Tempe Elite Cabinets provides professional wine & bar cabinets in Tempe, AZ for residential and commercial properties across the Salt River Valley. Wine and bar cabinets in Tempe come with one hard constraint that has nothing to do with cabinetry, and it's heat. A bottle stored at 85 degrees in a garage or an unconditioned pantry is slowly cooking, and no amount of walnut racking fixes that. So we design around a cooling unit first and build the pretty part around it.
Undercounter wine units are 15 or 24 inches wide, need front ventilation, and want an inch of clearance behind and above the chassis. We build the opening to the manufacturer's rough dimensions rather than to a nice round number, leave the toe area open so the compressor can breathe, and put the receptacle in the adjacent cabinet so the plug doesn't eat the clearance you just protected. Glass doors on a wine unit should be UV-treated, because a bar on a west wall in this town gets direct afternoon sun for half the year.
The design mistake is putting the wine wall on an exterior west or south-facing wall because that's where the blank drywall was. That wall is a heat sink from May through September, and the cabinet against it runs warmer than the room does. Interior wall, or a shared wall with a conditioned space, every time. Second mistake is decorative racking sized for standard Bordeaux bottles only, which means your Champagne and your fat Burgundies live on the counter.
Downtown, in the loft conversions near the Hayden Flour Mill and in the stacked condo buildings, the wet-versus-dry bar question gets decided by the building. Running a new drain through a floor plate in a shared stack means engineering, an HOA review and a plumber who works in that building. A dry bar with a beverage fridge and a proper glass rack takes a week and no approvals. We build a lot more dry bars here than wet ones, and honestly they get used the same.
On long-term storage: a cabinet is not a cellar. Wine wants 55 degrees and something like 60 to 70 percent humidity, and a Tempe house in June is running 10 to 20 percent. That dry air is what dries a cork from the outside, and a dried cork is how air gets in. If you're holding bottles for more than a year or two, that means a conditioned unit or a purpose-built room with a cooling system, not a beautiful open rack in the dining room. For everything you plan to drink this year, open racking is fine and looks better.
Cabinetry runs $2,500 for a simple dry bar to $12,000 and up for a full wall with a sink, glass storage and stone. The uncomfortable version: for most people, a $600 dual-zone undercounter unit set into an ordinary base cabinet beats a $9,000 display wall, because you drink what you buy and you don't need it lit from below to enjoy it.
Rustic alder and walnut are our usual picks for bar work, with the racking built as narrow solid members that can move without complaint and the wide back panels done as veneer over plywood. Finish is catalyzed conversion varnish, which shrugs off a spilled negroni. Install runs three to six days depending on plumbing and stone.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, full-overlay and inset doors, rigid thermofoil and veneer refacing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Tempe and nearby communities including Scottsdale, Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria.
What We Handle
Everything our wine & bar cabinets in Tempe covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of wine & bar cabinets work in Tempe, AZ. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- wine bar cabinets
- wet bar cabinetry
- dry bar cabinet ideas
- built in wine rack
- undercounter wine fridge cabinet
- home bar with sink
- wine cellar racking
- glass rack cabinet
- beverage center cabinet
- liquor cabinet with lock
- bar back shelving
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Tempe services.
Materials, equipment and how we do wine & bar cabinets
The difference between wine & bar cabinets that lasts and wine & bar cabinets that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with furniture-grade plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, frameless European construction, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Tempe job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of cabinet work in the Salt River Valley means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do wine & bar cabinets outside Tempe
Tempe Elite Cabinets covers Tempe and the surrounding communities of the Salt River Valley. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Scottsdale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 241,361
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Phoenix, AZ — Maricopa County, population 1,608,139
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Glendale, AZ — Maricopa County, population 248,325
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Peoria, AZ — Maricopa County, population 190,985
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Surprise, AZ — Maricopa County, population 143,148
- Wine & Bar Cabinets in Goodyear, AZ — Maricopa County, population 95,294
Start on the Tempe Elite Cabinets homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Tempe Chooses Tempe Elite Cabinets
- ✓Over 15 years refacing and building cabinetry across the Salt River Valley
- ✓Refacing quoted honestly when the boxes are sound, not upsold to a teardown
- ✓Frameless European construction to recover interior width in small kitchens
- ✓Soffit removal so uppers run to the ceiling in Tempe's older ranch houses
Every wine & bar cabinets project in Tempe gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free wine & bar cabinets free estimate in Tempe, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.