Cerritos Custom Cabinets: Custom Cabinet Maker for Homes & Businesses in Cerritos, CA
Cerritos Custom Cabinets builds true custom cabinets — measured on site, designed around your layout, and fabricated to fit the exact wall — as the trusted residential and commercial cabinet maker in Cerritos, CA. Stock big-box cabinets are the opposite: mass-produced boxes sold in fixed 3-inch width increments, which is why they leave filler strips, dead corners, and gaps wherever a room refuses to cooperate. In Cerritos, rooms often refuse — most of the city went up between 1963 and the early 1970s, and a large share of local kitchens still carry original or aging tract-home cabinetry that off-the-shelf sizing was never meant to fix.
From one local shop we measure, design, fabricate, and install, so the crew that templates your kitchen is accountable for the cabinets that go into it. We build kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, closets, built-ins, and commercial casework for homes, offices, and storefronts — cabinetry meant to outlast the house around it, not get swapped out in ten years. That matters here, where homeowners invest in permanent upgrades rather than disposable fixes: median household income in the city is $133,953. Ready to price custom cabinets in Cerritos? Call (562) 262-5720 or request a free on-site design consultation today.
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Residential Custom Cabinet Design & Installation
Custom Kitchen Cabinets & Installation
Kitchens are our flagship work: we design, build, and install fully custom cabinetry under one roof. Most clients choose shaker doors in full-overlay construction, and every box we build is cabinet-grade plywood, stronger than MDF and unbothered by kitchen humidity. Soft-close hinges and full-extension drawer slides are standard, not upgrades. Fully custom kitchens are quoted from your kitchen's measured footage — the full ranges are in our pricing section below — and once your cabinets leave our shop, kitchen cabinet installation in Cerritos usually takes a single day, or three to five for large or complex layouts. We level and scribe every run to your walls, so the reveal lines stay true.
Kitchen Island Cabinet Builds
We design kitchen island cabinets for the room they will live in, sized to preserve the 36" of clearance an island needs to function. Each build pairs island base cabinets with details a prefab box can't offer: seating overhangs, waterfall or panel-ready ends, appliance and microwave bases, integrated outlets. Custom island work costs several times the $100-to-$300-per-foot stock bracket, and it buys an island built once, for one kitchen.
Pantry Cabinet Design & Installation
We build floor-to-ceiling pantry cabinets in Cerritos that run all the way to the ceiling line — no dead soffit space like stock 84" or 90" tall cabinets leave behind. Each unit is fitted with roll-out trays, adjustable shelving, and door-mounted racks sized to what you actually store. Most pantry projects land between $300 and $5,000 depending on size and fit-out; priced add-ons like a pull-out spice rack run $200–$500.
Custom Bathroom Vanities & Cabinets
Our custom bathroom cabinets are built to your bath's actual footprint, not the 30/36/48-inch jumps stock vanities force on you. Every box is moisture-resistant plywood, since MDF swells and crumbles at the edges when it gets wet. The lineup covers floating and comfort-height vanities, linen towers, and tiered drawers with pull-out organizers and in-drawer charging stations, topped with quartz cut for undermount sinks. Single-sink vanities start around $700; large primary-bath builds reach $15,000.
Custom Closet Cabinets & Organizers
Our custom closet cabinets in Cerritos are furniture-grade cabinetry, not the wire-and-melamine modular kits closet franchises assemble. For walk-ins we build double-hang rods, drawer stacks, shoe shelving, hamper pull-outs, and freestanding closet islands; for reach-ins, adjustable shelf-pin shelving that reconfigures as your wardrobe changes. Every carcass is cut in our shop and scribed to your walls, so the closet reads as built-in millwork rather than a bolt-on system.
Built-In Entertainment Centers
A television is a fixed dimension, so we design around it. Each project starts from your exact screen, soundbar, and receiver measurements — custom built in cabinets with ventilated equipment bays, routed cable management, and bridge cabinets spanning a floor-to-ceiling media wall, concealing cords the way freestanding furniture never can. Because built-ins integrate directly into the home's structure, they combine open shelving, drawers, and closed storage in one piece and price like any fully custom build.
Custom Built-In Bookshelves
Library walls and office shelving from our shop integrate directly into the wall structure, mixing open display shelves with closed cabinet bases. Every unit runs to ceiling height with a crown tie-in and a baseboard scribe, eliminating the gaps freestanding bookcases leave. Adjustable shelves, face-frame surrounds, window-seat flanking units, even a rolling library ladder — all shop-built. Homeowners pricing built in bookshelves in Cerritos ask one question: do they add value? Yes — built-ins are a recognized add-value feature.
Garage Cabinets & Storage Systems
Garage storage earns its keep only when it fits the room: we design around your garage's actual wall lengths and water-heater and panel clearances, not a shipped kit. Wall-hung cabinets mount off the slab to keep the floor dry and sweepable, joined by workbench runs, tall storage lockers, and overhead storage in melamine or thermofoil utility finishes. Drawers ride heavy-duty slides rated to 100 pounds. Most custom garage cabinets in Cerritos run $1,000 to $6,000.
Laundry Room Cabinet Installation
Our laundry room cabinets for Cerritos homes squeeze utility out of every inch of a small room: over-machine uppers sized to your actual washer and dryer heights, 24"-deep wall cabinets, a folding counter, hamper pull-outs, a drying rod, and a tall broom cabinet beside a utility sink base. The boxes are plywood, which resists laundry humidity where MDF swells. Typical laundry cabinet setups run $250 to $2,000 depending on scope.
Home Office Cabinets & Built-In Desks
Working from home stuck around, so we build the office into the room: a floating desktop at your exact height and depth, letter and legal file drawers, cable grommets, a printer pull-out, and uppers with doors, all one unit with the storage wall. Stock RTA office bases come fixed at 29.5 inches tall with no customization; ours are built to you. Custom built-in office runs carry the same run-length pricing as our kitchen work, dual workstations included.
Murphy Bed Cabinet Installation
Most Murphy bed sellers are showrooms — some advertise 15+ floor models you pick from as-is. Ours goes in as cabinetry instead: a queen or full wall bed on a piston lift, wrapped in surround cabinetry — side towers, a fold-down desk, an upper bridge — scribed to your walls and finished to match the room. A murphy bed cabinet in Cerritos should be a built storage wall, not a standalone box.
Shaker & Modern Cabinet Styles
Most of the shaker kitchen cabinets Cerritos homeowners order from us are painted five-piece doors, and we build them in paint-grade maple because it paints smoothly where oak grain telegraphs through. Prefer cleaner lines? We run slim-shaker and slab flat-panel doors on frameless Euro boxes for a modern look, and raised-panel rail-and-stile doors on face-frame cabinets, inset or full-overlay, for traditional kitchens.
Commercial Cabinets & Casework Fabrication
Office Cabinets & Custom Reception Desks
For offices needing commercial cabinets in Cerritos, we cover the whole front and back of house: custom office cabinets, reception desks with transaction counters, locking lateral files, storage walls, and HPL/TFL laminate casework matched to your brand colors. Every reception desk we build includes an ADA counter section — a 36-inch-high stretch at least 36 inches long for parallel approach — with wire management routed before installation. Every project is scoped and quoted from your floor plan before we cut a panel.
Dental & Medical Office Cabinets
Exam room casework, dental operatory cabinets, and nurse-station millwork leave our shop built around infection-control surfaces: nonporous HPL and TFL laminates, stainless components, and antimicrobial laminate to cut contamination risk. Locking medication storage, sink casework with knee clearance, and heavy-duty hinges and slides rated for clinical duty cycles come standard, and exam-room lines can be built ADA-compliant. Where national suppliers ship catalog medical office cabinets, we measure your suite and fabricate each run to fit the room.
ADA-Compliant Cabinetry
Most shops retrofit catalog boxes; we build ADA compliant cabinets to the 2010 ADA Standards from the first cut. That means work surfaces set between 28" and 34" above the finish floor per §902.3. Sink bases hold a 34" maximum rim height with open knee and toe clearance, using removable fronts we finish to match. We also build 9"-high by 6"-deep toe kicks (double the typical 4.5"), keep shelving within the 48" reach range, and fit loop pulls operable with one hand.
Break Room & Employee Kitchen Cabinets
Break room cabinets should be complete kitchenette runs, not freestanding storage: base cabinets with drawers, a sink base, uppers, and a continuous countertop with backsplash, all sized to the tenant space. Our laminate casework and durable commercial hinges stand up to daily coffee-and-lunch traffic and wipe clean fast. Where ADA applies, we hold employee kitchenette work surfaces to a 34-inch maximum with accessible counter sections per §902.
Retail Display Cases & Store Fixtures
We design custom display cases for retail spaces around your merchandise and floor plan, not from a catalog page. We fabricate showcases and cash wrap counters with tempered glass panels over high-pressure laminate carcasses, then add LED strip or puck lighting, locking sliders, and slatwall millwork where the layout calls for it. With Los Cerritos Center anchoring the city's retail base, we design fixtures to match your brand, then install after hours so the store keeps trading.
Commercial Millwork & Tenant Improvement Casework
As a commercial millwork company, we fabricate architectural millwork and casework packages for tenant improvement projects — reception desks, break rooms, retail fixtures, and health-code restaurant cabinetry. We produce submittals and shop drawings to AWI standards, coordinate directly with your GC's schedule, and send install crews that hold their dates. Typical commercial projects in our metro run $5,000 to $30,000, and our two-county reach covers commercial corridors across Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Cabinet Refacing, Repair & Restoration Services
Kitchen Cabinet Refacing
If your cabinet boxes are sound, cabinet refacing in Cerritos typically runs $4,000–$9,500 versus $10,000–$25,000 or more for full replacement. We swap every door and drawer face, wrap the boxes in wood veneer or RTF skins, and add soft-close hinges — done in 3–5 days instead of a 6–12 week remodel. Because we build new cabinets too, we'll tell you straight when refacing is the wrong call — start with a box assessment, and skip the search for kitchen cabinet refacing near me.
Cabinet Refinishing & Painting
Sometimes the boxes are fine and the finish isn't. We refinish and repaint existing cabinets: degrease, sand, grain-fill oak where the pores show, then spray catalyzed conversion varnish on doors pulled back to our shop, a coating far more durable than a rolled-on DIY job. Professional cabinet painting for Cerritos kitchens typically runs $300 to $1,000, and refinishing sits at the most affordable tier below refacing or replacement. Full color changes welcome; keep your layout, lose the dated finish.
Cabinet Repair & Restoration
Not every tired kitchen needs replacing. Our shop repairs what handymen patch over: hinge replacement and realignment, drawer-slide swaps, water-damage repair, door re-veneering, structural re-gluing, and touch-up work color-matched to the original species and finish. Local estimates for cabinet repair in Cerritos typically run from $1,126 into the $1,700 range, and repair is the honest first call — we quote restoration before we ever sell replacement, recommending new cabinetry only when the carcasses are beyond saving.
Cabinet Door & Drawer Front Replacement
When your cabinet carcasses are still solid but the fronts are dated, we build replacement cabinet doors and drawer fronts to your exact openings in solid maple, red oak, or paint-grade stock, typically $20 to $80 per piece depending on size, material, and style. Unlike mail-order door mills, we handle the measuring, hinge boring, overlay matching, and color match to your existing boxes, then hang every piece ourselves.
Custom Millwork & Woodwork
Cabinet boxes are only part of what leaves our shop. We fabricate architectural millwork and one-off furniture pieces — mantels, wainscoting, floating shelves, built-in benches, radius work, and full trim and molding packages — cut and joined to the same standards as our cabinetry, with stain matching to blend new wood into old. Searching for custom woodwork near me? Cerritos even trains the trade locally: Cerritos College runs a dedicated woodworking program in furniture making and cabinetmaking.
Cabinet Hardware Installation
Hardware goes on before we leave. Cabinet hardware installation is the finishing step of every project we build, never a separate job. We drill each knob and pull with a jig, so placement stays identical across all 40 fronts, whether you pick 3-inch, 96mm, or 128mm center-to-center bar pulls, backplates, or a soft-close hinge retrofit. Standalone installers charge $100 to $300 for a simple pulls job; with us it is included.
Why We're the Best Custom Cabinet Company in Cerritos
Search "cabinet company near me" and you'll mostly find wholesalers and big-box resellers. We're a different animal: a licensed CSLB contractor with our own local fabrication shop, so the people who design your cabinets also build and install them. One accountability chain, no subcontracted handoffs. Our boxes are 3/4-inch plywood, never particleboard, the material line that separates true custom work from stock cabinetry. Casework is CNC-cut for tight tolerances, joined with dados and dowels instead of staples, and finished with soft-close Blum hinges and slides on every door and drawer. And unlike most shops, we put our workmanship warranty in writing: five years, signed before we start.
What Does Our Custom Cabinet Process Involve?
Working with a cabinet maker in Cerritos should follow a proven sequence. Ours runs about six weeks from design approval to finished cabinets, and installation itself takes about a day, three to five for complex kitchens.
- Free in-home consultation: we walk the space, talk layout and materials, and put a firm quote in writing.
- Laser measurement: precise on-site dimensions, because measurement error is the expensive mistake in cabinetry.
- 3D renderings and shop drawings: you approve exact elevations before anything gets cut.
- Fabrication and finishing: your cabinets are built and finished in our shop.
- Installation and punch list: we set, level, and adjust every unit, then check each detail with you.
Which Wood Species & Materials Do We Use?
Our shop stocks maple, oak, cherry, walnut, and hickory, plus paint-grade hardwoods. Maple's fine, even grain takes paint and stain cleanly, which makes it the best wood for kitchen cabinets in most painted-Shaker projects. Oak is extremely durable but its grain telegraphs through paint, so we reserve it for stained work; hickory is the toughest common species for heavy daily use, and cherry and walnut carry high-end stained pieces. For tighter budgets, birch, alder, or poplar make clean paint-grade frames. Boxes are always 3/4" plywood for screw-holding and moisture resistance; MDF appears only in painted door panels, where its grain-free surface keeps paint from cracking.
Our Cabinet Installation Process
In-Home Design Consultation & Measurement
Looking for cabinet installation near me? It starts with a free in-home consultation. We measure the room, checking walls for square and level, because 1960s Cerritos framing rarely is. You approve a 3D design and quote before we cut anything.
Custom Fabrication in Our Cerritos Shop
Every cabinet is built in our Cerritos shop, not imported as an RTA flat-pack. We CNC-cut panels, assemble with dado joinery, spray finishes in-house, and inspect each piece before delivery.
How Long Do Custom Cabinets Take to Make?
Most custom cabinet projects run 6 to 12 weeks from design approval to install day. Paint-grade shaker moves fastest; exotic species, glazed or cured finishes, and whole-house scopes stretch the schedule. We confirm your date at deposit.
What You Need to Do Before We Arrive
Clear your counters and empty the cabinets, arrange appliance disconnects, and give us parking access with pets secured. We schedule demo with you in advance, and countertop templating happens after the boxes go in.
Final Walkthrough, Hardware Adjustment & Cleanup
We finish by adjusting every hinge and slide, aligning door reveals, completing touch-ups and the punch list, then hauling away debris and handing off your warranty. A clean site and even reveals are what professional looks like.
How Much Do Custom Cabinets Cost in Cerritos?
Custom cabinetry is priced by the linear foot, and a 20-foot Cerritos kitchen typically lands between $10,000 and $24,000 installed. Your exact custom cabinets cost depends on materials, size, and finish. The breakdowns below show where the money goes.
Custom Cabinet Cost Per Linear Foot
Most of our fully custom builds land between $500 and $1,200 per linear foot, installed. Species drives the spread: birch and maple run $300–$400 per foot, cherry $500–$700, walnut $700 and up. When comparing custom cabinets price per linear foot, confirm quotes include installation — ours do.
Cabinet Refacing Cost
Cabinet refacing cost varies with door count and skin material: most projects run $4,000–$9,500, and a standard 10x10 kitchen typically lands between $7,000 and $12,000. Some national averages run higher, near $15,000, so we quote per project after counting your doors and choosing veneer or laminate skins. Either way, refacing runs 50–70% less than full replacement.
Custom vs Semi-Custom vs Stock Cabinets
Stock boxes run $60–$300 per linear foot in fixed 3-inch increments — filler strips hide the gaps. Semi-custom ($150–$900/LF) modifies a factory line's doors, sizes, and finishes. Weighing semi custom vs custom cabinets? Custom ($100–$1,500/LF) is built from scratch to your walls: no fillers, no dead corners.
What Changes the Price (Wood Species, Finish, Hardware, Layout)
Wood species moves the price most: birch or maple runs $300–$400 per linear foot, white oak $400–$600, walnut $700 and up. Painted finishes cost more than stained; specialty hardware costs more than our standard soft-close. Layout complexity (corners, islands, tall runs) and fittings like a $200–$500 pull-out spice rack add from there.
Commercial Cabinet & Casework Pricing
Commercial casework packages typically run $5,000 to $30,000. Scope drives the number more than linear footage: laminate grade (HPL or TFL), ADA counter sections, and install phasing around other trades all move the bid. Send us your plans and we'll price from shop drawings.
Proudly Serving Cerritos and Nearby Cities
Our shop sits in Cerritos, right on the seam between Los Angeles and Orange County, and we build and install on both sides of the line. Cerritos borders Artesia, Bellflower, Lakewood, Norwalk, and La Mirada on the LA County side, and Buena Park and La Palma across the county line. We also handle projects in Cypress, Downey, Long Beach, Anaheim, and Whittier. If you're searching for custom cabinets near me anywhere along the 91, 605, or 5 corridors, we're a short drive away for the in-home measure and the install.
FAQs
How much does it cost to get a custom cabinet made?
Most custom cabinet projects run $2,808 to $12,980, averaging about $7,472 nationally, or $500 to $1,200 per linear foot installed. Your final price depends on materials, door style, and total linear footage.
Will Home Depot do custom cabinets?
Yes, but only semi-custom. Its Home Decorators Cabinetry program configures factory-built plywood boxes in preset door styles and sizes, ordered online. True custom means we measure your kitchen and build every cabinet to fit it exactly.
Is it cheaper to build or buy a cabinet?
Yes, buying stock cabinets is cheaper: $60 to $300 per linear foot versus $100 to $1,500 for custom. The trade-off is fit and materials: filler strips and particleboard boxes instead of the plywood boxes we build to your walls.
Are custom cabinets worth the money?
Yes, if you're staying in your home, working with an awkward layout, or want plywood boxes that last decades instead of stock's shorter-lived particleboard. For a flip or rental, stock cabinets make more financial sense.
Do custom cabinets increase home value?
Yes. Custom cabinets are a permanent upgrade that stays with the house, and kitchens sell homes. Buyers notice solid built-ins and organized storage the way they never notice furniture that leaves with you.
Is it cheaper to reface cabinets or replace them?
Yes. Refacing typically costs 50–70% less than a full replacement of the same kitchen. It only works when your cabinet boxes are structurally sound, so we assess the carcasses before recommending either route.
What are the three grades of cabinets?
Stock, semi-custom, and custom. Stock is mass-produced in fixed sizes, semi-custom modifies a factory line, and custom is built from scratch to your space — with prices climbing from roughly $60 per linear foot to $1,500.
What makes a cabinet ADA compliant?
An ADA compliant cabinet keeps counters at 34 inches max, provides 27-inch knee clearance and a 9-inch by 6-inch toe kick, places storage within the 15–48 inch reach range, and uses loop pulls operable without tight grasping.