New Orleans Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet services in Arabi, LA — St. Bernard Parish, population 4,533. From custom kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to commercial cabinetry & millwork, our insured team serves Arabi homes and businesses.
Arabi property owners near Friscoville Avenue, the Lower Ninth Ward, Bayou Bienvenue count on New Orleans Elite Cabinets for custom cabinets in Arabi. We bring the same cabinet work we are known for in New Orleans to every job in Arabi, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (833) 632-3603 for a free cabinet estimate in Arabi, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Cabinet in Arabi, LA
Arabi is a census-designated place of 4,533 people on the east bank of the Mississippi in St. Bernard Parish, wedged between the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and Chalmette.
It grew up in the nineteenth century as Stockyard Landing, a name it earned honestly: an 1880s law barred slaughterhouses from inside New Orleans, so the stockyards moved just across the parish line, and remnants of the trade are still buried in the back yards of Old Arabi.
Friscoville Avenue was developed in 1907 and, being outside Orleans Parish and easy to reach on the Canal streetcar line, became a gambling strip with about five halls in a single block. Katrina's surge in 2005 put more than twenty feet of water over the community.
Then in 2022 Arabi was hit twice more: an EF3 tornado on 22 March, which had formed near Gretna and did widespread damage along Friscoville Avenue before crossing into New Orleans East, and an EF2 on 14 December that struck many of the same blocks.
Old Arabi has some of the best-preserved late nineteenth and early twentieth century housing in the parish, and it has also been rebuilt more times than anywhere else we work. Both facts shape the job.
When a shotgun or a raised cottage here needs a new kitchen, it is genuinely custom work: plaster walls that bow, no square corner in the room, ceilings well over nine feet, and original trim worth keeping.
We build the carcasses in three-quarter-inch moisture-resistant plywood with dado-and-glue joinery, then scribe the finished ends to the actual wall profile and shim off the high point of a floor that has been settling on soft ground since the stockyards were running.
Cabinets get run to the ceiling where the height allows, because in a room this tall a 30-inch upper looks stranded. Solid-wood raised panels move seasonally more here than they would in a dry climate, so we build that movement in.
And we come back a few weeks after install to re-align the doors, which in this neighborhood is not optional.
Cabinet work we do in Arabi, LA
New Orleans Elite Cabinets covers the same range of work in Arabi that we do in New Orleans — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Laundry Room Cabinets — Laundry room cabinets are the fastest and cheapest room in the house to fix, and most laundry rooms around here are one wire shelf away from being a genuinely good workspace. We build laundry cabinetry with a folding counter, real detergent storage, somewhere to hang things, and hampers that live inside the casework instead of on the floor.
- Pantry Systems — Pantry systems decide whether a kitchen gains or loses about a third of its practical capacity, and most builder pantries are deep fixed shelves where groceries go to be forgotten. We design pantry storage around one principle: if you cannot see it without moving something else, you do not really own it.
- Cabinet Refacing, Refinishing & Painting — Cabinet refacing, refinishing, and painting are three routes to the same destination, and which one suits your kitchen depends on the condition of the boxes rather than on how tired the doors look. We assess the carcasses first and tell you honestly which route makes sense, including the times when the answer is none of them.
- Cabinet Hardware & Organizers — Cabinet hardware and interior organizers are the cheapest upgrade in a kitchen and the one that changes daily life the most, which is a strange pairing most people only discover after spending thirty thousand dollars on the cabinets themselves. We install and retrofit hardware and organizers across Greater New Orleans, including on cabinetry we did not build.
- Soft-Close & Pull-Out Systems — Soft-close and pull-out systems are the mechanical difference between cabinetry that feels expensive and cabinetry that only looks it. They are also the difference between hardware that still works in twenty years and hardware that gets sloppy in three.
- Countertops — Countertops are the surface you touch more than any other in the house, and picking one is mostly a question of how much maintenance you are honestly willing to do. We template, fabricate, and install quartz, granite, solid surface, and butcher block, and we set them on cabinetry that has been leveled properly so the seams stay tight instead of opening up by Christmas.
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About Arabi, LA — and why local matters here
Arabi sits in St. Bernard Parish with a population of roughly 4,533, close enough to New Orleans that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Friscoville Avenue, the Lower Ninth Ward, Bayou Bienvenue.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Arabi properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of St. Bernard Parish, and a cabinet contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Arabi
Call (833) 632-3603 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Arabi, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
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Popular services in Arabi: Custom Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities.
We also serve Slidell, LA and Greater New Orleans.