New Orleans Elite Cabinets provides professional custom kitchen cabinets in New Orleans, LA for residential and commercial properties across Greater New Orleans. Custom kitchen cabinets in a New Orleans house have to solve two problems at once: the humidity, and the fact that very little in an older house here is level. We design, build, and install full custom kitchens from 3/4-inch moisture-resistant furniture-grade plywood, then shim and scribe them into rooms that have been quietly settling on soft ground for a century.
Start with the box, because every other decision rides on it. Plywood holds a screw, keeps its shape through a Gulf Coast summer, and can be taken apart and re-hung twenty years from now.
Particleboard is wood fiber and glue pressed into a panel, and the moment moisture reaches an unsealed edge it swells and never comes back. That is not a hypothetical here.
Our standard carcass is 3/4-inch plywood with dado-and-glue joinery, a full plywood back instead of a thin panel stapled into a rabbet, and shelves in the same material so they do not bow under a stack of plates.
Then construction style, which decides both how the kitchen reads and how much of it you can reach. Framed cabinets carry a face frame and suit a center-hall or a raised double.
Frameless European construction gives you noticeably more usable interior width and a flatter, modern face. Full-overlay doors leave a narrow reveal.
Inset doors sit flush inside the frame, look superb, and cost more because the tolerances are unforgiving — and in a house whose walls move with the seasons, inset work needs a shop that will come back and adjust it.
Species and finish get picked from real samples in your own light rather than off a screen. Painted doors are sprayed in catalyzed conversion varnish in a booth, not brushed with an enamel that chips the first time a ring catches it.
Stained white oak, maple, cherry, and walnut get a fully sealed, hand-rubbed finish. Solid-wood raised panels move seasonally more in this climate than they would in a dry one, so we build the movement in rather than pretending wood is stable.
Installation is where a custom kitchen is won or lost, and it is the step a low bid quietly skips.
Pier-and-beam floors around here are rarely flat, plaster walls are rarely plumb, and a run set straight against a bowed wall will show a quarter-inch gap at eye level for the rest of your life.
We laser-level, shim off the high point, cut fillers, and scribe the finished ends to the actual wall profile. Then we come back a few weeks later and re-align the doors once the house and the cabinets have reached an understanding.
Honest budget: a full custom kitchen in plywood with dovetail drawers and Blum hardware generally runs from the mid-teens into the $40,000s depending on size, door style, and finish. You get it itemized, so you can see what each choice actually costs.
With 15+ years of experience, our insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — moisture-resistant plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, full-overlay and inset doors, framed and frameless European construction, catalyzed conversion varnish — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve New Orleans and nearby communities including Metairie, Kenner, Marrero, Terrytown.
What We Handle
Everything our custom kitchen cabinets in New Orleans covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of custom kitchen cabinets work in New Orleans, LA. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- custom kitchen cabinets
- kitchen cabinet design
- framed and frameless cabinets
- full-overlay cabinet doors
- inset cabinet doors
- shaker kitchen cabinets
- painted kitchen cabinets
- white oak and maple cabinets
- plywood cabinet boxes
- dovetail drawer boxes
- kitchen cabinet replacement
- moisture-resistant cabinet construction
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our New Orleans services.
Materials, equipment and how we do custom kitchen cabinets
The difference between custom kitchen cabinets that lasts and custom kitchen cabinets that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with moisture-resistant plywood boxes, solid maple dovetail drawers, Blum and Grass soft-close hardware, full-overlay and inset doors, 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 New Orleans 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 Greater New Orleans 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 custom kitchen cabinets outside New Orleans
New Orleans Elite Cabinets covers New Orleans and the surrounding communities of Greater New Orleans. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Metairie, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 143,507
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Kenner, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 66,448
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Marrero, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 32,382
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Terrytown, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 25,278
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Harvey, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 22,236
- Custom Kitchen Cabinets in Estelle, LA — Jefferson Parish, population 17,952
Start on the New Orleans Elite Cabinets homepage for a free estimate, or call (833) 632-3603 and describe the job.
Why New Orleans Chooses New Orleans Elite Cabinets
- ✓Over 15 years building custom cabinetry across Greater New Orleans
- ✓3/4-inch moisture-resistant furniture-grade plywood boxes, never particleboard
- ✓Solid maple dovetail drawers on full-extension Blum undermount slides
- ✓Catalyzed conversion varnish sprayed in our own booth, not brushed on site
The standards behind custom kitchen cabinets
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The custom kitchen cabinets work we do in New Orleans follows published industry standards: KCMA runs the ANSI/KCMA A161.1 cabinet performance certification, and National Kitchen & Bath Association publishes the kitchen planning guidelines. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every custom kitchen cabinets project in New Orleans 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 (833) 632-3603 for a free custom kitchen cabinets free estimate in New Orleans, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.