Custom Cabinets and Built-In Storage in New Orleans, LA

Custom kitchen cabinetry typically runs $850 to $1,600 per linear foot installed in the New Orleans market. Door style, finish, interior hardware and whether the run goes all the way to a 12 foot ceiling move the number most. Built-ins and closets are priced by the unit rather than by linear foot. We quote from measured drawings rather than square foot estimates.

In most New Orleans homes, yes, because the homes were not built to stock dimensions. Ceilings run 11 to 14 feet, walls are out of square, and stock boxes leave dead soffit space that reads as unfinished. The bigger factor is humidity. Particleboard boxes fail here in a way plywood carcasses do not.

Plywood carcasses with sealed edges and a catalysed finish. Particleboard and unsealed MDF absorb moisture and swell. Gulf Coast humidity combined with power outages during hurricane season puts cabinetry through unconditioned cycles that most budget materials are not rated for, and the failure shows first at the toe kick and sink base.

Yes. We reproduce original casing, crown and baseboard profiles so new cabinetry and built-ins read as period correct rather than obviously new. On Garden District and Uptown projects this usually means matching cypress profiles and, where possible, sourcing salvage stock from local architectural suppliers.

Plan on 6 to 12 weeks from approved shop drawings to installed. Fabrication is the bulk of that and installation runs 3 to 10 days. If cabinetry is part of a larger renovation we sequence it after mechanicals and flooring, so nothing sits exposed to construction dust and moisture while other trades are still working.

Yes, and it is one of the most common requests we get in Irish Channel and Bywater shotguns. The design problem is finding storage without shortening a room or blocking the straight line circulation a shotgun depends on. Under stair volume in camelbacks and the depth between chimney breasts are usually the best candidates.

Yes. As a full service general contractor we handle cabinetry alongside countertops, plumbing, electrical and finish work under one contract, so there is no coordination gap between trades. That matters most on kitchen projects, where cabinet, counter and appliance tolerances all have to line up on the same day.

Sometimes, and we will tell you honestly when it is not worth attempting. Matching a factory finish that has aged for a decade is difficult, and a near miss looks worse than a deliberate contrast. Where the existing boxes are sound we often refinish the whole run rather than chase a match on new work alone.

Cabinetry is delivered under our general contract, which means we own the schedule, the tolerances and the warranty rather than handing you a separate supplier to chase. That is the practical difference between buying cabinets and having cabinetry built as part of a project.

We work throughout Uptown, the Garden District, Irish Channel, Mid-City, Esplanade Ridge, Lakeview, Marigny and Bywater, plus Old Metairie, Metairie and the Northshore. Our office is on Washington Avenue in New Orleans.