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Huntsville Elite Custom Cabinets

Whole-Home Cabinetry in Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Elite Custom Cabinets builds whole-home cabinetry in Huntsville, AL for new construction and major remodels, with over 20 years at the bench and more than 1,000 projects delivered across North Alabama. Kitchen, baths, closets, built-ins, laundry, and garage, out of one shop.

Here's the argument for doing it all at once, and it isn't convenience. Wood is a natural material. A walnut kitchen bought this year and walnut built-ins bought next year come from different logs and different finish batches, and they will not match. One program, one selection, one finish run is the only way a whole house actually looks like one house.

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Whole-home cabinetry in a Huntsville, AL custom build

Rooms in a Whole-Home Cabinetry Program

Every room below has its own page with the full detail. On a whole-home project they stop being separate jobs and become one program, designed together and priced together.

Kitchen

The biggest room in the program and the one that sets the species, the finish, and the hardware everything else follows.

custom kitchen cabinets

Built-Ins

Libraries, media walls, home offices, mudrooms, window seats. The rooms that make a house feel finished rather than furnished.

custom built-ins

Bathrooms

Primary, secondary, powder, and kids' baths. Moisture-resistant construction, and vanity heights set per bathroom rather than per house.

custom bathroom cabinets

Closets

Primary walk-in, reach-ins, linen, mudroom, and coat. Usually the last thing a builder thinks about and the first thing you notice missing.

custom closets

Countertops & Vanities

Templated off cabinets we set ourselves, so the tops land right. Wood and solid surface from our shop, stone through our fabricator.

countertops and vanities

Garage

Tool storage, workbenches, and overhead cabinets. The room that gets cut from every budget and then costs you the use of a whole bay.

custom garage cabinets

Whole-Home Cabinetry Projects We Take

New builds, gut remodels, phased programs, and additions. Each one has a different hard part.

New Construction

Custom homes, from the kitchen through to the garage. We come in at the design stage, before framing if we can, because the cheapest time to move a wall for a pantry is while it's still a line on a drawing. We work with your builder and architect, provide shop drawings for approval, and hold to the construction schedule.

Whole-House Remodels

A gut renovation where every room's cabinetry is getting replaced at once. Harder than new construction in one specific way: nothing in an existing house is square, so every run gets scribed. That's normal work for us and it's exactly why stock cabinets fail in a remodel.

Phased Whole-Home Projects

Kitchen this year, baths and closets next. Very common and completely reasonable, with one warning worth reading below: if the finish has to match across phases, we need to know that at the start, because wood bought a year apart will not match on its own.

Additions & Renovations

A new primary suite, a bonus room over the garage, an in-law addition. The cabinetry has to look like it's always been there, which means matching the trim, the species, and the sheen of a house that's been aging for twenty years.

One Standard, House-Wide

Six vendors gets you six houses. The things below are what people actually mean when they say a house feels considered, and every one of them is a decision made once instead of six times.

Built-in media wall matching the kitchen cabinetry species and finish

One species, one batch

This is the argument for doing the whole house at once. Wood is a natural material. Two walnut orders six months apart come from different logs, and they will not be the same color, no matter how good the shop is. Buying the whole program together means one selection, cut and finished as one run.

One finish schedule

Stain is mixed and sprayed in batches. A finish matched by eye a year later is a near-match, and a near-match reads as a mistake when the kitchen and the built-ins meet at a doorway. Doing it all at once means one batch across the house.

One hardware family

One hinge, one slide, one pull family, house-wide. Every drawer feels the same when you open it, and in ten years you're calling one manufacturer for one part rather than three.

One reveal

The gap around a door is a decision. When the kitchen, the baths, and the built-ins all come out of the same shop drawings, that gap is the same everywhere, and it's the detail people feel without being able to name it.

One design language

The door style and the trim profile carry from the kitchen through the mudroom and into the primary closet, so the house reads as one composition instead of six purchases from six vendors.

One punch list

At the end, one crew walks the whole house and fixes everything. Not three vendors each explaining that the problem is one of the other two.

Working With Your Builder & Architect

On a whole-home project we're one trade among many, on somebody else's schedule. Here's how we work, including the parts we hold firm on.

Shop drawings for approval

Your architect and builder get full shop drawings before we cut anything. Mark them up. It's free to move something on paper and expensive to move it after.

We hold the schedule

Cabinetry has a 6 to 10 week lead time from design approval, and on a whole house that clock has to start well before the drywall crew shows up. We tell your builder the date we need decisions locked, and we tell you if a material's lead time puts the schedule at risk.

Install after conditioned, never before

This is the one we hold firm on. Cabinets do not go into a house that isn't dried in with the HVAC running. Solid hardwood installed in an unconditioned Huntsville house in August will take on moisture, and when the air conditioning finally runs, panels shrink and joints open. We'd rather push a week than warranty a whole house.

Honest about allowances

If your builder gave you a cabinet allowance, bring us the number early. Allowances are usually written for stock or semi-custom, and custom cabinetry across a whole house will exceed most of them. That's a real conversation to have at design, not a surprise at the change order.

One contract, one crew

Our own in-house crew installs every room, never a subcontractor. Your builder deals with one shop for the whole cabinet scope rather than coordinating six vendors on six schedules.

Who we work with

Custom builders and homeowners who are in the design. We're not a tract sub and we don't chase bid-only subcontract work, so if the job is lowest-bidder by the linear foot, we're honestly not the right shop and we'd rather say so on the first call.

Why One Shop for the Whole House

The usual way is a kitchen from one vendor, closets from a closet company, and a vanity ordered off a website. It works, right up until you stand in the hallway and see all three at once.

The wood actually matches

One selection, one batch, one finish run. The only reliable way to get consistent color across an entire house.

One mobilization

One delivery, one install crew, one finish schedule. Six vendors means six deliveries and six chances for somebody to gouge a finished floor.

Nobody points at anybody

When one shop owns the kitchen, the tops, the baths, and the closets, there's no seam in the accountability either.

Priced as a program

We quote the whole scope up front so you can see the trade-offs across rooms instead of discovering the closet budget is gone.

Built to one standard

Plywood boxes, dovetailed drawers, Blum hardware, catalyzed finish. In every room, including the ones guests never see.

Your builder's life is easier

One point of contact, one schedule commitment, one punch list. Builders re-hire the sub who doesn't create work for them.

In-house crew installing whole-home cabinetry in a Huntsville build

Whole-Home Cabinetry Process

Four steps, and you approve the drawings and the payment schedule before we cut a single board.

  1. 1

    Free Consultation

    We visit your space, take precise measurements, discuss your needs, and explore design preferences.

  2. 2

    Detailed Quotes & Layouts

    Our designers create detailed plans showing exactly how your cabinets will look, with transparent pricing.

  3. 3

    Expert Fabrication

    Our craftsmen build your cabinets using premium hardwoods, precision joinery, and quality hardware.

  4. 4

    Professional Installation

    Our in-house team delivers and installs your cabinets with meticulous precision and attention to detail.

Whole-Home Cabinetry FAQs

What counts as a whole-home cabinetry project?
Any project where we're doing most or all of the cabinetry in a house rather than one room. Usually that's a new custom build or a gut remodel: kitchen, primary bath, secondary baths, powder room, laundry, mudroom, closets, built-ins, and often the garage. The point isn't the number of rooms. It's that the whole program gets designed together, cut from one material selection, finished in one batch, and installed by one crew.
Can I do the house in phases?
Yes, and plenty of people do. But here's the thing you need to know before you start, because it can't be fixed later. Wood is a natural material. If you buy a walnut kitchen this year and walnut built-ins next year, those come from different logs and different finish batches, and they will not match. If the finish has to carry across phases, tell us at the start and we'll select and set aside the material for the later phases up front. If we hear about it after the kitchen is done, we're honestly guessing at a match.
Do you work with builders and architects?
Yes, on custom homes. We provide shop drawings for approval, hold to the construction schedule, and coordinate the install sequence with the other trades. What we don't do is tract and bid-only subcontract work, so if your builder is shopping the cabinet package to the lowest number per linear foot, we're not the right shop and we'd tell you that on the first call rather than waste your time.
When in the build should cabinetry get ordered?
Earlier than most people expect. Lead time is 6 to 10 weeks from design approval, and on a whole house you're selecting material and finishes for a dozen rooms before that clock even starts. Practically, we want to be in conversation while the plans are still being drawn, and we want decisions locked before drywall. Cabinets are one of the longest-lead items in a house, and they're the item everybody remembers late.
Can cabinets be installed before the house is finished?
Not before it's dried in with the HVAC running, and this is the one thing we won't bend on. Solid hardwood is a moisture sponge. Install it in an unconditioned house during a Huntsville August, and when the air conditioning finally comes on, the wood gives up that moisture, panels shrink, and joints open across the whole house. We've seen it and it isn't repairable room by room. We'd rather push the install a week than hand you a house full of cabinetry that's going to move.
How much does whole-home cabinetry cost?
It's priced per project after we measure, because a whole-home program is the sum of its rooms and no two houses have the same list. What we can give you honestly is the components. Our cabinetry runs $600 to $900 per linear foot at entry level, $900 to $1,100 for most projects, $1,100 to $1,400 for premium, and $1,500 and up for highly customized. A custom kitchen averages $25,000 to $30,000 on its own, and a built-in project runs $15,000 to $20,000. We price the whole program up front so you can see the trade-offs between rooms rather than finding out the closets are gone.
My builder gave me a cabinet allowance. Will that cover it?
Probably not all of it, and you should hear that now rather than at a change order. Allowances are typically written against stock or semi-custom cabinetry, and custom work across a whole house will usually exceed one. That's not a reason to walk away. It's a reason to bring us the number early, so we can show you where the money actually matters, which rooms can take a simpler spec, and what the real gap is. We'd rather have that conversation at design than have you discover it in month six.
Can you match cabinetry to an existing house?
For additions and renovations, yes, and it's most of the work in an older Huntsville home. Bring us a door or an offcut of trim. We'll match the profile in our shop, and if the molding is out of production we can have a knife ground to match it. Finish gets hand-matched to a sample from your house rather than a fan deck number, because twenty-year-old trim has aged and a fresh chip won't be the same color.

Planning a Build or a Whole-House Remodel?

Bring us the plans, even if they're still being drawn. We'll walk the house room by room, price the whole program up front, and give you an honest number. Whole-home projects are priced per project, with cabinetry generally running $900 to $1,100 per linear foot. Built and installed by our own Huntsville shop and crew.

  • Free design consultation
  • One shop for every room
  • Shop drawings for your builder
  • Our own installation crew

Serving Huntsville, AL, Madison, AL, Athens, AL, Decatur, AL, Triana, AL, and the surrounding Madison, Limestone, and Morgan County communities.

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