Cabinets for Silicon Valley and the California Central Coast
Silicon Valley Cabinets are high-quality cabinets manufactured right here in Santa Cruz, California since 1995. Our free browser design tool allows you to design a kitchen, bathroom or garage without installing software! Design and install yourself for substantial savings, or let us do it all for you. The choice is yours!
Design your own cabinets, or let us!
Use our free, easy browser-based cabinet design tool and design yourself. Or, let us design it for you. [read more]
Install yourself, or let us
Installing your own cabinets can save a lot of money but it isn't for everyone. We can help! When designing your cabinets, simple select "Installed" and we will install them for you. Same for design - do it yourself or let us help.
Made in Santa Cruz, CA
Silicon Valley Cabinets are made right here in Santa Cruz, California. As a division of Elements Manufacturing, we have been building and installing commercial and residential cabinets since 1995. We live here, we work here and we care about our community and the success of your project. Learn more about us.
Video: making cabinets
We have been making great cabinets in Santa Cruz, California since 1995. Watch this short video to see how we go from design to CNC machining to create perfect cabinets!
Countertops!
Want an attractive, durable, affordable countertop option? Check out ThinScape by Wilsonart.
We can also provide you with laminate or butcher block countertops. Quartz, stone and Corian are also available from our stone partners.
Fully-assembled, any size
Our advanced cloud-based cabinet design software allows you to create cabinets of any size. Nothing to buy and easy to learn. We assemble the cabinets for you and install if you choose. Click here to begin your design, or contact us and let us design for you.
Garage cabinets
What's more fun than designing good storage and work areas for the garage? Design it and install it yourself, or let us help! Get the functionality that suits your working style. We can deliver and/or install your cabinets.
High-tech melamine
Melamine has come a long way. Today's "thermo fused laminates" (TFL) melamines are durable and the colors and textures are better than many expensive laminates. And, TFL price points are much lower! Textured melamines look great, are very durable and competitively priced. Doors come in modern slab and traditional shaker styles.
Beautiful cabinets
Beauty and durability are important qualities in cabinets and countertops. Choosing quality components can give a lifetime of functional millwork that always look great. Check out our cabinet specifications (materials).
Many colors and textures
Silicon Valley Cabinets are built with quality materials and feature doors and drawer fronts by Wilsonart. Click here to see the beautiful melamine colors and textures of the Wilsonart Lujo series for your doors, drawer fronts, edges and finished ends. We even offer matching colors for base trim and crown moldings.
Panel processing
We offer panel processing (aka component manufacture) for cabinet shops, closet installers and panel providers. Please visit our panel processing site to learn more about ways we can reduce your costs and simplify your next job.
Closets!
Design your own closets! You can even mix closets and cabinets in our custom design tool. Click here to see amazing closets in various colors, shapes and sizes. We work with Closet Magician for design and installation.
News and jobs by Silicon Valley Cabinets
Preview your job: shop drawings
Before we build anything it’s important that we are all in agreement about what we’re building. That’s why our drafting team draws every job to share with you. This gives you a chance to review and, if necessary, make revisions. We also use these drawings to optimize all the cabinet parts before we send them…
Closets!
Feeling brave? Design your own closet! Or, let us help you with it. It’s a bit trickier than designing your own cabinets because closets share vertical uprights. This means you have to add a left, center, or right vertical, then add a shoe rack or hanging rack, then repeat. Build from left to right makes…
Walnut with Corian tops
This beautiful kitchen was designed by the homeowner using materials not found in our design tool. This is not uncommon – the design tool is a great starting place for fast, easy, affordable jobs but sometimes you want go go big. In this case, the client chose walnut veneer with solid-surface surround countertops, a beautiful,…
Home office in Los Altos
This Los Altos home has a large, comfortable den that will soon double as a home office. A wall of cabinets and countertops will make for efficient storage while the opposite corner has a built-in desk and rolling “map island” (as we like to call it). The island is on wheels and has a flip-up…
Emily Henderson explains – what to do with that awkward space above your cabinets?
Style by Emily Henderson has some fun ideas about what you can do with the space above your upper cabinets. One thing we do not recommend: taking your uppers all the way to the ceiling. One problem that can occur: if the ceiling is not perfect, cabinet doors can actually rub on the ceiling. A…
Woodwork Institute: Surface Terminologies
The Woodwork Institute is a national organization whose primary purpose is to ensure excellence and craftsmanship in woodwork. The WI collaborates with the Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada to jointly sponsor the North American Architectural Woodwork Standards (NAAWS). Architects and millwork firms rely on this proven standard as the basis for quality architectural millwork.…
Aptos kitchen designed by the homeowner
This Aptos apartment needed new kitchen cabinets so the owner took things into her own hands – we’re glad she did! We helped a little and this design turned out beautifully. How do you like that sideways tall cabinet on the end? We love it! As soon as we get photos we’ll post ’em –…
Garage storage bonanza!
15 feet wide, 7 tall – these tall cabinets can hold a garage full of stuff on a single wall! Not shown are the very cool flush pulls on a grey/green melamine. Garage storage has never looked so good!
Kitchen design: the basics
In the mid-80’s, Ortho Books published a series of hardback construction books. One titled “Basic Remodeling Techniques,” published by Robert J. Dolezal, did a very good job of identifying basic design concepts that can be applied to most kitchens. Here is an excerpt you may find useful. “Arrange the various activity centers to provide the…
The back of a cabinet can tell you a lot
The back of this cabinet shows us the thickness of the box material – .75″ white melamine (aka industrial grade particle board), as well as the .5″ nailers and the cabinet back. The box can also be made of .75″ Russian plywood where the preference is for a wood interior instead of white.