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.
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).
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.
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.
Wilsonart colors
Doors, drawer fronts, finished ends, edgebanding and even base trim match beautifully with the Wilsonart Lujo line of textured TFL (thermo fused laminate), aka textured melamine. It looks like wood but is more durable and affordable.
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.
Recent jobs by Silicon Valley Cabinets
Emily Henderson explains – what to do that 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.
Euro-style cabinets, hinges and full overlay doors
European style cabinets don’t have face frames. This clean, efficient look is standard in commercial and modern residential settings. We use Blum hinges with .75″ thick doors with a full overlay (meaning the doors cover the edge of the cabinet box). A small reveal (meaning the box is visibly wider than the doors and drawers)…
Flush pulls: form meets function
These flush pulls are great for garages and other applications where space is at a premium or protruding pulls are impractical. These are not available in the software right now but we can add them for you when we review your design together.
Drag-and-drop cabinet design!
This kitchen was easy to design and will provide beauty and convenience to the homeowner for generations. Thermo-fused laminate (TFL) provides the color, texture and durability to this premium kitchen. The images show the kitchen in wire-frame and rendered forms.
Point & click cabinet catalog
While the 3D designer is the most fun, many people just need a cabinet or two – no 3D room layout needed. With a simple point-and-click you can set the size and specs and order your cabinets quickly and easily!