Laredo Elite Cabinets provides professional cabinet services in San Diego, TX — Duval County, population 3,748. From custom kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities to commercial cabinetry & millwork, our insured team serves San Diego homes and businesses.
San Diego property owners near the Duval County Courthouse, State Highway 44, the Jim Wells County line count on Laredo Elite Cabinets for custom cabinets in San Diego. We bring the same cabinet work we are known for in Laredo to every job in San Diego, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 440-5106 for a free cabinet estimate in San Diego, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation. Se habla español.
Cabinet in San Diego, TX
San Diego is the seat of Duval County, with 3,748 residents at the 2020 census, down from 4,488 in 2010. Part of the city crosses into Jim Wells County. It's named for Didacus of Alcalá, and the Duval County Courthouse stands here.
State Highway 44 and State Highway 359 run together into town and split apart on the far side, 359 heading southwest toward Benavides and Hebbronville.
The Texas Mexican Railway began operating in 1881 and made the San Diego station an important hub for trading hides, wool and cotton — Duval County was sheep country first, until the winter of 1886 and 1887 killed the flocks and the economy with them.
The Parr family ran county politics for most of the twentieth century, and George Parr was instrumental in Lyndon Johnson's 1948 Senate election, a piece of history that people here discuss with more nuance than most textbooks manage. Duval County's total population was 9,831 in 2020.
The typical San Diego kitchen we walk into was framed between about 1955 and 1975, and it has a family resemblance you can spot from the driveway: brick or block exterior, a galley barely eight feet wide, and 30-inch wall cabinets that stop a full foot below the ceiling with a boxed soffit filling the gap and nothing behind it but air and a little wiring.
Meanwhile there are seven people in the house and a stand mixer permanently parked on the counter because there's nowhere else for it. The fix is not complicated.
We take the soffit down, run 42-inch uppers to the ceiling with a crown that dies into it cleanly, and convert the lower cabinets to drawers so you stop kneeling to find a pan lid. You gain roughly eighteen cubic feet of storage without moving a single wall.
Figure $9,700 to $21,000 for the room including the soffit work, less if we keep the existing layout and only change the boxes.
Getting a free estimate in San Diego
Call (888) 440-5106 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in San Diego, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.
We also serve Encinal, TX and the rest of Webb County. Everything starts at the Laredo Elite Cabinets homepage.
Cabinet work we do in San Diego, TX
Laredo Elite Cabinets covers the same range of work in San Diego that we do in Laredo — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Soft-Close & Pull-Out Systems — Soft-close pull-out shelves fix the one problem every older Laredo kitchen shares: a 24-inch-deep base cabinet with a single fixed shelf and a stock pot lost somewhere behind it. We retrofit full-extension roll-outs on Blum undermount slides into cabinets you already own, and build new bases as drawer banks so nothing ever has to be excavated on your knees again.
- Countertops — Quartz and granite countertops in Laredo have to live with water hard enough to leave a white mineral ring anywhere a puddle dries, which is most of the reason polished stone starts looking tired here in five years. We template digitally and install quartz, granite, butcher block and sintered stone in 2cm or 3cm, and we place the seams where the layout wants them rather than where the slab happens to run out.
- Islands & Breakfast Bars — A kitchen island in Laredo should be a working island, because in a house where two people cook and a comal lives on the burner, the middle of the room is the busiest square footage you own. We build islands with plywood cases, finished backs and ends, deep pot drawers, the outlets code wants, and an overhang someone can actually get their knees under.
- Wine & Bar Cabinets — Wine and bar cabinets in Laredo have a climate problem before they have a design problem, since a decorative bottle rack on a west-facing wall that sits at 84 degrees all afternoon is a slow and expensive way to cook a case of wine. We build bar cabinetry with glass storage, bottle rails and a stone or laminate top that can take a wet glass, plus conditioned or properly vented compartments wherever the wine is meant to keep.
- Mudroom & Entryway Storage — Mudroom and entryway storage in Laredo is mostly dust management, because the caliche that coats a truck on a ranch road comes into the house on boots and does not leave on its own. We build lockers, benches, hooks and closed shoe storage in plywood with a wipeable catalyzed varnish finish, sized to the door people actually use, which is the one from the garage and not the front one.
- Commercial Cabinetry & Millwork — Commercial cabinetry and millwork in Laredo runs on freight, since the customs brokerages, forwarders and warehouse offices around the World Trade Bridge, Killam Industrial Boulevard and the Mines Road corridor keep more casework in daily service than every restaurant in Webb County put together. We build reception desks, brokerage workstations, file walls and break rooms to AWI standards in high-pressure laminate over industrial-grade substrate with 3mm PVC edge banding.
See the full list of Laredo services, or call (888) 440-5106.
About San Diego, TX — and why local matters here
San Diego sits in Duval County with a population of roughly 3,748, close enough to Laredo that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Duval County Courthouse, State Highway 44, the Jim Wells County line.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. San Diego properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Duval County, and a cabinet contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Popular services in San Diego: Custom Kitchen Cabinets and Bathroom Vanities.
We also serve Encinal, TX and Webb County.