Custom Kitchens & Cabinetry in the East Bay

The East Bay is one of the deepest and most diverse stretches of residential California, spread across Alameda and Contra Costa counties from the bay flats to the ridgelines and out into the inland valleys. In a single drive you can pass from the brown-shingle blocks of North Berkeley, across the flatlands of Oakland and Emeryville, up into the winding streets of the Oakland and Berkeley hills, and out through the Caldecott Tunnel to Walnut Creek, Lafayette and the Diablo Valley. Since 2006, PineWood Cabinets has built custom cabinetry across this whole map as a single source for custom kitchens, cabinetry, design and remodeling, rather than a one-product shop.

The housing stock here is as layered as the geography. Berkeley and Oakland are full of Craftsman bungalows, brown-shingle homes and First Bay Tradition houses with the original built-ins and breakfast nooks still in place, while the hills above them hold mid-century and contemporary homes that chase the bay and Golden Gate views. Closer to the water, Alameda's Victorian and Edwardian streets and Fremont's ranch-era tracts and newer subdivisions each call for a different hand. East of the hills, Walnut Creek, Lafayette and Danville run from oak-shaded ranch homes to larger newer builds. We treat each of these as a different problem rather than the same kitchen in a new ZIP code.

What ties the East Bay together is its long craft tradition. This is the home turf of the Arts and Crafts movement on the West Coast, and that inheritance still shapes how people here think about a kitchen: honest materials, visible joinery, and built-in storage that belongs to the architecture. Our designs respect that. We detail cabinetry to read as part of the house, match the proportions of an older bungalow or hold a clean, quiet line in a hillside contemporary, and we build the storage that a busy East Bay household actually uses every day.

We are based in Roseville, California, and serve East Bay clients directly. Whether a project is a full remodel down to the studs in a Berkeley bungalow, a fresh set of custom cabinets for an Oakland hills kitchen, or a ground-up kitchen design for new construction in Fremont or Walnut Creek, the same team carries it from first measurement to final installation. You can reach us at +1-650-855-2231 to talk through an East Bay project.