Custom Kitchens & Cabinetry in Palm Springs

Palm Springs sits in a narrow gap of the Coachella Valley, pressed against the dramatic eastern face of Mount San Jacinto, whose 10,000-foot wall throws afternoon shade across the city long before the rest of the desert cools. Few American cities carry such a distinct architectural identity. The post-war boom that brought Hollywood to the desert also brought architects like Albert Frey, Donald Wexler, William Krisel, and E. Stewart Williams, and the low-slung, glass-walled houses they designed still define neighborhoods from the Movie Colony to Vista Las Palmas. Since 2006, PineWood Cabinets has built custom kitchens for homeowners who chose Palm Springs precisely because of that design legacy and want cabinetry that respects it.

The city reads as a series of distinct neighborhoods rather than a single grid. Vista Las Palmas and Old Las Palmas hold many of the celebrated mid-century estates, butterfly roofs and breeze-block screens tucked behind tamarisk and oleander. The Movie Colony, east of Palm Canyon Drive, mixes Spanish Revival haciendas with sleek modernist boxes. Up the alluvial fans, the Mesa and the Araby Cove area climb toward the mountains with steep lots and walls of glass aimed at the valley floor, while Deepwell Estates and Indian Canyons spread across flatter ground with mature landscaping and pools. Each pocket asks something different of a kitchen.

Tying the city together is a way of living that flows constantly between inside and out. Homes here are organized around patios, lap pools, and shaded loggias, and the kitchen is rarely a closed room at the back of the house. It opens to the great room, slides open to the deck, and frames a view of the mountains or the San Jacinto ridgeline. Cabinetry has to hold up its end of that openness: clean enough not to clutter the sightlines, durable enough to live near a pool and a grill, and organized enough to handle the steady rhythm of guests that comes with a second home or a winter retreat.

Our clients in Palm Springs are a mix: full-time residents restoring a Krisel-era tract house in Twin Palms, weekenders updating a condo near the Uptown Design District, and owners of larger contemporary homes off Southridge or in the Las Palmas hills. What they share is an appreciation for honest materials and crisp execution, the same values that made the city famous, and a desire to work with a cabinetmaker who will neither over-decorate a clean modern house nor strip the warmth out of a Spanish one.

In the celebrated tracts and estate streets of Vista Las Palmas, Twin Palms, and Deepwell, much of our work is restorative: returning a kitchen to the spirit of its original architect after decades of unsympathetic remodels, while quietly bringing the storage, appliances, and lighting up to current standards. We reproduce period-correct slab fronts and finishes where it matters and let the cabinetry recede so the architecture stays the star.

Up on the Mesa, in Araby Cove, and on the steeper Southridge lots, the houses tend to be larger and more contemporary, with glass walls aimed straight at the valley lights. Here the kitchen often becomes a sculptural island and a long, uninterrupted run of cabinetry, with appliances tucked behind panels so nothing competes with the view. Down in Deepwell Estates, Indian Canyons, and the Movie Colony, we work across a wider mix of Spanish, ranch, and modern homes, tailoring each kitchen to its own street and era rather than a single template.

We serve the full city and the neighboring Coachella Valley communities just down Highway 111, so whether your home sits below the tramway in the cove or out toward the Uptown Design District on North Palm Canyon Drive, the process is the same: study the house, design to it, and build cabinetry meant to last in the desert.