Office Cabinets & Reception Desks in Cerritos, CA
Office cabinets in Cerritos tend to arrive one of two ways: as furniture that gets wheeled in and never quite fits, or as casework that is built into the room and looks like it belongs to the building. We build the second kind. From our Cerritos fabrication shop, Cerritos Custom Cabinets produces custom office cabinets, reception desks, storage walls, and break room kitchenettes for offices on both sides of the LA and Orange County line, quoted free from your floor plan.
Everything is commercial-grade laminate casework, built to your dimensions and your brand colors, with the electrical and data routing figured out on paper before fabrication. If your project spans more than one room or more than one trade, our commercial casework hub page covers how we handle shop drawings, submittals, and GC coordination across the whole package.
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Custom Reception Desks Built for First Impressions
A custom reception desk does three jobs at once: it sells the company to everyone who walks in, it organizes the person working behind it, and it meets code for the people approaching it. We design all three in from the start. The public face gets your brand: laminate and accent panels matched to your palette, a transaction counter at standing height, and clean sightlines from the entry. The working side gets what receptionists actually need: knee space that fits a real chair, locking drawers, package staging, and grommeted wire paths for monitors, phones, and charging, all routed before the desk ever leaves the shop.
Every reception desk we build includes an accessible counter section, because sales and service counters are required to provide one at a maximum height of 36 inches, at least 36 inches long where customers approach in parallel. Designing that section into the desk from the first drawing means it reads as part of the design instead of a bolted-on afterthought. Our ADA-compliant cabinetry page covers the full standard in detail.
Storage Walls and Lateral File Cabinets
Paper did not die; it just needs a better home. We build locking lateral file cabinets sized to letter and legal hanging files, wall-to-wall storage systems that run floor to ceiling, and credenza runs that put printers, supplies, and shredders behind doors. Because each unit is fabricated to the wall it lives on, a storage wall from our shop uses the full height of the room instead of stopping where a catalog unit happens to stop.
Catalog office furniture also locks you into its dimensions. Ready-to-assemble office base cabinets ship at a fixed 29.5 inches tall with no way to customize them. When your copy area, your mail room, or your standing-height plan room needs a different working height, fabrication is the answer, and that is what we do.
Break Room Cabinets and Kitchenettes
The break room is the one place the whole staff touches every day, and it deserves better than a freestanding cabinet next to a mini fridge. We build complete kitchenette runs: base cabinets with drawers, a sink base, wall uppers, and a continuous countertop with backsplash, sized to the tenant space. Laminate casework is the standard spec for break rooms because it shrugs off coffee, lunch traffic, and daily wipe-downs. Where accessibility applies, employee kitchenette work surfaces are held to a 34-inch maximum height with accessible counter sections per section 902 of the ADA Standards. We plan appliance landing zones, water and power locations, and trash pullouts into the drawings, so the finished break room works like a small kitchen instead of a storage row.
Built in Cerritos, Installed in Your Office
Our shop is in Cerritos, minutes from office parks along the 91 and 605, and our install crews work across Los Angeles and Orange Counties. For occupied offices we phase installs around your business hours, and for tenant improvement projects we coordinate directly with your GC so casework lands in the right slot of the trade sequence. Fabricating and installing from one local shop means the people who cut your panels are the people who set them, and the 5-year written workmanship warranty behind the work has a local address.
FAQs
How much do custom office cabinets cost?
Commercial cabinet and casework projects in our metro typically run $5,000 to $30,000 depending on scope. A single reception desk sits at the low end of a package; a full suite with storage walls, files, and a break room build climbs from there. Send your floor plan and we will price the actual scope, free.
Does my reception desk need to be ADA compliant?
If the public approaches it, yes. Sales and service counters must include an accessible section no higher than 36 inches, at least 36 inches long for a parallel approach. We build that section into every reception desk we fabricate, matched to the design, so compliance is handled before plan check ever asks.
Get a Quote From Your Floor Plan
Send us your floor plan or your architect's casework schedule and we will return a free quote built from shop drawings. Prefer to walk the space first? We will meet you at the office, measure, and scope it on site. Call (562) 262-5720 and get your reception desk, storage, and break room priced by the Cerritos shop that will build them.