Cabinet Maker Long Jetty, Storage for Smaller Homes

Central Coast Custom Cabinets is a cabinet maker with over 12 years of experience building custom kitchens, wardrobes and joinery for homes right across the Central Coast. From custom kitchens, built-in and walk-in wardrobes to bathroom vanities, laundry cabinetry, home office fit-outs and entertainment units, every piece is drawn to your room, built in our Gosford workshop and installed by the same team.

Whether it is a new kitchen in a Wyong or Warnervale estate home, a robe scribed into an out-of-square Woy Woy cottage or a full joinery fit-out in Terrigal, the work pairs moisture-resistant construction with compliant benchtops and corrosion-resistant hardware chosen for the humid, salt-laden air of the coast. Free on-site measure and a fixed written quote before any work starts.

0485 032 128

Central Coast Custom Cabinets builds custom kitchens, wardrobes and joinery for Long Jetty, the revitalising retro strip on the western shore of Tuggerah Lake. This is a suburb of older lakeside cottages now being renovated by design-conscious owners, and that calls for cabinetry made to fit real, settled rooms. We scribe and pack every cabinet level, build carcasses square in 16 to 18mm HMR board with heat-sealed edges, and hang doors on quality Blum or Hettich soft-close hinges. In the humid lake air we seal wet-area cut-outs properly, because moisture-resistant board is not waterproof. Fully insured with $20M public liability and 12 years on the Coast, we fabricate only compliant benchtops and never engineered stone. For a free measure and written quote along The Entrance Road and the Long Jetty foreshore, call 0485 032 128.

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Cabinet maker Long Jetty, designed and built in a Gosford workshop

Every Long Jetty job is drawn, machined and installed by the one Gosford workshop, a short run around the lake. The cabinetmaker who measures the room is the cabinetmaker who hangs the doors, which matters on a strip where almost every job is a one-off. Work runs in a fixed order: a free on-site measure, a written itemised quote, a 3D layout signed off before anything is cut, then machining, then a single install day. On a design-led renovation the 3D stage does more than confirm dimensions, because an owner choosing between a solid timber top and a porcelain one, or between an open shelf run and closed overheads, is making a decision about how the room will look for twenty years and wants to see it before committing. Sheets are cut, edged and drilled on the bench rather than ordered in as pre-sized modules, so an opening that measures 812mm is machined to 812mm instead of taking a 900mm module and filling the difference. Access shapes the day here too: Long Jetty blocks are narrow and many cottages sit close to the street, so a run is delivered in sections that can be carried through rather than swung in. Doors and fronts are sprayed and cured in the workshop before they travel, which keeps dust and solvent out of a house someone is living in through the renovation.

Scribed to old cottage walls, sealed for lake humidity

Long Jetty's housing is its defining constraint. The strip is dominated by older lakeside cottages, many original fibro and weatherboard homes from the mid-twentieth century, and after decades of settling on soft lake-edge ground they are almost never square. Flat-pack modules built to factory-square dimensions simply do not fit them, which is why we measure on site and scribe and pack every cabinet level, holding door and panel reveals to within about 2mm against walls that lean and floors that fall away. The lake setting adds a moisture load on top. BOM figures for the Gosford area put annual rainfall close to 1,000mm and lift relative humidity to around 62% at the February peak, and homes right on the Tuggerah Lake foreshore live in that damp year-round. So every kitchen, bathroom and laundry carcass is built in 16 to 18mm HMR board, cut edges are heat-sealed, and sink and cooktop cut-outs are sealed so moisture cannot get into the core. We say it plainly: HMR is moisture-resistant, not waterproof, and the sealing detail is what makes it last by the lake. Hardware is specified to match: full-extension runners rated around 40kg, up to 70kg for heavy pot drawers, on Blum or Hettich soft-close mechanisms, and three-way adjustable hinges rated well beyond 100,000 open-close cycles. For a design-led Long Jetty renovation the finish palette matters, so we work in melamine and high-pressure laminate, natural timber veneer, and two-pac polyurethane, which suits the mid-century-modern and coastal looks popular on the strip, while cautioning against vinyl-wrap near ovens and cooktops where heat lifts the film. Benchtops are laminate, natural granite or marble through licensed stonemasons, porcelain, or solid timber, the last a favourite for the warm, characterful kitchens Long Jetty owners tend to want in a cottage renovation. Where a cottage wall bows badly we build in scribe fillers and shadow-lines rather than forcing a cabinet flat, so the join reads as a deliberate design detail instead of an obvious gap.

Why Long Jetty renovators choose Central Coast Custom Cabinets

The people renovating Long Jetty shape the brief. At the 2021 Census the suburb had 6,736 residents in just 2.4 square kilometres, a dense mix of long-term locals, retirees and, increasingly, younger design-conscious owners drawn by the revived strip and the relative affordability of a lakeside cottage. This is a renovation market rather than a new-build one, and renovators tend to be particular: they want cabinetry that is well made, individual to their home, and built to outlast a quick cosmetic flip. As an indication only, a straightforward laminate kitchen in a Long Jetty cottage typically sits around $12,000 to $20,000 supplied and installed, a mid-range kitchen with porcelain, natural stone or solid-timber benchtops and full soft-close more commonly $20,000 to $35,000, and a built-in wardrobe from about $2,500 to $6,000. These are ranges, not quotes; the accurate figure comes from an on-site measure. What earns us the work on a discerning strip is a mix of craft and cover. We are fully insured with $20M public liability and have 12 years across the Central Coast, and we fabricate only compliant benchtops: laminate, porcelain, natural granite and marble through licensed stonemasons, or solid timber. We do not fabricate or install engineered stone, in line with the national prohibition effective 1 July 2024, so there is no silica-dust risk in a Long Jetty job, and natural stone or timber gives the character these renovations call for anyway. For an owner investing in a design-led renovation of a lakeside cottage, an itemised written quote and one accountable contact from first measure to final install is exactly the accountability they are looking for when the whole point is a considered, one-off result rather than an off-the-shelf kitchen. Many Long Jetty owners are also renovating so the home can earn as a stylish short-stay near the cafe strip, so they want cabinetry that photographs well and survives guest use, which again points to solid hardware and hard-wearing, characterful finishes.

Long Jetty covered, The Entrance Road to the lake foreshore

Long Jetty is compact and walkable, and our work runs the length of it. The Entrance Road is the spine, the retro cafe-and-vintage strip that defines the suburb, and we fit out both the cottages set back from it and the small creative businesses and studios along it. Homes on the streets sloping down to the Long Jetty foreshore and the Tuggerah Lake edge get our full lake-humidity specification, while the pockets around Jubilee Oval and Sir Baden-Powell Reserve hold many of the original cottages where scribing to out-of-square walls is the daily reality. The strip runs north to south between the lake and the ocean, and the work follows it: the cottages either side of the main road, the streets dropping to the foreshore, and quiet Toowoon Bay immediately east, all a short run from our workshop. The Entrance Road connects the strip straight through to the wider road network and the M1 Pacific Motorway beyond. That geography also makes the case against flat-pack plain. The nearest IKEA is at Tempe in inner Sydney, roughly 100 kilometres south down the M1, a serious trek with a loaded trailer, and Bunnings Kaboodle only comes in fixed cabinet sizes that leave filler strips against the leaning walls of a mid-century Long Jetty cottage. A cabinet measured, scribed and built for your actual room, in a finish chosen to suit the strip's design-led character, fits properly and lasts, which is what a considered lakeside renovation deserves. The foreshore cycleway and the pelican-feeding drawcard at nearby The Entrance keep this stretch busy with passing trade, part of why owners here invest in a kitchen that looks the part, and because it is a short run to our workshop we can pop back for the small adjustments an old cottage sometimes needs after a season of lake humidity. For a free on-site measure anywhere in Long Jetty or the neighbouring lakes suburbs, call 0485 032 128. Central Coast Custom Cabinets is fully insured and just a call away on +61485032128 for a free quote.

Kitchen cabinet maker Long Jetty: design-led fit-outs in mid-century cottages

Long Jetty is a renovation suburb rather than a rebuild one, and that is unusual on this coast. The 351-metre jetty that gave the suburb its name opened in 1915, the strip thrived through the 1960s and 1970s and then slid for decades, and its revival has drawn in buyers who bought a mid-century fibro or weatherboard cottage precisely because of what it is. They do not want it knocked down and replaced with something that could sit in any estate. So the kitchen brief is a considered fit-out that works like a modern kitchen and still belongs in the house: a solid timber or characterful benchtop rather than a builder-grade laminate, open shelving where the room can carry it, and handleless or simple profiles that suit a mid-century room rather than fighting it. The blocks are small and the cottages compact, so space is won in corners rather than gained by extending, which means pull-outs that bring a blind corner to you, drawers in place of low cupboards, and tall units taken to the ceiling instead of stopping at a dust shelf. Open-plan reworkings are common, usually to turn a closed-off kitchen toward the lake outlook, and that decision is worth making before the cabinetry is drawn rather than after. Appliance openings are cut to the actual model going in, because a 597mm oven in a 600mm hole reads as a mistake for the life of the kitchen. Households comparing kitchens across the region will find the range on the custom kitchens page.

Small cabinetry jobs and repairs in Long Jetty

Not every Long Jetty job is a whole room. A single alcove unit beside a fireplace, one run of floating shelves, a window seat with lift-top storage under an original sash, a compact desk and shelving run for someone working from home: each is taken on as its own job. The strip itself generates a particular kind of small work, because the vintage dealers, homewares boutiques and independent makers along the main road need display shelving, counters and back-of-house storage built to a shopfront rather than bought in, and those are usually a single unit rather than a fit-out. In the cottages the common jobs are age and damp: runners that have given out after decades, a door dropped on a hinge screwed into soft old timber, a kick panel swollen where a laundry sits close to lake-edge ground. Most are a single visit, and being ten minutes away means the small adjustment an old cottage wants after a humid summer is a short trip rather than a rescheduled callout. Sometimes the honest answer is that a repair is not worth doing, because a carcass swollen through its base will not hold new hardware, and that gets said at the quote rather than after the invoice. Every small job is quoted in writing with the board, finish and hardware named.

Joinery Long Jetty: wardrobes, vanities and built-in storage

Beyond the kitchen, most Long Jetty joinery is storage found in a cottage that was built without any. Bedrooms in a mid-century weatherboard often have a shallow robe or nothing at all, and the rooms are small, so the usual job is a floor-to-ceiling built-in planned around what is actually kept: long hanging for coats, double hanging for shirts, drawer banks instead of one deep shelf, and adjustable shelving that moves as a household changes. On a compact block the storage goes up rather than out, so a robe built to the ceiling returns a full extra shelf in a house with none to spare, and a sliding door saves the swing space a hinged one needs in a narrow room. Bathroom vanities are built to the tiled opening rather than a catalogue width, which removes the filler strip at the end of a run, and in an original wet room the drawers are set out around waste and water points that sit where the first plumber left them. Owners renovating a cottage to let it short-stay want the same joinery in harder-wearing finishes that survive guest use and clean quickly between bookings. Robe interiors are set out on the built-in wardrobes page, and vanity sizes and finishes on the bathroom vanities page. The full range of one-off and built-in joinery across the region is set out on the custom joinery page.

Custom Cabinetry Services we offer In Long Jetty

Custom Kitchens

Kitchens designed, built and installed by one Gosford workshop, scribed to suit older beach-shack walls and new estate slabs alike. Moisture-resistant construction for the Central Coast climate, compliant benchtops only, and hardware chosen to shrug off coastal salt air.

Laundry Cabinets

Purpose-built laundries that stand up to a coastal climate, from a compact European-style cupboard to a full walk-through room with trough, bench and drying storage. Moisture-resistant construction, sealed cut-outs and corrosion-resistant hardware chosen for humid, salt-laden Central Coast air.

Built-in Wardrobes

Floor-to-ceiling built-in wardrobes tailored to your clothes and your room, with sliding or hinged doors and a fully custom interior of hanging, shelving and drawers. Scribed to older, out-of-square coastal walls and fitted with hardware chosen to last in salt-air bedrooms.

Walk-in Wardrobes

Boutique walk-in wardrobes that make a dressing room of the master suite, with tailored hanging, drawer islands, open shelving and LED lighting. Built and fitted by one Gosford workshop, ventilated for the humid coastal climate and specced to last near the beach.

Bathroom Vanities

Custom bathroom vanities built for Central Coast wet areas, from floating wall-hung units to double-bowl floor-standing designs. Moisture-resistant HMR cores, sealed cut-outs and corrosion-resistant hardware for salt-air homes near the beach. Compliant benchtops only, no engineered stone.

Custom Joinery

Bespoke built-in joinery for Central Coast homes, scribed tight to old beach-shack and weatherboard walls. Alcove shelving, window seats, understair storage, mudrooms and robe fit-outs, made to measure in our Gosford workshop with soft-close hardware and compliant finishes.

Entertainment & TV Units

Custom entertainment and TV units for Central Coast living rooms, engineered with ventilated equipment bays and tidy cable management so your gear runs cool. Floating consoles, floor-to-ceiling media walls and fireplace combinations, built to your wall and finished to match.

Home Office Cabinets

Custom home office cabinetry for Central Coast commuters and remote workers: ergonomic desks at the right height, fitted shelving, integrated filing and hidden cabling. Fitted study walls, floating desks and twin workstations, built to your room in our Gosford workshop.

Custom Storage Solutions

Bespoke wardrobes, walk-in pantries, garage systems and home-office joinery, measured to your walls and built in moisture-resistant board. From Woy Woy beach cottages to Warnervale new-builds, we scribe every unit tight and hang it on soft-close hardware. Free on-site measure across the Central Coast.

Kitchen & Stone Benchtops

Full custom kitchens finished only in compliant benchtops, laminate, natural granite and marble, porcelain and solid timber. We do not fabricate engineered stone, prohibited nationwide since 1 July 2024. Designed, built and installed for Central Coast homes. Call for a free design consult.

Shopfitting & Commercial Joinery

Shopfitting and commercial joinery across the Central Coast, retail counters, cafe and bar fit-outs, reception desks, medical and office cabinetry. Commercial-grade materials, heavy-duty hardware, built to your fit-out deadline. From Gosford CBD to Erina Fair and the Terrigal cafe strip. Call for a trade quote.

Cabinet Refacing & Doors

Tired doors on sound cabinets? Refacing swaps doors, drawer fronts, panels and handles for a fraction of a full rebuild. New melamine, laminate, veneer or two-pac fronts on fresh soft-close hardware. Ideal for salt-worn coastal kitchens from Woy Woy to Terrigal. Free suitability assessment.

Custom Cabinetry In Long Jetty

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Everything you need to know about our Custom Cabinetry In Long Jetty

Do you renovate kitchens in older Long Jetty cottages?

Yes, that is our core Long Jetty work. Most homes here are older fibro and weatherboard cottages that have settled by Tuggerah Lake and are rarely square, so we measure on site, scribe and pack every cabinet level, and hold reveals to within about 2mm. You get a design-led kitchen that fits the real cottage, not a flat-pack layout forced into a leaning room.

Does the lake setting affect how you build cabinets in Long Jetty?

Yes. Homes on the Tuggerah Lake foreshore sit in humid air year-round, with BOM figures for the Gosford area lifting humidity to around 62% at the February peak. We build carcasses in 16 to 18mm HMR board, heat-seal the edges and seal wet-area cut-outs so moisture cannot reach the core. HMR is moisture-resistant, not waterproof, so that sealing detail is what makes it last by the lake.

What does a kitchen renovation cost in Long Jetty?

As an indication only, a straightforward laminate kitchen in a Long Jetty cottage is usually around $12,000 to $20,000 supplied and installed, and a mid-range kitchen with porcelain, stone or solid-timber benchtops and full soft-close more commonly $20,000 to $35,000. Built-in wardrobes start about $2,500 to $6,000. These are ranges, not quotes; we give a firm written price after an on-site measure.

Can you match the retro, design-led look popular on The Entrance Road?

Yes. Long Jetty renovations lean toward mid-century-modern and coastal styling, so we work in timber veneer, natural solid timber, high-pressure laminate and two-pac polyurethane finishes, with natural stone or timber benchtops for warmth and character. We do caution against vinyl-wrap doors near ovens and cooktops, where heat can lift the film over time.

Do you install engineered stone benchtops?

No. Under the national prohibition in force since 1 July 2024, we do not fabricate or install engineered stone. We fit compliant benchtops instead: laminate, porcelain, natural granite or marble through licensed stonemasons, or solid timber. For a character Long Jetty cottage, natural stone or solid timber usually suits the look better anyway, with no silica-dust compliance risk.

Are you insured, and why choose you over flat-pack?

We are fully insured with $20M public liability and have 12 years on the Central Coast. The nearest IKEA is at Tempe in inner Sydney, about 100 kilometres south down the M1, and both IKEA and Kaboodle only come in fixed cabinet sizes that leave gaps against a leaning old cottage wall. We measure, scribe and build for your exact room, with one accountable contact from measure to install.