Cabinets, countertops, flooring, lighting, and plumbing handled end to end. Fixed written price before demolition starts.
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A kitchen is the most disruptive room in the house to rebuild and the one that pays you back every single day afterward. Our job is to make the second part true without the first part turning into a season of your life.
Every kitchen we build starts with how the room is actually used rather than what looks good in a rendering. Where the groceries land when you come in from the garage. Which drawer opens first when you start cooking. Whether two people can pass behind an island without one of them turning sideways. We measure the space, ask those questions, and design around the answers instead of dropping a catalog layout into your footprint and hoping it fits.
From there it is one crew and one point of contact through the entire build. Demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, cabinets, countertops, backsplash, flooring, lighting, and finish carpentry are all sequenced by us. That sequencing is the single biggest reason projects finish on the date they were promised. A kitchen does not usually run late because someone worked slowly. It runs late because the electrician showed up on a day the drywall was not ready.
Materials go on order before demolition, never after. Cabinets and stone carry the longest lead times of anything in the project, and ordering them early is what keeps a family from living out of a microwave for an extra month because a door style turned out to be backordered.
Most of the housing stock we work in was built between the 1940s and the 1970s. That means original kitchens sized for one wall oven and a single dishwasher circuit, undersized service panels, galvanized supply lines that have narrowed with scale, cast iron drain lines, and the occasional unpermitted wall someone added in 1978. None of that is alarming in a house of that age. All of it is much cheaper to find during the walkthrough than during demolition.
You get a fixed written price after we have seen the room, with allowances for tile, fixtures, and hardware broken out line by line. Change your mind about a faucet halfway through and you know exactly what it moves before you approve it. What we will not do is quote a kitchen over the phone.
The work zone gets dust-walled off, a temporary prep station goes into an adjacent room with your refrigerator and microwave, and the site is swept and cleared at the end of every day there is crew inside.
Call (818) 881-8333Not every dated kitchen needs a gut renovation. Some need better lighting, new counters, and doors. These are the situations where a full remodel is usually the right call rather than the expensive one.
If you are somewhere between a refresh and a full remodel, say so at the consultation. We will price both and tell you honestly which one the room actually needs.
Every full kitchen remodel covers all six of these. Anything outside this scope is listed separately on your quote.
Measured plans, cabinet configuration, and appliance placement built around how you cook.
Old cabinets, counters, and flooring out. Dust walls up, debris hauled, site swept daily.
Stock, semi-custom, or custom boxes set level and scribed to walls that are rarely straight.
Templated after cabinets are set, fabricated, and installed with sink and faucet cutouts.
Sink, dishwasher, disposal, gas, dedicated circuits, outlets, and under-cabinet lighting.
Flooring, trim, toe kicks, paint, and the punch list walkthrough before final payment.
Seven phases from first phone call to final walkthrough. Plan check runs alongside your material lead times rather than after them, which is how a permitted kitchen and an unpermitted one end up finishing within days of each other.
We walk the kitchen, measure everything, open the panel, and look under the sink. This is where the constraints that change a design turn up: a load-bearing wall, a drain line that cannot move, a window nobody wants to lose.
A measured layout, material options at three price points, and a fixed written price with allowances broken out. Revisions are free until the plan is right, because changing a drawing costs nothing and changing framing costs plenty.
Cabinets and stone go on order first because they carry the longest lead times. If the scope needs a permit, plans are submitted in parallel. Your kitchen stays fully usable through this entire phase.
Dust walls go up, the temporary prep station gets set, and the old kitchen comes out. Debris is hauled the same day rather than sitting in a bin at the curb for a week.
Plumbing, electrical, and any framing changes happen while the walls are open. This is where galvanized supply lines and undersized circuits get dealt with. The inspector signs off before anything is closed up, and we are on site to meet them.
Cabinets are set level and scribed to the wall, then stone is templated against the installed boxes rather than off a drawing. Backsplash, flooring, lighting, and paint follow in order.
We walk the kitchen with you and write down every last item, down to a drawer that needs adjusting and a caulk line that needs redoing. Those get fixed before final payment rather than after it.
Layout drives everything downstream: how much counter you end up with, where plumbing has to run, and what the project costs. Here is how each configuration actually performs in a real house rather than in a catalog.
Two parallel runs with a walkway between them. The most efficient layout per square foot and the cheapest to build, because plumbing and electrical stay on existing walls. It struggles when two people cook at once and it feels closed in unless one end opens to another room. Common in older Valley homes and worth keeping when the drain stack is not going anywhere.
Two runs meeting at a corner with the rest of the room left open. Flexible, forgiving of an odd room shape, and easy to add a table or a compact island to. The corner cabinet is the weak point. Specify a pull-out or a lazy Susan or you permanently lose that space to things you will never reach again.
Three connected runs. The most counter and the most storage you can get out of a given footprint, with a very short path between sink, range, and refrigerator. It can feel enclosed in a small room and it gives you two corners to solve instead of one. Best when the open side faces a dining area.
An island adds prep surface, seating, and storage, and it is what most people picture when they picture a remodel. It needs real clearance on every side you walk past, and forcing one into a room that cannot hold it makes the kitchen worse rather than better. Putting a sink or cooktop in the island means running plumbing or gas through the floor, which on a slab foundation is the single largest cost jump in most remodels. A peninsula anchored to an existing wall gets you much of the benefit without that trenching.
Removing the wall between a postwar kitchen and the living space is the change that most transforms how a house feels day to day. Whether it is straightforward or expensive comes down to one question: is that wall load-bearing, and does it carry plumbing, ducting, or electrical? We answer that at the consultation, before anyone falls in love with the idea, because a beam and the engineering behind it move a budget substantially.
Cabinets and countertops account for most of a kitchen budget, which makes them the two decisions worth the most of your attention.
| Type | What you get | Lead time | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock | Fixed sizes and finishes, off the shelf. Quality varies widely by brand — check whether the boxes are plywood or particleboard before comparing prices. | Days to 2 weeks | Tight budgets, standard layouts, rental property |
| Semi-custom | Standard box sizes with real choice in door style, finish, and interior hardware. The sweet spot for most remodels. | 4–8 weeks | Most full remodels |
| Custom | Built to your exact dimensions. The answer for out-of-square walls, tall ceilings, and specific storage problems. | 8–12 weeks | Older homes and non-standard rooms |
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Whichever tier you land on, plywood boxes and soft-close hardware are worth the upcharge. They are the difference between a kitchen that still feels solid in year ten and one that does not.
| Surface | Holds up to | Watch out for | Upkeep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz | Stains, scratches, daily abuse | Direct heat — always use a trivet | None. Soap and water. |
| Granite | Heat, cutting, heavy use | Every slab is different — view yours in person | Seal periodically |
| Porcelain slab | Heat, UV, outdoor kitchens | Edge detailing is limited | None |
| Butcher block | Knife work, warmth underhand | Standing water near the sink | Oil regularly |
Luxury vinyl plank has become the default in kitchens for good reason: genuinely waterproof, comfortable underfoot, and forgiving of a dropped pan. Porcelain tile is the most durable option and the hardest to stand on for an hour. Engineered hardwood makes sense when the kitchen opens to hardwood living space and a transition strip would look wrong, but it is the least tolerant of water of the three.
Lighting is where a remodel either comes together or quietly falls short, and it is the line homeowners cut first and regret most. A finished kitchen wants three layers: ambient light overhead, task lighting under the cabinets aimed at the counters where you actually work, and accent light over an island or sink. One ceiling fixture leaves you chopping vegetables in your own shadow no matter how good the cabinets are.
Two kitchens of identical size can differ enormously in price. These are the variables that move the number, roughly in order of impact.
Hold roughly 10 to 15 percent of your budget in reserve for what demolition uncovers, particularly in a house built before 1980. On most projects it goes unused and you keep it. On the ones where it is needed, it is the difference between a decision and a crisis.
We do not publish a price range on this page, and you should be skeptical of contractors who do. A number given without a walkthrough behind it is a marketing figure and it almost always climbs once someone actually sees the room. We price the job after measuring it, and that price is the one you pay.
We remodel kitchens throughout Encino and the surrounding San Fernando Valley and Westside communities. Tap your city for local housing stock and permitting.
Not on the list? Call (818) 881-8333 — we travel outside our core area for the right project.
Tell us what you are working with and we will walk the space, check the panel, talk through layout options, and put a fixed written price in front of you. No charge, no obligation.