Kitchen Remodeling
Full kitchen remodels in Lancaster and Chester County, PA
A full remodel is the kitchen emptied to the studs and built again: the layout you want instead of the one the builder gave you, new electrical and plumbing where the new plan needs them, cabinets and counters chosen for the room, and the lighting, floor, and trim finished with it. We do all of it, so nothing falls between trades.
What a Full Remodel Includes
- Demolition and disposal: cabinets, counters, flooring, and any wall that is coming out.
- Framing changes: a wall removed with a header, a doorway moved, a window enlarged over the sink.
- Electrical: new circuits for the range, the microwave drawer, the dishwasher, and the counters, under-cabinet and pendant lighting, and recessed lights laid out for the new plan.
- Plumbing: the sink and dishwasher moved if the layout moves them, a pot filler, an island sink with its vent.
- Cabinets: installed level and plumb, scribed to walls that are never straight, with the fillers and panels that make a run look built-in.
- Counters: templated after the cabinets are set, so the seams land where they should.
- Backsplash, flooring, trim, paint, and a final clean.
How the Design Comes Together
We start with how you cook and who is in the kitchen at six o’clock. From that come the decisions: where the range and the sink go, whether an island fits with real clearance around it, how much of the wall to the dining room comes out, where the pantry goes. We measure, draw the plan, and walk it with you in the room with tape on the floor before anything is ordered.
Cabinets are the longest lead item, so we help you choose them early. Painted shaker, stained wood, inset or overlay, a stained island with painted perimeter cabinets: we have installed all of them and we will tell you what holds up.
Living Through It
A full remodel takes the kitchen out of service from demolition until the counters are in. We set up a temporary kitchen with the refrigerator, the microwave, and a sink where the plan allows, seal the kitchen from the rest of the house with plastic walls, and keep the dust where the work is. We tell you the window before we start.
What We Refer Out
We do kitchens one way: the old one out, a new one in. Cabinet refacing, repainting cabinets, counter-only and backsplash-only jobs, and installing cabinets from a big-box store are not what we do. We will tell you that on the first call and point you to someone who does them well. If the kitchen is being replaced, all of that is part of it.
What We Have Finished
The Glen Mills kitchen below is a full remodel: white shaker cabinets, a long blue-gray island with seating, a range under a wood-banded hood, a butler’s pantry with lighted glass uppers, and a wall of pantry cabinets. The Chester Springs job added a bar wall to a kitchen and a mudroom off it.
Projects
Kitchens We Have Finished
Questions
Questions We Get
Can we keep the kitchen running during the remodel?
Not the main kitchen, no. We set up a temporary kitchen with the refrigerator, microwave, and a sink where we can, and we give you the exact dates the kitchen will be out of service before we start.
Which cabinets do you install?
Custom-built, semi-custom, and Wolf cabinets, and outdoor cabinets for an outdoor kitchen. We do not install cabinets from a big-box store. We bring you to the showrooms we trust, tell you what has held up, and order through suppliers we have worked with for years.
Do you reface cabinets or replace just the counters?
Not as stand-alone jobs. Refacing, repainting, counter-only, and backsplash-only jobs are better handled by contractors who do that work every day, and we are happy to give you a name. Inside a full remodel, all of it is included.
Can the wall to the dining room come out?
Usually. Most are bearing walls and get a header sized for the span. We tell you on the first visit whether the wall is bearing and what the opening involves.
Process
How We Work
- We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
- You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
- Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
- We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
- We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.
Kitchen Remodeling
More Kinds of Kitchens
Service area
Where We Work
Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.
Lancaster County
- Christiana
- Gap
- Quarryville
- Strasburg
- Lancaster
Chester County
- Parkesburg
- Coatesville
- West Chester
- Kennett Square
- Downingtown
- Malvern
- Chester Springs
- Frazer
Dalton and his crew worked on our kitchen and 1st floor remodel. Framed out new mudroom, pantry and office space and installed new electrical throughout. Very professional and great to work with!
— Samantha GordonKitchen and first-floor remodel5 stars on Google
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