Long blue-gray kitchen island with a white quartz top and seating in a remodeled kitchen in Glen Mills, PA

Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen islands and cabinets in Lancaster and Chester County, PA

The island is usually the first thing people want in a new kitchen, and the cabinets are what they use every day. We build islands of every kind inside a full remodel: seating islands, islands with a sink or a cooktop and the plumbing and electric run out to them, and peninsulas where an island will not fit. The cabinets around them are custom-built, semi-custom, or Wolf, chosen with you and installed by us.

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Islands and Peninsulas

Seating islands: a counter overhang on the room side, stools, and outlets built in because the code requires them.
Working islands: a sink with its drain and vent routed through the floor, a cooktop with a downdraft or a hood above, a dishwasher, a microwave drawer.
Peninsulas: an island attached to a run of cabinets, for kitchens that cannot give an island the clearance it needs on all four sides.
An island needs room to walk and work around it, so we tape the size out on the floor before anyone falls in love with it.

The Glen Mills island below is a long blue-gray cabinet with a white quartz top, seating on one side, a microwave drawer at the end, and black pendants over it.

Cabinet Lines We Install

Custom-built cabinets made to the room, semi-custom lines with the sizes and finishes most kitchens need, and Wolf cabinets from Wolf Home Products of York, PA, the same company whose decking we stock. For an outdoor kitchen we install outdoor cabinets built for weather. We bring you to the showrooms we trust and tell you what has held up.

We do not install cabinets from a big-box store, and we do not reface or repaint existing cabinets as a job on its own. Those are good jobs for other contractors, and we are happy to give you a name.

Installed Properly

Cabinets are set level and plumb, scribed to walls that are never straight, with fillers, end panels, crown, and light rail so a run looks built in. Counters are templated after the cabinets are in, so the seams land where they should. Hardware, soft-close hinges and slides, and the pull-outs you asked for go in with them.

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Questions

Questions We Get

Can an island have a sink or a cooktop?

Yes. A sink needs a drain and a vent routed through the floor framing, which is straightforward over a basement and more involved over a slab. A cooktop needs a dedicated circuit or gas line and a hood above or a downdraft. We plan both into the remodel.

What is the smallest kitchen that can take an island?

One with about three and a half feet of clear floor on every side of it. Narrower than that, a peninsula gives you the counter and the seating without blocking the room.

Do you install cabinets we buy ourselves?

Not from a big-box store, and not as a stand-alone job. Inside a full remodel we install custom-built, semi-custom, or Wolf cabinets sourced through our suppliers, and we help you choose.

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

Full Kitchen RemodelsDown to the studs and back: layout, cabinets, counters, lighting, plumbing, floor, and trim as one job.Layout Changes and Walls RemovedTaking out the wall to the dining room, moving the sink to the window, fitting the island that never fit.Small and Galley Kitchen RemodelsThe same full replacement inside the footprint you have, with the layout and the storage squeezed for everything they can give.Kitchen Bars, Butler’s Pantries, and Coffee StationsA bar wall with a wine cooler, a butler’s pantry with lit glass uppers, or a pantry wall where there was none.All kitchen remodelingThe service page, with the full scope and every project.

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 remodel
5 stars on Google

Ready to Talk About an Island?

Every great project starts with your vision for your home. Tell us what you’re thinking. We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.

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