Kitchens
Kitchens are the room in a home where the design decisions and the construction decisions are most entangled. Ventilation determines where the range goes. Range placement drives the hood specification, which constrains the cabinet run above it. The room that looks inevitable in the finished photographs rarely felt inevitable during the design phase. That's the part worth getting right.
What this scope includes
Kitchen scope includes demolition and framing, plumbing rough-in and trim-out, electrical and lighting, gas line work, cabinetry installation, stone or solid-surface countertops, backsplash tile, appliance setting, ventilation, and hardware. Projects that open the kitchen to an adjacent room include structural work — beam installation, load-bearing modifications — as part of the same scope. Layout, storage planning, and appliance integration are part of the design phase that precedes construction.
Material & finish considerations
Cabinetry construction — box material, drawer box specification, soft-close mechanism, interior accessories — has more daily consequence than the door profile, and a wider range of quality at similar price points. Stone surface selection carries real maintenance implications: honed versus polished, quartzite versus marble versus engineered, edge profiles that hold up under a decade of use. Appliance integration shapes the cabinet layout before the first door is hung: ventilation clearances, panel depth requirements, gas routing. These are the decisions that determine how a kitchen functions at year five.
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Tell us about the kitchen and what you're working with. We can usually tell you within the first conversation whether the scope you have in mind is realistic.