Planning stage: What are your goals for your newly renovated home?
Improve looks
Your style and preferences
Improve function
Updated appliances
Better work space
Entertaining space
More storage and more organization
Multiple uses (dining, desk, storage, prep, etc.)
Increase kitchen space
Increase value of your home
Changes to accommodate both young children, grandparents and people with special needs
Design Process
Work with designer to create a floor plan
Work with builder or contractor to determine structural changes
Possible wall removal?
Addition to kitchen?
Replace windows? Change placement of windows?
Plumbing changes, if necessary
Wall preparation
Electrical plan developed
Type and placement of lights
Placements of switches and outlets
Estimate for cabinets and entire project
Select specific appliances.
Select specific wood, wood stain or paint, door style.
Order cabinets (specific appliances are needed before cabinet ordering can be placed.)
Establish schedule for work to be done at your home prior to cabinet installation
Selection of other important kitchen elements
Countertop material – we provide preferred vendors and offer advice
Granite – visit various stone yards to select
Quartz surface – we offer Caesarstone and have samples
Tile – our tile consultant will expertly help you
Wood top – butcher block and many other wood surfaces available
Other possibilities: concrete, acrylic solid surface, laminate
Backsplash treatment
5” matching granite or quartz or stone
Tile backsplash from wall cabinet to countertop
Flooring
Tile – our tile consultant can help out (additional fee for her services)
Engineered wood
Linoleum or Vinyl
Cork or alternative surface
Light fixtures
Ambient lighting – usually can lights
Under cabinet lighting
Pendants – over islands or peninsulas
Surface mounted – over sink or other areas
Lighting inside wall cabinets with glass doors or lighting in open cabinets
Finishing touches
Paint color chosen
Cabinet hardware chosen
Work project starts
Before work starts, an alternate area of your home should be set up for a temporary kitchen
Kitchen must be emptied and items safely stored away from kitchen work
Demolition and removal of all old materials
Rough in Electrical
Rough in Plumbing
Drywall work
Priming and painting
Cabinets installed
Sub tops installed on base cabinets
Countertops template (precise measuring)
Flooring installed
Countertops installed
Backsplash installed
Appliances installed
Electrical trim installed
Plumbing fixtures installed
Paint touch up; cabinet touch up
Project is completed
Walk through with you, to determine the “Punch list” of little finishing tasks
We stand behind our kitchen remodel projects!
Limited lifetime warranty on cabinets
Warranty on drawer glides and soft close hardware
We will correct any problems that arise due to our installation and cabinet failure.
If you have any adjustments needed down the road on your new cabinets or work we have done, give us a call. We will come out and make those adjustments for you, free of charge.