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Kitchen Remodeling in Rockland County
Kitchen remodeling in Rockland County, NY, handled start to finish by a licensed and insured contractor: demolition, cabinets, countertops, tile, flooring, lighting, and paint, with the licensed electrical and plumbing work coordinated as part of the project. Most full kitchens run three to six weeks on site. Every kitchen is quoted, not billed hourly.
A kitchen is the hardest room in a house to renovate, because everything in it depends on everything else. Cabinets have to be set before countertops can be measured. The template for the counters takes a week to come back. Appliances have to fit the openings you built for them, not the ones in the brochure. Most kitchen projects that go badly do not go badly because someone hung a cabinet crooked. They go badly because nobody sequenced the work, and the family ate takeout for two extra months. We plan the sequence before demolition starts, and we tell you the order and the timeline in writing.
What we handle
- Full gut kitchens, down to the studs and back
- Cabinet replacement, refacing, and new islands
- Countertops in quartz, granite, butcher block, and laminate
- Backsplash and floor tile
- Opening a wall between the kitchen and dining room, where the framing allows
- Cabinet-only refreshes when the layout already works
A written scope and a real sequence before anything comes out
Before demolition, you get the full scope in writing: what is being removed, what is going in, which finishes you selected, and the order the work happens in. Kitchens have long lead items, and countertops in particular cannot be measured until the cabinets are physically set, which puts a fixed week or more between two stages no matter how fast anyone works. Knowing that up front is the difference between a project that feels organized and one that feels stalled.
You keep a working kitchen for as much of it as possible
For most families, especially larger households, losing a kitchen for a month is the real cost of the project, not the invoice. Where the layout allows it, the sequence is planned so the sink and a working run of counter come back early, and a temporary setup gets you through the gap. This gets discussed at the walkthrough, before decisions are locked, because it sometimes changes the order things are done in.
Layout changes are honest about what the house allows
Removing a wall between a kitchen and a dining room transforms a house, and it is the single most requested change. Whether it can be done, and what it costs, depends entirely on whether that wall carries load and what runs inside it. That answer comes from looking at the framing, not from a catalog. If the wall can come out, you are told what is involved. If it cannot come out affordably, you are told that too, before you have paid for a design built around it.
Refacing, when the cabinets are worth keeping
A lot of kitchens do not need new cabinets. If the boxes are solid and the layout already works, refacing replaces the doors, the drawer fronts, and the hardware and refinishes the visible frames, which is most of what you actually look at. It typically runs around half the cost of new cabinetry, takes a few days rather than a few weeks, and skips living through a gut. It is the wrong call when the boxes themselves are failing or when the layout is the real problem, and we will say so rather than sell you the cheaper job. The same applies to bathroom vanities and anywhere else there is cabinetry worth saving.
What is not included
Additions and new construction are not taken on, so a kitchen that requires bumping out the exterior of the house is outside the scope. Appliances are ordinarily supplied by the homeowner so you buy at the price you find, and the openings are built to the specifications of the units you actually purchased.
Honest pricing
Quoted by the job, after a free walkthrough.
Project work is quoted as a flat price, not billed hourly. The walkthrough and the estimate are free, and the quote is one number covering the job, broken out by scope so you can see each part and take anything out. Members save. Licensed and insured, NY License #H26-626.
Questions about kitchen remodeling
Most full kitchens run three to six weeks on site once demolition begins, and cabinet refreshes run one to two. The bigger variable is lead time on materials before the work starts. Cabinets commonly take four to eight weeks to arrive, and countertops add about a week after the cabinets are set because they cannot be templated before then. Nothing gets demolished until the long-lead items are accounted for.
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Cabinet Refacing
A new kitchen look in days, at about half the cost, keeping the cabinets you have.
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Showers, backsplashes, and floors, set on a base that was prepared correctly.
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