Kitchen Remodeling

What a kitchen remodel with us looks like

Most kitchens we’re called into have the same problem, and it isn’t the countertops. It’s that the room was laid out for a way of cooking and living that stopped matching the household years ago. So before anyone talks about finishes, we spend a session in your kitchen watching how you actually use it. We look at where the bottlenecks are, what you reach for daily, who else is in the room while you cook.

That session drives a layout study: usually three options, drawn to scale, showing what each one costs and what it would take structurally. Sometimes the answer is that a wall comes down. Often it’s that the refrigerator and the sink are three steps too far apart and always have been.

Where the money actually goes

Homeowners are frequently surprised by the split. Cabinetry and millwork take the largest share of almost every kitchen, usually by a wide margin. Labor comes next — demolition, framing, installation and finish work. Then countertops, tile and the finishes you actually look at, then the mechanical, electrical and plumbing behind the walls, and finally permits and project management.

Appliances are the line most people overestimate. They matter, but they rarely decide the budget.

We give you the real split for your kitchen as line items in the proposal rather than one number, so you can see what moving money between them would actually buy you.

The structural question

A surprising share of Lincoln kitchens sit under a load-bearing wall that separates the kitchen from the dining or living room. Removing it is very often the single change that transforms the space, and it is not a DIY-adjacent decision.

We handle this end to end: a licensed structural engineer sizes the beam, we pull the permit, we build temporary shoring, and we schedule the inspection. It is a real line item rather than a detail — the cost turns on the span and on whether the load path can reach an existing foundation, and we price it before you commit to the layout that needs it.

What you can expect from us

• A single point of contact for the whole project — you will not be chasing subs
• A written schedule with named milestones, updated weekly
• Dust containment, floor protection and a temporary kitchen setup
• Daily site cleanup, because you still live here