Kitchen Remodeling in Chelsea, MI

Sixteen miles southwest: how a Chelsea kitchen moves along

Chelsea is close enough that Nick can be on site often. Your first meeting is at home: a relaxed interview about how you cook, gather and store, then a careful measure. A retainer begins the design, which includes a few layout directions, a floor plan, 3D renderings and cabinet elevations, followed by installation drawings and a pricing presentation.

For finishes, Nick brings samples to your house so tile and stone can be seen in Chelsea daylight, and bills the time hourly or as a package. After you approve the purchase agreement, cabinetry and materials are ordered through Kitchen NV. Partner contractors then build, with Nick checking progress through install.

Kitchen remodeling in Chelsea, MI near Main Street and beyond

Kitchen RemodelingA full kitchen remodel for older Chelsea houses where the kitchen was carved out of a back porch or pantry, so the plan has to borrow space, straighten a doorway or move the sink to the outside wall.Kitchen CabinetsKitchen cabinets made to fit around chimneys, radiators and tall windows in downtown homes, with fillers and scribe strips drawn in so nothing looks pushed into a room built before standard sizes.Custom Kitchen CabinetsCustom kitchen cabinets where the tall ceilings of older houses near Main Street outrun stock sizes and standard boxes would leave an awkward band of empty wall above the uppers.Kitchen DesignKitchen design for newer subdivision homes near I-94 whose owners want a builder-grade layout reworked on paper, with drawings and elevations ready to bid out to their own contractor.Laundry Room & Mudroom RemodelA laundry and mudroom remodel for older in-town houses where the back door, basement stairs and washer all crowd the kitchen wall and boots end up on the floor.Aging-in-Place RemodelingFor Chelsea residents planning to stay within walking distance of downtown, aging-in-place remodeling covers wider clearances, brighter task lighting, reachable storage and a first-floor bath in a house with steep stairs.Bathroom RemodelingBathroom remodeling for the single upstairs bath tucked under the eaves of older houses, or the oversized primary bath with a corner tub in newer ones.

Clock-tower-era houses and the newer neighborhoods off I-94

Chelsea's older houses, within a few blocks of downtown, date mostly from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Their kitchens tend to be small, with a chimney or radiator in the way, a back door and a basement door competing for the same wall, and ceilings tall enough to make stock cabinets look short. Plaster, original trim and partly updated wiring are all common, so the partner contractor joins Nick early to check what is behind the walls.

The age of those houses traces back to the railroad. The settlement first called Kendon was platted and renamed Chelsea in 1850, when the Michigan Central station opened; it became a village in 1889 and a city only in 2004. Downtown's commercial blocks were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 as the Chelsea Commercial Historic District, and the older residential streets around them filled in over the decades that followed.

The newer subdivisions around town offer more room but less character: builder islands, cabinets of one height and lighting in a grid. Those kitchens need a better plan and finishes with some warmth, not more square footage.