Kitchen Remodeling in Commerce Township, MI

Forty minutes from Pinckney, one planned meeting at a time

After an initial call, Nick comes out to the house, asks a long list of questions about how you live there, and measures the kitchen. On lake homes he also notes the deck and dock entry, window heights and where wet traffic comes in, because those set the layout.

Design work runs under a retainer and ends with drawings, renderings and a pricing presentation. Selections follow with samples seen in your own lake light, then the cabinet order through Kitchen NV and a build by partner contractors, with Nick on site for key milestones.

Rebuilt cottages and newer subdivisions around the lakes

Many lake lots in Commerce once held small seasonal cottages. Some were winterized and expanded, leaving kitchens with low ceilings and awkward additions; others were torn down for larger houses with open kitchens facing the water. Both share a constraint: the lake wall is glass, so storage has to live elsewhere, and the kitchen becomes the hallway between deck and house.

In the expanded cottages, the kitchen often straddles the original structure and a later addition, so the floor may step or slope where they meet and the ceiling height changes mid-room. We check what sits under the floor — crawl space, slab or a later basement — before planning a sink or island move, since that decides how plumbing and venting can travel.

Away from the water, 1990s and 2000s subdivisions have open plans with builder cabinets and modest islands, the same story as much of western Oakland. Those kitchens are usually a re-plan within the existing footprint. The township runs water and sewer service through the same department; where a house is still on a private well, it needs room for treatment equipment and a fixture plan that suits the water.

Kitchen remodeling in Commerce Township, lake or subdivision

Lake House Kitchen RemodelLake kitchens on Commerce, Long and Union lakes juggle view windows, deck and dock traffic and storage for summer guests, so the plan starts from the glass wall and the path in from the water.Kitchen RemodelingExpanded cottages often need a full remodel to join old and new sections into one working kitchen, with a single cabinet line and floor carried across walls and ceilings that never quite lined up.Kitchen Design3D renderings test how an island and its seating relate to the lake view, and how reflected light off the water lands on finishes, before any cabinet for a Commerce house is ordered.Kitchen CabinetsTall pantry walls on the interior side replace the uppers that lake windows leave no room for, and in subdivision kitchens new cabinets run to the ceiling instead of stopping at builder height.Kitchen Island Design & InstallationOpen plans in the subdivisions between the lakes usually have room for a larger island than the builder installed; sizing it for seating, prep and walkway clearances is often the biggest single gain.Kitchen CountertopsCounters near a slider to the deck take sunscreen, wet glasses and sand all summer, so we compare quartz, granite and quartzite for staining and for how each reads in strong lake light.Whole-Home & Interior RemodelingLake-level walkouts, mudrooms and bars are common add-ons to a Commerce kitchen project, and planning them together keeps towels, coolers and boat gear out of the cooking zone.