Kitchen Remodeling in Farmington, MI

From the first Farmington appointment to a finished kitchen

The first consultation takes place in your kitchen and runs like an interview: how many people cook, what never fits, what you would keep. He measures closely, since a two-inch difference decides whether a dishwasher or a pantry pull-out fits in a small room.

With a design retainer he prepares layout options, plans, elevations and renderings, then drawings and pricing. Selections come next. With a signed purchase agreement, the Farmington cabinet order goes through Kitchen NV, and trusted trade partners carry out the build while Nick returns at milestones.

Bungalow and Cape Cod kitchens with a basement stair

Older Farmington houses share a set of constraints. Three openings usually fight over the same few walls: the door to the yard, the stair down to the basement and the way through to the dining room. Windows are small and sit low, radiators or old ductwork take up corners, and the original single bath is often upstairs or across the house.

With little floor area to gain, the design work focuses on making each wall work harder: cabinets to the ceiling, drawers instead of deep base shelves, a narrow pantry where a broom closet was and lighting that makes a small room feel larger. Sometimes opening one doorway wider is enough to connect the kitchen to the dining room without losing a wall of storage.

Most of these houses sit on full basements, which helps: new drains and circuits can travel under the floor, so moving a sink or adding island outlets is far less disruptive than on a slab. Plaster walls, older wiring and floors that have settled toward the middle of the house are the usual discoveries, and partner contractors plan for them before cabinets arrive.

Kitchen remodeling in Farmington for compact older houses

Small Kitchen RemodelMost Farmington kitchens in the bungalow and Cape Cod streets are compact, so the design has to win storage and counter length without adding a single square foot to the house.Kitchen RemodelingA full remodel lets old wiring, plaster and galvanized or cast-iron plumbing be updated while the walls are open, instead of patching around them a second time a few years later.Kitchen DesignPrecise drawings decide what fits around a basement stair, a back door and a dining-room opening, the three things that claim most of the wall space in older Farmington kitchens.Kitchen CabinetsCustom sizing captures the odd inches stock cabinets leave behind in rooms with out-of-plumb plaster walls, and fillers are scribed to the actual wall rather than to the plan.Kitchen Lighting DesignSmall, low windows in 1940s houses leave counters dim most of the year; recessed, under-cabinet and pendant layers are planned with the cabinets so the room reads brighter and larger.Aging-in-Place RemodelingLong-time owners near downtown often want a kitchen they can use safely for decades: drawer bases, lever faucets, better lighting and a clear path from the side door.Bathroom RemodelingMany of these houses still have one original bathroom, and redoing it in the same project as the kitchen shares the plumbing work and the disruption only once.