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Practical notes on cost, timing, cabinets and countertops, written from the jobs rather than from a keyword list.
Kitchen Remodel Permits: What Actually Needs One
The permit is almost never about the cabinets. It is about what moves behind them. New Jersey publishes one statewide list of what needs one and New York leaves
Read the articleRefacing or Replacing Kitchen Cabinets: How to Decide
Cabinet refacing vs replacing gets answered with price, and price is the wrong first question. What your boxes are made of decides whether refacing is even avai
Read the articleKitchen Remodel Mistakes, and the Order That Prevents Most of Them
The common kitchen remodel mistakes are not about taste. They are about sequence: ordering before the design is final, and booking trades in the wrong order. He
Read the articleCustom, Semi Custom or Stock Cabinets: How to Choose
Custom is not automatically better. What decides it is your room: whether the walls are square, what the ceiling height is, and how much of the storage has to w
Read the articleHow to Choose a Kitchen Countertop
Pick a countertop by how you cook, not by how the sample looks in a showroom. What matters is heat, water, and whether you want to think about it again.
Read the articleKitchen Trends: What Is Worth Doing and What Dates
Some kitchen trends solve a real problem and some are a finish that will look of its decade. Here is how to tell which is which before you pay for it.
Read the articleAsk us instead
If the question is about your room, reading will only take you so far. Bring us the room and we will answer it directly, including when the answer is that you should not do the work this year.