Kitchen Remodeling in Creve Coeur, Missouri

Creve Coeur homes and this kind of project

Because Creve Coeur is made up of mid-century ranches alongside new infill homes, the first thing we check for a kitchen remodel here is which walls bear load, where plumbing and ducts run and how much room the electrical panel has left.

The housing stock here: mid-century ranches and split-levels on large lots, 1970s and 1980s two-stories, and new infill homes.

Opening a walled-off ranch kitchen is usually simple structurally and transforms the house.

What we find inside Creve Coeur homes

Original kitchens are small and closed off from the living areas. Opening them is usually simple in a ranch, where roof trusses or a center beam carry the load. Electrical service often needs upgrading.

Mid-century kitchens in Creve Coeur are compact and walled off. In a ranch the fix is often straightforward, since interior partitions carry little load, and opening the kitchen to the living area transforms the house. Electrical service usually needs upgrading to support modern appliances.

What is included

A full Creve Coeur kitchen remodel with us includes design drawings, engineering if walls move, permits, demolition, framing, plumbing, gas, electrical, drywall, flooring, cabinet and countertop installation, tile, trim, paint and appliance hookup. You get a written schedule before we start.

We take on kitchen remodel work in and around neighborhoods off Ladue, Olive and Mason roads.

What we watch for

In Creve Coeur houses the wall between kitchen and dining room frequently carries second-floor joists or hides the main plumbing stack. We open a small inspection hole and check the basement framing below before we tell you what removing it will cost.

Creve Coeur properties tend to be large, level lots, and that affects how we stage materials, where carpenters, a plumber, an electrician, cabinet installers, a countertop fabricator and a tile setter park and how debris leaves the site.

Permits and approvals in Creve Coeur

In Creve Coeur, a kitchen remodel is reviewed by the City of Creve Coeur building division. What follows is rough framing, plumbing, gas, electrical and final inspections.

Interior work like this normally does not involve city zoning on lot coverage and setbacks, though dumpsters and working hours sometimes do, and we check.

Schedule and getting to you

Most Creve Coeur clients see six to ten weeks of construction for a kitchen remodel.

Creve Coeur sits toward the edge of our range: I-64 to I-270 north, under forty minutes outside rush hour. We group trade visits and deliveries carefully for projects at that distance, and we take them on when the scope justifies a dedicated crew.

What moves the price in Creve Coeur

We price kitchen remodeling in Creve Coeur from a site visit, not a square-foot figure. These are the items that change the number.

• Cabinet construction and the number of drawer bases, pull-outs and tall units.
• Countertop square footage, material and the number of cutouts and seams.

More detail

Our step-by-step method for this work, and the factors that move its price, are laid out on the main kitchen remodeling page. More about the area is on our Creve Coeur page.