Kitchen Remodeling in Holly Springs, NC

Cabinetry, counters, lighting and layout handled by one crew, sequenced so your kitchen is out of service for weeks instead of months.

In Holly Springs you are usually dealing with production built houses being upgraded to what they should have been, which changes how the work has to be sequenced. Sunset Ridge and 12 Oaks both run active architectural committees, so exterior colors, deck materials and railing styles get reviewed before work starts.

What the price covers

• Countertop templating and installation. Laser templated after the cabinets are installed and level, then cut, polished and set with seams placed where they read the least.
• Tile backsplash and flooring tie in. Layout planned around outlets, the range hood and appliance panels so cuts land in the field rather than at a focal point, set flat with grout lines that run true.
• Fixtures, lighting, trim and finish. Faucet, hardware, under cabinet lighting, paint and trim, then a punch walk where you list anything you want changed.

Kitchen Remodeling in Holly Springs, in practice

Cabinet lead time is the real schedule for a kitchen remodel, not the labor. Stock cabinets can ship in two to three weeks, but semi custom lines that most Holly Springs homeowners choose run eight to twelve weeks from the day the order is placed, and a custom shop can run longer. We lock cabinet, countertop and appliance selections before demolition starts, so that order clock is already running while we are still doing rough in work, rather than starting it after the kitchen is torn apart. Sequenced correctly, a Wake County kitchen is unusable for four to eight weeks of actual construction. Sequenced poorly, that same kitchen can sit half finished for months waiting on a cabinet order that should have shipped in week one.

Cabinet layout starts with how you actually cook, not with a symmetrical drawing. We walk the room and note where the stove, sink and refrigerator sit relative to each other, since that distance decides whether the kitchen works or only looks finished in a photo. Most Holly Springs houses were framed with walls out of square by a quarter inch or more over a run of cabinets, especially in older stock, and stock cabinet boxes are square. We scribe the end panels and fillers to the actual wall rather than caulking a gap, the difference between a cabinet run that looks built in and one that looks dropped into the room. That fitting step alone can take a full day on a long wall.

Questions from Holly Springs homeowners