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Kitchen remodeling in Cleburne typically runs $14,000 to $45,000 for a full renovation, with smaller partial remodels starting around $9,000. The wide spread comes down to what’s hiding behind your walls, especially in the older homes around the courthouse square. Barrett & Sons Construction has been opening up Cleburne kitchens since 1998, and we know this town’s houses well enough to quote honestly before the first cabinet comes out. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk your kitchen together.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Cleburne’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his name is on the truck, the contract, and the license. When you call our office, a live person answers, not a voicemail box. When a crew pulls up to your Cleburne home, it’s Tom’s sons and their teams, not strangers dispatched from another state. We publish our license number, and you’re welcome to look it up before signing anything. That’s how we’ve built a local reputation that holds up at the hardware store on Saturday morning.
Cleburne homeowners see the same faces year after year. We’ve worked in neighborhoods off Nolan River Road, near the high school, and throughout the historic district around the courthouse. The 90-Day Done Right Promise sits on every contract in writing: if something isn’t right, one call brings Tom back. That’s not a warranty buried in fine print. It’s a handshake that follows the job.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in Cleburne
Full Kitchen Remodeling
A full kitchen remodel in Cleburne usually means gutting the room to studs, rebuilding the layout, and updating every system along the way. That’s where our Kitchen Remodeling team earns its keep. We’ve opened enough Cleburne walls to know that a 1920s Craftsman near the square hides different problems than a 1980s ranch off Bethel Road. Every full remodel gets a written scope, written allowances, and a third-party inspection signed at rough-in.
Cabinets & Countertops
Cabinet installation in Cleburne runs $4,000 to $13,000 depending on the footprint and whether you’re refacing or replacing. Countertops add $2,000 to $6,500. We stock KraftMaid for cabinets and Cambria for quartz surfaces, materials you can look up yourself. The old homes in Cleburne often have odd dimensions from decades of settling, so standard off-the-shelf boxes don’t always seat properly. We measure, level, and shim as needed, because a cabinet that’s out of plumb by a quarter inch will annoy you every time you open it.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
Backsplash installation in Cleburne runs $800 to $2,500, and the right tile job depends heavily on what’s behind the wall. On Cleburne’s expansive clay soils, a wall that shifts seasonally will crack grout lines within a year if the substrate isn’t prepped correctly. We use uncoupling membranes and flexible thinset where the structure needs it. Tile and flooring in an older Cleburne kitchen also means checking the subfloor’s flatness, because slab movement here isn’t a myth, it’s a measurement.
Kitchen Design & Layout
Layout drives everything, especially in Cleburne homes where the original kitchen was built for a family that didn’t own a microwave. We design around how you actually cook, where the afternoon light hits, and how traffic moves between the back door and the dining room. A galley kitchen in a 1940s cottage off Main Street needs a different plan than an open-concept conversion in a newer build near the high school. We draw it out before we swing a hammer, and every change to that drawing comes as a written change order before it happens.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Cleburne
We install brands you can research, not mystery products off a van. In kitchens, that means KraftMaid cabinets and Cambria quartz. On the window side of a Cleburne remodel, we carry Simonton and Ply Gem windows, which matters when the Texas sun beats on a south-facing kitchen bay. If your remodel includes exterior work, PGT impact-rated windows are available for Tornado Alley conditions. We order direct and stage locally, so Cleburne customers aren’t waiting on a warehouse three states away.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in Cleburne Homes
- Diagonal drywall cracks near corners. Cleburne’s position on Johnson County’s Blackland Prairie clay, plus the documented 2008-2009 earthquake swarms, means those cracks are often structural, not cosmetic. We treat every opened kitchen wall as a diagnostic before we consider finish work.
- Knob-and-tube wiring behind old plaster. Homes built before 1950 around the courthouse square still carry this stuff. Once a wall is open, code requires an upgrade, and that’s a smart upgrade to make while the framing is exposed anyway.
- Rotted subfloor under the sink. Decades of small leaks, combined with Cleburne’s humidity and clay-heavy soil, do a number on the plywood under a kitchen sink. We see it often enough that our initial scope always includes a written allowance for subfloor repair.
- Galvanized plumbing at the end of its life. Local water chemistry corrodes old galvanized lines from the inside out, and pinhole leaks often appear within a year of a tear-out if those pipes weren’t replaced. We flag them during demo, not after the backsplash is installed.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in Cleburne, TX
Here’s what Cleburne homeowners can expect to budget, based on jobs we’ve completed in the 76031 and 76033 ZIP codes:
| Service | Typical Cleburne Range |
|---|---|
| Full Kitchen Remodeling | $14,000 - $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 - $20,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 - $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 - $6,500 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 - $2,500 |
| Kitchen Island Installation | $3,000 - $10,000 |
What moves a Cleburne kitchen from the low end to the high end? An older home near the courthouse may need structural reframing, wiring replacement, or plumbing replacement once walls are open, and those are board-entitled code upgrades, not optional extras. A newer tract build on the city’s outskirts usually has fewer surprises. Every quote includes written allowances for exactly this reason, and any price change arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate, and bring us your room dimensions if you have them.
We Also Serve Cities Near Cleburne
If you’re in Cleburne or the surrounding Johnson County communities, we’ve got crews nearby. We regularly work with homeowners in Keene, Joshua, Burleson, and Crowley, and we schedule throughout the area every week. A quick drive up Highway 67 or down Nolan River Road puts us at your front door with a tape measure and a notepad.
Serving Cleburne, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Cleburne area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Kitchen Remodeling in Cleburne
Cleburne’s Blackland Prairie clay shrinks hard in summer drought and heaves significantly after heavy rain, which puts real movement stress on slabs and walls. Before any tile goes down, we check the slab for flatness and existing cracks, and we specify an uncoupling membrane or flexible thinset where movement is evident. On older homes, we may recommend pier work or structural consultation before finish work begins. If you’ve noticed diagonal cracks in your Cleburne kitchen, call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll take a look during a free estimate.
We stop, document it, and write a change order for the client’s approval before we proceed. This is exactly why our contracts include written allowances for open-wall discoveries. On a 1920s Craftsman near the historic courthouse square, our crew opened a kitchen wall and found a load-bearing header that had sagged a full inch from decades of clay heave, with fresh diagonal cracks at the corner. We installed temporary shoring, reframed with a code-sized engineered beam, and brought in a third-party inspector for the rough-in sign-off. The homeowner had budgeted for cabinets, not structure, and because the allowances were in writing, the added piers and beam work didn’t blow up the draw schedule.
Yes, in a practical way. Those swarms, tied to Barnett Shale wastewater injection, hit 2.5 to 3.3 magnitude in a historically aseismic area, and Cleburne builders learned to treat fresh diagonal drywall cracks more seriously than typical settling. That habit carries into framing: when we open a Cleburne wall, we look for evidence of minor seismic movement and adjust our framing or structural recommendations accordingly. Contractors who relocate here from elsewhere in the Metroplex don’t always know to look for that. It’s one of the reasons local experience matters on a Cleburne kitchen remodel.
Because the older home carries structural and systems burdens that a new tract build doesn’t. Late-1800s Victorian and early-1900s Craftsman houses around the courthouse square routinely need foundation pier work, structural reframing, and full electrical and plumbing upgrades to meet current Texas Residential Construction Code standards. A new build on the city’s outskirts was framed and wired to modern code six months ago. The footprint may be identical, but the work behind the drywall isn’t. Our quotes reflect that difference with written allowances, and every price change is a written change order before any work happens.
You can get a written scope and written allowances, which is more honest than a fixed number that pretends a 1920s Cleburne wall hides nothing. A fixed quote with no allowances is a dispute waiting to happen, because once that wall is open, code-triggered upgrades are not optional. We lay out exactly what’s included, what the allowances cover, and what a change order looks like if we find something unexpected. That’s how Tom Barrett has done it since 1998, and it’s why his name stays on the contract. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate and talk numbers for your specific Cleburne home.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Cleburne since 1998.