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Kitchen remodeling in Lakehills, TX typically runs $14,000-$45,000 for a full remodel, and the biggest wildcard here is your foundation and floodplain status before cabinet boxes are ever ordered. We work around Medina Lake, the 78056 ZIP, and the steep rocky lots off Park Road 37 and County Road 271, where a 1970s fishing-camp cabin has different bones than a Hill Country custom build. If you’re in Lakehills and want honest numbers in writing before a single wall moves, call (877) 610-1318. Tom Barrett and his sons run the crews themselves, and Tom answers his own phone.
Key Takeaways
- Full kitchen remodels in Lakehills run $14,000-$45,000; small or partial remodels run $9,000-$20,000.
- Lakefront lots on Medina Lake often carry FEMA floodplain and Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority shoreline easement reviews, even for interior-only kitchen work.
- Every price change arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. Permits pulled and inspections signed on every eligible job.
- Barrett & Sons Construction is owned by Tom Barrett, founded 1998, backed by a written 90-Day Done Right Promise.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Lakehills’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
Tom Barrett has been running jobs in Bandera County long enough to know that a Lakehills kitchen remodel is not the same animal as one in a flatland San Antonio subdivision, and we’re based close enough that our crews and project materials make the drive without drama. For homeowners in Lakehills, that means the person reading your contract is the same person who will stand in your kitchen during final walkthrough. We publish our name, address, and license number, because Tom expects his customers to look it up before they sign anything.
Lakehills homeowners haven’t had an easy history with out-of-town contractors, and we hear the same story over and over: a national outfit quoted one number on the phone, then handed over a different invoice after the cabinets arrived. Our pricing works differently. Every allowance, every scope change, every material substitution gets written down as a change order before we spend a dollar of your money. The allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date, and Tom will tell you that himself.
We answer our own phones, live, 24 hours a day, and our crew members are background-checked and uniformed on every visit to a Lakehills home. Ask anyone on your street off Highway 1283, or look up the license number yourself.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in Lakehills
Kitchen Design & Layout
The design phase sets the whole job, and in Lakehills it often starts with questions that don’t apply six miles inland. We sit down with you, look at the existing slab or pier-and-beam foundation, check the finished-floor elevation against the FEMA benchmark, and only then do we start drawing cabinet runs and island placements. A 1970s fishing-camp galley off Park Road 37 doesn’t always have room for an island that a new build near Fair Oaks Ranch takes for granted, so we plan around the actual structure, not a magazine spread.
Custom Cabinetry Installation & Refacing
Cabinet installation in Lakehills runs $4,000-$13,000 depending on whether we’re refacing existing boxes or ordering full KraftMaid lineups for a complete gut. We measure everything against the finished floor, not the old floor, and that distinction matters on Medina Lake shoreline lots where slab elevation can shift the whole cabinet order. If we reface rather than replace, we still pull faces and doors off carefully, because half the old cabins in the 78056 ZIP have shiplap walls that were never meant to carry modern hardware.
Quartz & Granite Countertops
Countertop installation in Lakehills runs $2,000-$6,500. We template only after the slab, cabinets, and rough-in are locked, because a Cambria quartz run that’s sized to the wrong elevation is a reorder you shouldn’t have to pay for. On steep rocky lots, delivery of full slabs means planning the route in advance, and our crews know which driveways can take a flatbed and which need a smaller transfer truck. We’ll tell you that before you commit to a slab.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
Backsplash work runs $800-$2,500 in Lakehills, and it’s the sort of thing people think about last but we plan for early. Once the tile is on the wall, changing the layout becomes expensive, so we nail down plumbing stub-outs and electrical locations before the first tile is cut. For flooring, we see a lot of homes where the original 1960s floors weren’t designed for modern kitchen traffic, and we’ll recommend underlayment and subfloor fixes before we lay anything over them.
For the full scope of what our crews can handle, see our Kitchen Remodeling hub page. And if you want to know how we approach work in and around the lake, the Kitchen Remodeling in Lakehills page runs through our local coverage.
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 Lakehills
We install and service premium brands you can look up, not mystery boxes off a van: KraftMaid and Cambria across kitchens, and on the exterior side we work with Techo-Bloc pavers for outdoor kitchen and hardscape tie-ins, along with Cambridge Pavers where the project calls for it. On a Lakehills remodel, the brand’s lead time often sets the calendar, especially for custom cabinetry and quartz. We keep open lines with our suppliers so we can tell you honestly whether a specific line will arrive in four weeks or four months before you sign the order.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in Lakehills Homes
- Original slabs below the FEMA finished-floor benchmark. We find it on lots around Medina Lake where the 1970s cabin was built before current floodplain rules. Even an interior-only kitchen remodel can trigger a review if the existing slab sits too low, and the fix usually means a slab lift or engineered floor height adjustment before cabinets and countertops are ordered.
- No real subfloor under 1960s and 1970s fishing-camp kitchens. Some of the old cabins off Park Road 37 and County Road 271 are shiplap over open-air skirting. You tear out the cabinets and there’s nothing underneath to anchor modern cabinetry, so we reframe and build a structural floor before the rough-in starts.
- Sharp limestone just inches below the surface. The Edwards Plateau limestone throughout Bandera County means even moving a drain line for a kitchen island can require hydraulic rock-breaking equipment. A homeowner who doesn’t know this gets a surprise invoice; our crews plan for it in the initial scope, in writing.
- Spring flash-flood delivery windows that wreck schedules. When heavy rain hits the Hill Country, creek levels rise fast and uncurbed limestone driveways turn into chutes. We schedule slab, cabinet, and millwork deliveries around weather windows and keep buffer days in the calendar, because a Quartz slab stuck on a truck in Helotes doesn’t do anyone any good.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in Lakehills, TX
A full kitchen remodel in Lakehills runs $14,000-$45,000. Small and partial remodels run $9,000-$20,000. Those are real numbers for our market, and here’s what they cover by line item:
| Scope | Typical Range in Lakehills |
|---|---|
| Full Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 - $45,000 |
| Small & Partial 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 you from the bottom to the top of these ranges in Lakehills is usually one of three things: a slab elevation fix, a structural reframe under an old cabin kitchen, or premium materials with long lead times. Custom millwork, architectural finishes, and designer coordination all push the number up, but they’re also what makes the finished kitchen worth what you paid. We write every allowance and every scope item into the contract, and if something changes, you get a written change order before the change happens. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate, and we’ll give you a line-item number you can check against any other bid in the 78056 ZIP.
We Also Serve Cities Near Lakehills
Beyond Lakehills, our crews work regularly in Helotes, Lackland Air Force Base, Leon Valley, and Fair Oaks Ranch. If you’re close by and want a contractor who shows up with written numbers, call us.
Serving Lakehills, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Lakehills 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 Lakehills
Yes, in many cases you do. Bandera County and the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority can both take an interest when the structure sits inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, even if the work is interior-only. It doesn’t mean the project is dead, but it does mean we need to confirm the existing finished-floor elevation before we order cabinet boxes or schedule templating. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk the property and tell you exactly what applies to your cabin.
The typical approach is a slab lift or an engineered floor height adjustment inside the kitchen footprint, not a whole-house teardown. We saw this on a lakefront cabin off Park Road 37 where the existing slab sat two inches below the benchmark, and the fix meant re-drawing the rough-in before the Cambria countertops could be templated. The key is catching it during the permit phase, not after cabinets arrive.
Custom cabinetry, quartz or granite slabs, and specialty millwork set the calendar. We’re candid about this from the first meeting: lead times from the factory, not labor on site, usually determine the completion date. We lock the design and elevation first, then order, and we’ll give you a realistic window for every line item. Call (877) 610-1318 for a schedule that matches your actual selections, not a generic estimate.
Sometimes, but not always. If the existing cabin sits on a pier-and-beam foundation with no real subfloor, you’re looking at structural reframing before any kitchen rough-in, and that can trigger septic and drainage reviews if we’re moving water lines or adding an island. On steep lots, the Edwards Plateau limestone makes any trenching expensive, so we scope the rock work upfront and put it in writing. That way you know before we start.
Potentially, yes. A kitchen remodel on a Medina Lake shoreline lot can carry two overlapping regulatory burdens at once: a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area designation that sets minimum finished-floor elevations and a GBRA shoreline easement that restricts how close any structure can sit to the waterline. Even an interior-only job can get pulled into the review if the existing slab is below the floodplain benchmark. That’s why we check permits and elevation before finalizing any cabinet or countertop order. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll look up your lot’s status before you spend a dollar on materials.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Lakehills, TX with kitchen remodeling and custom cabinet work since 1998.