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AfterFast, Reliable Kitchen Remodeling Across North Hollywood
A full kitchen remodel in North Hollywood typically runs $14,000 to $45,000, with small kitchen remodels starting around $9,000. Most jobs take four to eight weeks depending on what’s hiding in the walls. If you’re planning a kitchen remodel in North Hollywood, call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk the job with you before we quote anything.
We’ve spent 29 years opening up kitchens across the San Fernando Valley, and North Hollywood has its own set of rules. The housing stock runs from 1950s stucco ranches to 1960s garden apartments with tuck-under parking, and almost every one of those buildings carries a surprise or two behind the drywall. Our crews live in the Valley. We know the LADBS counter, we know the soft-story retrofit database, and we know what a July heat wave does to tile mortar. When you call, a live person answers. Not a voicemail box, not an out-of-state call center.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is North Hollywood’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his sons run the crews. That’s not marketing copy. Tom’s name, address, and license number are published and verifiable, and he’ll tell you to look them up before you sign anything. We pull permits on every eligible job, and the inspector signs off before drywall goes up. If you’ve been burned by a national outfit that quoted one price on the phone and handed you a different bill at the door, we’re the other kind of contractor.
North Hollywood homeowners call us because we answer the phone ourselves, and because the 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every contract. If something isn’t done right, Tom comes back and makes it right. One call. That’s the whole promise. We also insist on written change orders before any scope change touches the job, because an allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date. Most North Hollywood remodels turn up something unexpected. The difference is whether you hear about it in writing before work proceeds, or on the final invoice.
We’re also a local business in the way that matters: the permit inspector works for you, not for me. That’s why I like him. We schedule inspections at the LA Department of Building and Safety ourselves, and we don’t hide behind “permits are optional” language that some contractors use to shave a bid. Permits protect your property value and your insurance. We treat them as non-negotiable.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in North Hollywood
Full Kitchen Remodeling
A full kitchen remodel in North Hollywood means gutting down to studs, reworking layout, rerouting plumbing and electrical, and building back with materials you can look up. In mid-century homes across the 91601, 91605, and 91606 ZIP codes, that almost always includes replacing cloth-wrapped wiring, strapping a water heater, and bringing the rough-in to current code before drywall. We handle every scope in writing, from demolition to the final punch list. KraftMaid cabinets and Cambria quartz are standard offerings, and every allowance is on paper before we order a single cabinet door.
Cabinets & Countertops
Cabinet installation in North Hollywood runs $4,000 to $13,000 depending on layout and material. Countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500. We install KraftMaid cabinetry and Cambria quartz and granite most often, because both hold up to the Valley’s dry heat and the daily abuse of a working kitchen. If you’re in a North Hollywood apartment building with a soft-story retrofit notice, we’ll check the compliance database before you spend money on cabinets you can’t get permitted.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
Backsplash installation in North Hollywood runs $800 to $2,500. Tile selection matters more in this climate than people expect. San Fernando Valley heat pulls moisture out of thin-set fast, so a tile job started at 11 a.m. in August can fail at the grout line if the crew doesn’t manage curing conditions. We plan tile and flooring work around the heat, not against it. Rapid moisture loss is why we use climate controls on summer jobs and never rush a backsplash in one afternoon.
Kitchen Design & Layout
Most North Hollywood kitchens were framed in the 1950s and 1960s, which means closed-off footprints, narrow doorways, and structural walls exactly where you’d want an island. We do layout work in-house with Tom and his crew on site, not a design consultant you’ll never see again. Kitchen island installation runs $3,000 to $10,000. If you want to open a load-bearing wall between the kitchen and living room, that’s a beam, a permit, and an engineer’s letter. We handle all three, and the price comes in writing first.
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 North Hollywood
We stock and install cabinet and window lines that North Hollywood homeowners recognize, including KraftMaid and Simonton. We keep common hardware and hinges on the truck so a mid-project adjustment doesn’t stall your schedule for a week while parts ship from somewhere else. If a brand is on our quote, it’s a brand you can look up and verify before we order it. No mystery materials off a van.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in North Hollywood Homes
- Soft-story retrofit notices block permits. North Hollywood’s ordinance 183893 applies to many 1960s and 1970s apartment buildings with tuck-under parking. If your building has an unresolved compliance notice, LADBS can bar unrelated permitted work, including a kitchen remodel. We check compliance status before we write your quote so you don’t find out at the counter.
- Ungrounded cloth wiring and non-reinforced chimneys. Opening a 1960s kitchen wall in North Hollywood almost always exposes wiring that predates current code and sometimes a masonry chimney that was never seismically reinforced. Both must be brought to code before the remodel can continue, and both should be written into your allowance before we start swinging hammers.
- Extreme Valley heat ruins tile and drywall work. North Hollywood summer highs routinely pass 105°F, and rapid moisture loss in drywall mud and tile mortar leads to cracked grout and failed backsplash adhesion if crews push past mid-morning without climate controls. We plan heat-sensitive work early and protect materials from direct sun.
- Older panels and undersized framing. Postwar stucco homes across North Hollywood were built before modern electrical loads. Adding a double oven, disposal, and under-cabinet lighting often exceeds the panel’s capacity. We flag it during inspection, write the panel upgrade into the scope, and pull the revised permit before we touch the wall.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in North Hollywood, CA
Here’s what North Hollywood kitchen remodels actually cost, in writing, before we start:
| Service | Price Range |
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| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 - $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 - $20,000 |
| Cabinet Installation | $4,000 - $13,000 |
What moves the number is what’s in the walls. A 1958 stucco home in the 91601 ZIP with original wiring and termite-weakened subfloor costs more to remodel than a 1990s condo with clean framing. The permit inspection tells us which one you have. Our quotes include written allowances for exactly these conditions so you’re not blindsided mid-job. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate. We come out, open nothing, and give you a line-by-line number you can compare against anyone else.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Hollywood
Our crews work throughout the San Fernando Valley. If you’re in Studio City, Universal City, Burbank, or Valley Glen, you’re inside our normal service area. The same owner-operated team that handles Kitchen Remodeling across North Hollywood covers those neighborhoods too. If you’re looking for a local North Hollywood contractor who pulls permits and writes every change order, call us.
Serving North Hollywood, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the North Hollywood 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 North Hollywood
Yes, in many cases it does. If your building is on LADBS’s soft-story compliance database under Ordinance 183893 and the retrofit hasn’t been completed, the counter can hold unrelated permits, including kitchen remodel permits. We check the database before quoting so you know exactly where you stand. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll run the address.
The most common are ungrounded cloth wiring, an unstrapped water heater, and a non-reinforced masonry chimney. Depending on what the inspection finds, you may need a panel upgrade, seismic strapping, or chimney reinforcement before drywall can go back up. We write these into the contract as allowances so the price is agreed before the work happens. Call (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate and we’ll explain what applies to your specific house.
We build a written allowance for exactly these conditions into every contract. When we open a wall and find termite damage or failed waterproofing, we issue a written change order before we touch it. You approve the number in writing. The alternative is what national outfits do: surprise invoices at the end. We don’t work that way. Call (877) 610-1318 and ask us about our change order process.
We don’t recommend it, and we won’t do it. North Hollywood is under LA City jurisdiction, and unpermitted work on electrical, plumbing, or structural changes can come back on you when you sell, refinance, or file an insurance claim. If the scope is purely cosmetic, a permit may not be required. If it touches walls, wiring, or plumbing, it does. We’ll tell you which applies.
Yes. Summer highs in North Hollywood routinely pass 105°F, and heat accelerates moisture loss in drywall mud, tile mortar, and grout. That leads to cracked grout and failed backsplash adhesion if a crew works past mid-morning without climate controls. We schedule heat-sensitive work in the early morning, protect materials from direct sun, and plan around the Valley’s worst heat waves rather than pushing through them. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule a free estimate, and we’ll talk timing for your specific project.
What a North Hollywood Kitchen Remodel Actually Triggers
Here’s the piece no generic kitchen remodeling page mentions. North Hollywood sits at ground zero of Los Angeles’s soft-story retrofit ordinance. The neighborhood’s dense stock of 1960s and 70s garden apartments with tuck-under parking is exactly the building type that pancaked in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. If you own or rent in one of those buildings, a kitchen remodel can be halted at the LADBS counter because the building has an unresolved compliance notice. A routine cabinet swap can suddenly require seismic compliance before any permit issues. Contractors who don’t work North Hollywood every week get blindsided by this. We check the database before we quote, and we write the retrofit timeline into your project plan so the kitchen work doesn’t stall for months while you sort out the building’s structural compliance.
Mid-century single-family homes have their own version of this. On a 1958 stucco home in the 91601 ZIP near the NoHo Arts District, our crew opened the kitchen wall for a load-bearing pass-through and found cloth-wrapped wiring, an unstrapped water heater, and termite-weakened subfloor. We pulled a permit, wrote a change order for new Romex and a strapped 40-gallon tank, had the inspector sign off on the rough-in before drywall, and completed the $27,500 remodel without a single hidden surprise. That’s the rule, not the exception, in North Hollywood. The bones of these houses are sixty years old, and they will tell you what they need once the wall is open. We plan for it, write it down, and get your sign-off before we spend a dollar.
Call Barrett & Sons Construction for Your North Hollywood Kitchen Remodel
If you’re planning a kitchen remodel in North Hollywood, start with a free estimate. We’ll walk the job, check the soft-story database if you’re in an apartment building, and give you a written line-item quote. No trip charge inside the county, and a permanent 10% Senior and Veteran discount applies. We also offer $40 off any repair over $200 and a free second opinion on any written estimate you’ve already received. Call (877) 610-1318 and talk to a person who knows North Hollywood. Tom Barrett’s name is on the truck.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving the San Fernando Valley since 1998.