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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, depending on footprint, cabinet selection, and what we find behind the walls. That range covers everything from a modest galley refresh in a 1950s bungalow to a complete gut-and-rebuild in one of the area’s larger two-story homes. We schedule free estimates throughout North Hollywood every week, and the quote you get is the number you work from, nothing less, nothing more. Call (877) 610-1318 to get yours booked.
Here’s the honest part, and why this page exists: opening up an older North Hollywood kitchen rarely goes exactly to plan. You have postwar framing, decades-old electrical, and in some parts of the neighborhood, a seismic retrofit order that stopped a permit dead in its tracks. Barrett & Sons has been working these streets long enough to know what turns up, and we put every likely scope change in writing before you sign, so a surprise doesn’t become a second mortgage.
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 a marketing line. When we work in North Hollywood, the people swinging hammers and setting cabinets are people who carry the Barrett name, not a rotating cast of subs who’ve never met the homeowner. Our reputation is built one job at a time, and in a neighborhood like North Hollywood, word moves fast. A good review from a homeowner near Oxnard Street gets repeated at the hardware store on Burbank Boulevard.
We do not dispatch strangers. Every crew member who walks into a North Hollywood home is background-checked and uniformed, and Tom answers his own phone. If a customer in the NoHo Arts District calls at 7 p.m. because a cabinet arrived wrong, someone picks up. That’s been true since day one, and it’s why so many North Hollywood jobs come from neighbors referring neighbors.
We also know the LADBS system the way a regular contractor doesn’t. North Hollywood has some of the trickiest permit situations in the Valley, particularly the soft-story retrofit triggers tied to Ordinance 183893 in the 91601 to 91606 ZIP codes. A routine kitchen permit can get held up by a years-old seismic compliance notice, and we’ve helped enough local homeowners unravel that tangle to move fast when it happens. That local fluency is worth real money when your cabinets are sitting in the garage and the counter won’t issue.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in North Hollywood
Full Kitchen Remodeling
A full kitchen remodel in North Hollywood means taking the room down to framing and rebuilding it right, and that means confronting what’s inside those 1950s and 60s walls. We handle demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, drywall, cabinets, counters, flooring, and finish work as one continuous job. Every permit is pulled, every inspection is signed, and every change order is written before we touch anything new. This is our Kitchen Remodeling team’s bread-and-butter.
Kitchen Design & Layout
North Hollywood homes tend to have compact kitchens, especially the postwar stucco and wood-frame singles built between 1955 and 1965. You don’t always have room for a walk-in pantry and a double island. We design layouts that actually work in the footprint you have, which often means relocating the sink line, rerouting gas for the range, and trimming cabinet runs so the room breathes. Design and layout planning is folded into every full remodel, and we’ll walk the space with you before we ever order a cabinet.
Quartz & Granite Countertops
Quartz and granite countertop installation in North Hollywood generally runs $2,000 to $6,500 depending on slab footage and edge profile. We template on-site, build a plywood substrate so the stone has a stable base, and coordinate slab delivery with cabinet installation so there’s no gap between phases. In the San Fernando Valley’s heat, direct sun on a south-facing kitchen window can make cheap laminate warp within a few summers. Stone doesn’t move. Most North Hollywood homeowners choose quartz for durability and because it never needs sealing, but we install both and we’ll show you actual slabs, not a catalog photo.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
Tile work in North Hollywood has one enemy: the Heat. June through September, this part of the Valley pushes past 105°F regularly, and thinset that dries too fast will fail. We schedule tile and flooring work early in the day, control moisture levels, and adjust the mortar mix for the conditions instead of blaming the tile. Backsplash installation in North Hollywood typically runs $800 to $2,500, and we’ll help you pick a tile that holds up to the Valley’s dry heat and the hot splatter from a daily cooktop.
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 install premium brands, the ones you can look up and verify before you spend a dime, because that’s the standard Tom set back in 1998. In North Hollywood kitchens, that means we stock and install Simonton windows, Ply Gem trim and siding, and PGT impact-rated options when the project calls for them. If a cabinet door arrives wrong or a window sash shows up short, Barrett & Sons fixes it, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is written on every contract. No mystery brands off the back of a van.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in North Hollywood Homes
- Maxed-out 100-amp electrical panels: Most North Hollywood homes built in the 1950s and 60s were wired for a different era. By the time you add a wall oven, an induction cooktop, under-cabinet lighting, and a dishwasher with a heating element, the old panel can’t keep up. We check this before we order your appliances, not after the walls go back up.
- Unstrapped water heaters near load-bearing walls: The 1994 Northridge earthquake should have taught everyone to strap water heaters, but a surprising number of older North Hollywood homes still have loose tanks. If a remodel plan has us cutting near the utility closet, we flag the strapping requirement and write it in before demo day.
- Hidden beam pockets in postwar ceilings: North Hollywood’s 1950s and 60s framed kitchens often hide beam pockets and non-obvious load paths. You can’t know whether a wall carries weight until you open the ceiling. We open the framing before we commit to a layout, so the island you want isn’t floating under a beam that forces a redesign.
- Soft-story retrofit compliance holds at LADBS: If your building sits in the 91601 to 91606 ZIP codes and has tuck-under parking, the city’s soft-story retrofit database may flag your permit before anything else. More on this below, but you should know it exists before you schedule demo.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in North Hollywood, CA
Here’s where the money goes. A full kitchen remodel in North Hollywood runs $14,000 to $45,000. A quartz or granite countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500 on top of cabinets. And the design and layout work, the part where we measure, plan, and walk the space with you, is part of the project, not a line item you pay separately for.
| Service | North Hollywood Price Range |
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| Full Kitchen Remodeling | $14,000-$45,000 |
| Kitchen Design & Layout | Included with remodel |
| Quartz & Granite Countertops | $2,000-$6,500 |
What moves the number? Cabinet grade, slab selection, appliance circuits, whether we’re tearing down a load-bearing wall and adding a beam, and whether the LADBS counter throws a soft-story compliance flag at the start. That last one is real in this town. We’ll walk the entire scope with you, write the allowances on the contract, and hand you a written change order before anything changes.
You do not get a lower price if you pay cash. You do not get a line that says “other.” You get the number we agree to, in writing, with permits pulled and inspections signed. Call (877) 610-1318 to schedule your free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near North Hollywood
Barrett & Sons works throughout the San Fernando Valley and into the hills. If you’re searching for Kitchen Remodeling in North Hollywood, we cover the whole neighborhood, and we also serve Studio City, Universal City, Burbank, and Valley Glen. Same crew, same written change orders, same 90-Day Done Right Promise on the contract.
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
Because the City of Los Angeles’s mandatory soft-story retrofit ordinance, Ordinance 183893, applies to many older North Hollywood garden apartment complexes with tuck-under parking, especially in ZIP codes 91601 through 91606. LADBS cross-checks every permit against the retrofit compliance database, and if your building is listed and hasn’t resolved its Tier 1 retrofit, the counter will flag the kitchen remodel permit before anything else moves. We see this constantly in North Hollywood, and the fix usually means resolving the compliance notice before the kitchen permit can proceed. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll look up your property before you pay for demo.
We inspect first, write the upgrade into the contract, and never pretend the old gear is fine. Most North Hollywood homes built in that era have 100-amp panels that are already tasked before we add a new cooktop and lighting, and unstrapped water heaters are common in utility closets that sit right next to the kitchen. We bring both into the written scope before we open a wall, and you approve the price before we do the work.
We stop, document it, and bring you a written change order, because that’s exactly what we did on Cumpston Street near the NoHo Arts District not long ago. Our crew opened a 1963 stucco-and-wood-frame kitchen, found the original 100-amp panel maxed out and an unstrapped water heater sitting feet from the load-bearing wall we needed to cut, and we wrote the panel upgrade, the strapping, and a new 50-amp line for a Kohler induction cooktop into a change order before touching the subfloor. We waited for the LADBS inspection sign-off before drywall. That’s the rule, no exceptions.
Sometimes, and the reason is the permitting layer, not the labor. North Hollywood sits inside the City of Los Angeles, which means LADBS rules, soft-story retrofit cross-checks, and inspection timelines that Burbank and Glendale, as separate cities, don’t impose. The construction itself costs about the same. The delays and compliance hoops are what change the final number, and that’s why Barrett & Sons writes the scope with enough detail that you see the difference coming before it hits the invoice. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll put it in writing.
It pushes starts earlier and makes certain materials a real problem if the schedule ignores it. North Hollywood summer highs routinely pass 105°F, and thinset and stucco that dry too fast will crack. We schedule tile setting and any exterior-facing work for early morning, control indoor temperature and humidity during the cure window, and we tell you up front that a mid-July cabinet install may need to wait on an HVAC cool-down. It’s not a sales line. It’s physics, and it’s why we plan around it instead of losing a punch list to hairline cracks in August.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving North Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley since 1998.
Ready to talk about your North Hollywood kitchen? Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll schedule your free estimate, walk the space, and put the entire scope in writing before you sign anything.