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AfterFast, Reliable Kitchen Remodeling Across San Antonio
A full kitchen remodel in San Antonio typically runs $14,000-$45,000, and most of the work we take on in neighborhoods like King William and Terrell Hills lands between $18,000 and $30,000 once cabinets, countertops, and flooring are all in scope. If you’re standing in a kitchen with caliche block behind the drywall or a floor that’s moved enough to crack your tile, you already know what makes remodeling in this city different from remodeling in, say, Austin or Boerne. Our crew works San Antonio every week, we answer the phone at (877) 610-1318, and estimates are free.
Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is San Antonio’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
We’ve spent years working inside San Antonio’s older housing corridors, and that hands-on time matters when a wall opens up and reveals caliche block instead of modern stud framing. Tom Barrett’s name is on the truck and on the contract, which means the crew you meet at the estimate is the crew that shows up to do the work. Homeowners in 78209 and 78218 aren’t hiring a franchise dispatcher. They’re hiring Tom, his sons, and the people who’ve been building with them for years.
San Antonio customers regularly tell us the same story: they had another contractor quote a number over the phone, then hand them a very different invoice at the end. That doesn’t happen here. Every price change at Barrett & Sons arrives as a written change order before work proceeds. Permits get pulled, inspections get signed, and the permit inspector works for you, not for us. That’s precisely why we like him.
Our crews are background-checked and uniformed on every visit. We publish our standing offers plainly: no trip charge inside the county, a free second opinion on any written estimate, $40 off any repair over $200, and a permanent 10% discount for seniors and veterans. Call (877) 610-1318 and a live person answers, 24 hours a day.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in San Antonio
Full Kitchen Remodeling
A complete kitchen remodel in San Antonio means taking the room down to the studs, and in pre-1950 homes in 78204 and 78207, those studs often aren’t studs at all. Load-bearing caliche block is dense, irregular, and easy to mistake for adobe if you don’t know what you’re looking at. We plan for that before the first wall comes down, because cutting through it without proper shoring has collapsed more than a few kitchen remodels in Lavaca and King William.
Cabinets & Countertops
KraftMaid cabinets and Cambria quartz countertops are the two brands we install most often in San Antonio kitchens, and for good reason. They hold up to the humidity swings that come with living at the boundary between the Edwards Plateau and the Gulf Coast. A typical cabinet installation runs $4,000-$13,000; countertops run $2,000-$6,500 depending on square footage and whether you choose quartz or granite.
Backsplash, Tile & Flooring
San Antonio’s expansive black clay soils swell and shrink with every drought and downpour cycle, which means kitchen floors move. If you have tile that’s cracked in a diagonal line across the room, that’s usually not a bad install. That’s foundation movement telegraphing through your finish floor. We address the subfloor before we lay tile, or the new tile will crack the same way the old tile did. Backsplash work in San Antonio typically runs $800-$2,500.
Kitchen Design & Layout
Older San Antonio homes, especially craftsman bungalows in Woodlawn and working-class homes on the East Side, often have kitchens that were never meant for modern appliances. We’ve opened up rooms in 78202 and 78203 that had three generations of informal additions layered on top of the original footprint, and none of it permitted. We design around the plumbing and structure that actually exists, not the layout that looked good on a showroom brochure.
What happens when you call
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in San Antonio
You’ll see KraftMaid and Cambria in our kitchen jobs most often, because those are brands you can look up and verify before you sign anything. The same applies across all of our trades: GAF and CertainTeed on roofs, Andersen and Marvin on San Antonio Windows & Doors, Belgard and Techo-Bloc on hardscapes. If you’re about to spend five figures on a kitchen, you deserve to know exactly what’s going into your home. So ask us for the spec sheet. We’ll hand it over.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in San Antonio Homes
- Caliche block behind the drywall. In pre-WWII homes across 78204 and 78207, interior walls were often built from locally quarried compressed limestone aggregate instead of wood framing. It doesn’t cut like modern CMU, and local inspectors trained mainly on wood-frame construction frequently miss it on first assessment.
- Floors that move with the weather. San Antonio sits on expansive Vertisol clay that heaves during wet years and shrinks during droughts. That movement shows up in cracked tile, gaps at the toe kick, and cabinet doors that suddenly won’t align. Any remodel here has to account for it before finish work begins.
- Decades of unpermitted additions. Many homes in the 78201-78210 corridor have informal add-ons that were never permitted. The plumbing and electrical in those spaces rarely meet today’s code, and discovering them mid-remodel is exactly the moment when a contractor without written change orders starts handing you surprise invoices.
- Historic review requirements. If your home is in King William, Lavaca, or Dignowity Hill, exterior alterations fall under the Historic and Design Review Commission. Interior kitchen work is usually exempt, but anything that touches windows, exterior walls, or the facade requires HDRC approval, which suburban Bexar County contractors simply never deal with.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in San Antonio, TX
A full kitchen remodel in San Antonio runs $14,000-$45,000, with most of the work we do falling in the $18,000-$30,000 range. Smaller kitchens, the kind you find in Woodlawn bungalows and East Side cottages, often land between $9,000 and $20,000. Here’s how the line items break down in San Antonio’s market:
- Full kitchen remodel: $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 the number up in San Antonio specifically is whatever’s behind your walls when we open them. Caliche block abatement, foundation-leveling under the kitchen, and re-routing plumbing through a pier-and-beam crawlspace all add cost, and all of it goes in writing before we spend a dollar. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact quote. Estimates are free, and our Kitchen Remodeling team handles this work every week across the city.
We Also Serve Cities Near San Antonio
We work all over San Antonio and the surrounding communities, including Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Kirby, and Windcrest. If you’re in one of those spots and you’ve been putting off the kitchen because the last contractor never showed up, give us a call. And while we’re in your home, plenty of San Antonio homeowners ask us to take a look at the other trades too, so we also handle Bathroom Remodeling in San Antonio and Roofing in San Antonio when the leak over the range hood turns out to be the real reason the drywall was stained.
Serving San Antonio, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the San Antonio 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 San Antonio
We can usually start a San Antonio kitchen remodel within two to four weeks of a signed contract, depending on permitting and material lead times. Custom cabinets from KraftMaid typically take three to six weeks to arrive, and HDRC approval in historic districts like King William can add additional time of its own. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll give you a realistic start date for your specific neighborhood and scope.
We cover all of San Antonio, including Fence Installation in San Antonio areas like 78216, 78217, 78218, and 78219, plus the historic core ZIPs like 78204 and 78209. If you’re in King William, Lavaca, Woodlawn, Prospect Hill, or anywhere along the 78201-78210 corridor, we’ve worked in your area and we know what’s behind the walls. If you’re not sure whether we come to your street, call us and ask.
San Antonio kitchen remodels run $14,000-$45,000, which is typically lower than Austin prices but higher than what you’d pay in more rural parts of Bexar County. The difference comes from site conditions more than anything else: shallow caliche hardpan makes some excavation work in San Antonio slower, and older homes with caliche block walls add demolition complexity. Get an exact number by calling (877) 610-1318 for a free estimate.
Yes. Permits get pulled and inspections get signed on every eligible job. If a contractor tells you permits are optional in San Antonio, walk away. The inspector works for you, not for us, and that’s exactly why we like having him on the job. If you’re in a Historic and Design Review Commission district, we’ll handle that approval process too. It’s part of doing the job correctly.
Every Barrett & Sons job is backed by our 90-Day Done Right Promise, written on the contract. If something isn’t right, Tom comes back and makes it right with one phone call. No fine print, no arguing. For exact coverage on your specific project, call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll walk you through the paperwork before you sign.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving San Antonio and surrounding communities since 1998.