Kitchen Remodeling in Malibu - Written Fixed Price, Finish Date in the Contract

Fast, Reliable Kitchen Remodeling Across Malibu

A full kitchen remodel in Malibu runs $14,000-$45,000 for most homes, and small or partial kitchen updates start around $9,000. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and we’ve been remodeling kitchens along the PCH corridor and up into the Santa Monica Mountains for nearly three decades. If your kitchen is a mid-century beach cottage with salt-air-frozen cabinet hinges or a post-Woolsey rebuild that’s been waiting for finishes since the permits cleared, we know exactly what you’re up against. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll come out, walk the space with you, and put a written scope on the table.

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Malibu isn’t like Agoura or Thousand Oaks when it comes to construction. Between the Coastal Commission, fire-hardening codes, and lots that squeeze between PCH and the wave-wash zone, the whole process has layers most remodelers never see. We do, because we’re here every week. That’s the difference when you’re six months into a permit and the wrong contractor still hasn’t pulled a single approval.

Why Barrett & Sons Construction Is Malibu’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company

Tom Barrett founded this company in 1998, and his name is on the truck. That matters in a town where homeowners have been burned by out-of-area outfits that quote one number on the phone and hand over a different invoice at the door. Our Kitchen Remodeling team is led by Tom’s sons, and the crew members on your Malibu job are background-checked and uniformed every visit. You’ll see the same faces from demo day to final walkthrough.

Every kitchen remodel we do in Malibu is different because every lot here is different. A Point Dume ranch with ocean exposure needs stainless hardware and marine-grade finishes. A Carbon Beach cottage on a 35-foot-wide lot needs material staging planned around Caltrans lane closures. A hillside rebuild off Latigo Canyon needs ignition-resistant wall assemblies nobody in Calabasas even thinks about. We plan for all of it before we ever set foot on site.

The 90-Day Done Right Promise is written into every contract we sign in Malibu. If something’s not right, one call brings Tom back. We also pull permits and get inspections signed on every eligible job, because the last contractor a lot of our Malibu customers used told them permits were optional. They aren’t, especially in a coastal zone and a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone.

Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in Malibu

Full Kitchen Remodeling

We tear it down to the studs and rebuild it right. In Malibu that often means opening up walls on a mid-century cottage and finding corroded anchor bolts, termite-riddled sill plates, or framing that never met today’s seismic codes. Before we put in cabinets, we fix what’s behind them. A full kitchen remodel in Malibu typically lands between $14,000 and $45,000 depending on footprint and finish level.

Cabinets & Countertops

KraftMaid cabinets and Cambria or quartz countertops are the brands we install most in Malibu kitchens. Coastal homes need cabinet hardware and hinges that won’t seize up from marine air, and we spec accordingly. Cabinet installation alone runs $4,000-$13,000, and countertop installation runs $2,000-$6,500. We provide written allowances for every material so you know exactly what you’re paying before the first sheet is cut.

Backsplash, Tile & Flooring

Salt air and beach sand are rough on kitchen floors. We install tile and flooring that can handle wet feet, sandy treads, and the occasional window left open during Santa Ana season. Backsplash installation in Malibu runs $800-$2,500, and full tile jobs scale from there. We’ll bring samples to your home so you can see how a tile reads in Malibu’s bright ocean light, not under showroom fluorescence.

Kitchen Design & Layout

Malibu kitchens are rarely rectangular boxes. We’ve worked inside beach cottages where the kitchen shares one wall with the laundry and another with the only bathroom. We design layouts that use every inch of a narrow PCH lot home without fighting the plumbing you can’t move because the foundation won’t allow it. Small and partial kitchen remodels start around $9,000 and climb as we open walls or relocate appliances. Island installation runs $3,000-$10,000 depending on scale and finish.

We also handle Bathroom Remodeling in Malibu, which pairs well when you’re already pulling one permit and don’t want to live through construction twice. And if you’re rebuilding after storm or fire damage, our Roofing in Malibu crew coordinates with the kitchen team so one schedule stays intact.

Trusted Brands We Service in Malibu

We install materials you can look up. KraftMaid and Cambria in the kitchen, Quikrete and Techo-Bloc on outdoor work. When your Malibu kitchen remodel calls for a paver transition to a patio or a driveway apron, we use brands our crews have installed for years, not whatever was cheapest at the lumber yard that week. That’s part of why our work holds up on coastal lots where unknowns fail fast. We stock common parts and hardware in our Los Angeles-area staging yard, so a missing hinge or edge profile doesn’t stall your Malibu job for two weeks waiting on freight.

Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in Malibu Homes

• Salt-air corrosion on hardware and framing. Steel fasteners near open windows rust through in a few years. We spec stainless or hot-dipped galvanized connectors on every coastal kitchen we build, and we write it into the scope so there’s no surprise upcharge halfway through.
• Post-Woolsey rebuilds that stalled partway. We walk into kitchens where a previous contractor framed the wall and then vanished. The framing may need re-inspection before anything else moves, because the Coastal Commission and county both want the file closed in order.
• Un-permitted past work. A surprising number of Malibu kitchens have additions or enclosures that were built without permits decades ago. When we open a wall and find wiring or plumbing that was never inspected, we flag it and add it as a written change order. The inspector works for you, not for either of us, and that’s why we like him.
• Hillside foundations that shifted. On canyon lots above PCH, we regularly see slab cracks and out-of-level floors from decades of seismic settling. Cabinets can’t sit level on a floor that isn’t. We assess and correct the base before we hang a single upper cabinet.

Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in Malibu, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Malibu

Our crews work from Point Dume to Broad Beach and up the canyons, and we cross into Malibu‘s neighbors regularly: Agoura, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, and Thousand Oaks are all in our normal service radius. If you’ve been pricing kitchen remodels in those cities and getting vague answers, the same written-scope process we use in Malibu applies there too.

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