Kitchen Remodeling in Clayton, Missouri
Custom kitchens designed for Clayton's homes — from 1920s Tudors and Colonials to mid-century ranches and contemporary builds. Handcrafted by a local shop that's been here since 1985.
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Clayton kitchens come with constraints — and opportunities — that other parts of the St. Louis metro don't share. Many of these homes were built before the open-concept era; kitchens are often smaller, more enclosed, and connected to the rest of the home through formal architectural transitions. A successful Clayton kitchen remodel honors that character rather than fighting it, while solving the storage, workflow, and entertaining problems modern families actually have.
We design full-scope kitchens for Clayton homes spanning every era. For Tudor and Colonial homes, we lean into traditional detailing — raised panel cabinets, period-appropriate hardware, generous trim work. For mid-century ranches, we work with the home's existing horizontal lines and lean into walnut, cherry, or painted slab styles. For more recent transitional builds and condos, we design clean shaker kitchens that work for both daily life and entertaining.
A full remodel is the right call when your existing layout fights you, when the cabinet boxes themselves are failing, or when you want to open the kitchen into adjacent rooms — something that's especially common in Clayton's older homes where the original kitchen was sized for a different era of cooking and entertaining. If you're not sure whether your kitchen needs a full remodel or whether refacing would do, we'll walk through both options during the consultation and give you an honest read.
Kitchen Remodeling Work in the St. Louis Area
A selection of kitchen remodelingprojects we've completed for homeowners in Clayton and the surrounding communities.
What a Full Clayton Kitchen Remodel Includes
Layout and Design
We design the kitchen for how you actually use it — which often means reconfiguring the layout, removing a wall to connect to an adjacent room, repositioning the island, or rebuilding the pantry. In older Clayton homes, this is frequently the most impactful part of the project.
Custom Cabinetry, Built to Match Your Home
Every cabinet is built to your exact dimensions in our shop, in a door style and wood species that fits your home's character. Drawer interiors, roll-outs, appliance panels, and storage configurations are all designed around what you actually need.
Islands, Pantries, and Workflow Design
Even when Clayton kitchens are smaller, the elements still matter — a thoughtfully sized island for seating and prep, a pantry that handles a serious grocery run, a coffee or beverage station that keeps guests out of the cooking flow.
Architectural Integration
Clayton homes typically have substantial existing millwork — wide casing, picture rails, period trim. The kitchen's cabinetry needs to belong to that detailing, not contrast with it. We match crown profiles, base trim, and stain colors so the new kitchen reads as part of the home.
Appliance Integration
Panel-ready refrigerators, custom hood surrounds, built-in microwaves and ovens — all detailed to look intentional rather than bolted on after the fact. For period-appropriate kitchens, we work hard to make modern appliances feel quiet within traditional cabinetry.
Trade Coordination
We manage the cabinetry scope and coordinate the electricians, plumbers, countertop fabricators, and any structural trades. In Clayton's tighter urban footprint — especially condos — that coordination is critical to keeping the project on schedule.
Made with Intention, Not a Catalog
Every piece of your kitchen remodelingis chosen together — wood, door profile, stain or paint, and hardware. Here's some of what we work with most often.
Wood Species
- Oak
- Maple
- Cherry
- Walnut
- Hickory
Door Styles
- Shaker
- Raised Panel
- Recessed Panel
- Slab
- Custom Profiles
Hardware & Finish
- Hand-Applied Stains
- Custom Paint Match
- Brushed Nickel
- Matte Black
- Aged or Polished Brass
Have something specific in mind? Bring a photo, a sample, or even a Pinterest board to your consultation — we'll work from it.
Why Clayton Families Choose Us for Kitchen Remodels
Designed for Clayton Architecture
We don't import generic kitchen designs into Clayton homes. The kitchens we build for Clayton homeowners honor the era and architecture of each house — Tudor, Colonial, mid-century, contemporary — rather than imposing a single template.
Built by Hand, Locally
Every cabinet, island, pantry, and built-in is designed and built in our St. Louis workshop. No catalog cabinets, no imported components. The fit, finish, and detailing match the level of work Clayton homes deserve.
One Point of Contact
You work with the same person from the first consultation through the final walkthrough. Every question, change, and update flows through one relationship — not a rotating cast of project managers.
Trade Coordination in Tight Spaces
Clayton homes — especially condos and older houses on smaller lots — often present logistical challenges around demo, deliveries, and trade staging. We've handled enough Clayton projects to know how to manage the building, the trades, and the neighbors.
Designs That Hold Up
We've built kitchens since 1985 and watched how four decades of designs have aged. Our recommendations favor choices that stay current: neutral painted cabinetry with wood accents, clean hardware lines, period-appropriate detailing in older homes, and solid wood construction throughout.
Our Kitchen Remodel Process in Clayton
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Consultation and Home Visit
We visit your Clayton home, measure the existing kitchen, and spend time understanding how your family uses the space. For older homes especially, this includes assessing structural realities — load-bearing walls, plumbing routes, electrical capacity — that will shape what the remodel can and can't change.
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Design and Selections
We develop detailed layout plans (often including structural changes), specify every door style, wood species, finish, hardware choice, and cabinet configuration. We walk through it all with you, and nothing moves forward until you're confident in the plan.
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Shop Build (6–8 Weeks)
Your cabinetry is built by hand in our St. Louis shop. You're welcome to visit and watch the work in progress — for many Clayton clients, that's one of the most satisfying parts of the project.
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Installation and Trade Coordination (2–3 Weeks)
Installation typically runs 2–3 weeks on-site and includes coordinating with countertop fabricators, appliance delivery, plumbing, electrical, and any structural trades. In Clayton condos and tight urban lots, we manage the building-side logistics — elevator scheduling, debris hauling, neighbor courtesy — that those projects require.
A Word from Our Clients
Led by Dave Portell, ProWood Interiors is absolutely the best, most professional, and expert group of wood craftspersons around. Our experience with them was outstanding, from start to finish. Dave and his group are wood artists, and they were exacting in their manufacture and installation.
What Makes a Clayton Kitchen Remodel Different
Clayton's housing market is one of the strongest in the St. Louis region, and kitchen remodels here disproportionately influence both how the home shows and how it appraises. We design with both in mind: timeless choices that will look current in fifteen years, materials that hold up to daily use, and finish work that an inspector or buyer's agent will notice on a walkthrough.
The other reality of Clayton remodels is that the homes themselves often dictate the design vocabulary. A 1925 Tudor in Wydown demands different cabinetry than a 1960s ranch off Topton Way, which is different again from a contemporary condo near downtown Clayton. We don't push a house style toward our preferences — we design the kitchen the house wants, then make it work brilliantly for how your family lives.
Not sure which is right for you?
See our Clayton Cabinet Refacing pageOur Commitment
Our name is on every piece we build.
Every project runs through our own shop, our own finishers, and our own install crew — no subcontractors, no handoffs, no catalog cabinets arriving in a box. The cabinetry you approve on paper is the cabinetry that arrives at your door. And we've been easy to find since 1985 — still are.
Frequently Asked Questions
Full-scope kitchen remodels for Clayton homes vary widely based on cabinet count, wood species, door style, and the scope of any structural or layout changes. Countertops, appliances, and other trades are priced separately. We provide a detailed written quote after the in-home consultation — a real number, not a ballpark that grows. If a full remodel is more than your kitchen actually needs, we'll be honest about that and steer you toward refacing if it fits better.
Most projects run 10–14 weeks from design approval to final walkthrough: 2–3 weeks for design finalization, 6–8 weeks for cabinet build in our shop, and 2–3 weeks for on-site installation and trade coordination. Older Clayton homes occasionally take slightly longer when unexpected structural or mechanical issues surface during demo.
Yes — we have experience working in older Clayton homes where preserving architectural character is part of the brief. We can replicate period detailing, match existing millwork, and design kitchens that respect the home's era while incorporating modern functionality. If your home is in a designated historic district, we'll coordinate any required reviews during the design phase.
We do. Condo remodels in Clayton come with their own coordination requirements — HOA approvals, elevator scheduling, debris management, neighbor courtesy — and we've handled enough of them to know what each building expects. Bring your HOA's remodel guidelines to the consultation and we'll walk through what they'll require from the project.
It depends on scope. Like-for-like cabinet replacement usually doesn't require a permit. Moving walls, changing plumbing routes, altering electrical loads, or making structural changes does. Clayton's permitting process is straightforward; we identify the requirements during design and either pull permits ourselves or coordinate with the trades responsible.
Most clients do. We set up a temporary kitchen workspace (often in a dining room, basement, or finished room), and the on-site work is concentrated into a 2–3 week window. Expect to use grills, microwaves, and restaurants more than usual during that stretch — Clayton makes that easy — but the home stays livable throughout.
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