Kitchen Remodeling in Kirkwood, Missouri
Full-scope custom kitchens designed for Kirkwood's older homes — opening them up for modern life while honoring the character that drew you to the house.
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Many of Kirkwood's homes were built before the open-concept era, with kitchens that were tucked away, walled off, and sized for a different way of cooking and entertaining. A successful Kirkwood kitchen remodel solves that — opening the space up, reworking the flow, adding the storage and seating modern families need — while respecting the home's architecture rather than fighting it.
A full remodel is the right call when the existing layout works against you, when the cabinets themselves are failing, or when you want to connect the kitchen to an adjacent dining or family room. In older Kirkwood homes, that often means thoughtful structural work, careful trim matching, and cabinetry detailed to suit the home's era — Craftsman, traditional, or mid-century.
We design and build the cabinetry, islands, pantries, and finish carpentry in our own shop. For plumbing, electrical, flooring, and countertops, we coordinate with trade partners we've worked with for years, so the project stays on schedule and the quality stays consistent throughout.
Kitchen Remodeling Work in Kirkwood
A selection of kitchen remodelingprojects we've completed for homeowners in Kirkwood and the surrounding communities.
What a Full Kitchen Remodel Includes
Layout and Design
We design the kitchen around how you actually live — which in older Kirkwood homes often means removing a wall, reworking the flow, or repositioning the island to connect the kitchen to the rest of the home.
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 suited to your home's era. Drawer interiors, roll-outs, and appliance panels are all designed around what you actually store.
Islands, Pantries, and Workflow
A thoughtfully sized island for prep and seating, a pantry that handles a real grocery run, a beverage or coffee station that keeps guests clear of the cooking zone — all designed for the way your household uses the kitchen.
Architectural Integration
Kirkwood homes often have substantial original millwork. We match crown profiles, casing, and stain colors so the new kitchen belongs to the home's detailing rather than contrasting with it.
Appliance Integration
Panel-ready refrigerators, custom hood surrounds, built-in ovens and microwaves — detailed to look intentional, with modern appliances kept quiet inside period-appropriate cabinetry.
Shop Finish and Trade Coordination
All cabinetry is finished in our shop and installed by our own crew. We coordinate the electricians, plumbers, and countertop fabricators so you're not chasing separate contractors.
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 Kirkwood Families Choose Us for Kitchen Remodels
Designed for Kirkwood Architecture
We don't import a generic design into a historic home. The kitchens we build for Kirkwood honor the era of each house — Craftsman, traditional, mid-century — rather than imposing one template.
Comfortable Opening Up Older Homes
Connecting a closed-off older kitchen to the rest of the house takes care with structure and detailing. We've done it many times in homes like Kirkwood's, and we plan the structural realities up front.
Built by Hand, Locally
Every cabinet, island, and built-in is designed and built in our St. Louis shop. No catalog cabinets, no imported components — fit and finish that older homes deserve.
One Point of Contact
You work with the same person from first visit to final walkthrough. Questions get answered quickly and nothing falls through the cracks between trades.
Designs That Hold Up
We've built kitchens since 1985 and watched how four decades of designs have aged. We favor choices that stay current and construction that lasts.
Our Kitchen Remodel Process in Kirkwood
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Consultation and Home Visit
We visit your Kirkwood home, measure the existing kitchen, and spend time understanding how you cook and entertain. In older homes, this includes assessing structural realities — load-bearing walls, plumbing routes, electrical capacity — that shape what the remodel can 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, and walk through it all with you. Nothing moves forward until you're confident.
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Cabinet Build in Our Shop (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 clients, that's a highlight of the project.
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Installation and Finish (2–3 Weeks)
Installation typically takes 2–3 weeks on-site and includes coordinating the countertop template, appliance delivery, plumbing, and electrical. We're there until the last piece of crown molding is in and you've signed off.
A Word from Our Clients
Dave was very courteous and did an amazing job on my kitchen. The transformation of the cabinets was night and day, and he was very patient with all of our decisions. He made a dull kitchen into our dream kitchen. His team worked hard, took care with their craft, and cleaned up every time. This is craftsmanship at its best.
What Makes a Kirkwood Kitchen Remodel Different
Kirkwood homes ask their kitchens to do something tricky: feel modern and open while still belonging to a house built decades ago. We design for that balance — opening sightlines and improving flow without stripping away the trim, proportions, and detailing that give these homes their character. The cabinetry vocabulary follows the house, whether that's a Craftsman bungalow or a 1960s ranch.
We also design for the long view. Kirkwood is a community where people stay in their homes, so our recommendations favor timeless choices — neutral painted cabinetry with wood accents, clean hardware, period-appropriate detailing, and solid wood construction — that will look current in fifteen years and hold up to daily use the whole time.
Not sure which is right for you?
See our Kirkwood 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
Yes — it's one of the most common requests we get in Kirkwood. Connecting an older, walled-off kitchen to an adjacent dining or family room takes care with load-bearing walls, plumbing, and electrical, all of which we assess during design. We then design cabinetry and trim so the opened-up space still feels like part of the original home.
Most projects run 10–14 weeks from design approval to final walkthrough: 2–3 weeks for design finalization, 6–8 weeks for the cabinet build, and 2–3 weeks for installation and trade coordination. Older homes occasionally take a little longer if unexpected structural or mechanical issues surface during demo.
Yes — matching crown profiles, casing, trim, and stains is a core part of how we work in Kirkwood. Bring photos or samples of the woodwork in adjacent rooms and we'll design the kitchen to feel original to the house.
We manage the cabinetry build and installation, and coordinate trade partners for demo, plumbing, electrical, flooring, and countertops. You get one point of contact for the cabinetry and a coordinated handoff between trades.
Most clients do. We set up a temporary kitchen workspace, and the on-site work is concentrated into a 2–3 week window. Expect more grilling and takeout than usual during that stretch, but the home stays livable throughout.
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We proudly serve homeowners throughout St. Louis County with over 35 years of custom cabinetry expertise.