Kitchen Remodeling in Reedley, CA

Kitchen remodeling in Reedley often begins by finding space the house already has. The older homes around Reedley's historic downtown were built with service areas that modern households do not use in the same way, and a butler's pantry, back service porch, or oversized adjoining closet is frequently the cheapest square footage available in the entire project.

Absorbing service space instead of building an addition

A butler's pantry or service porch adjoining the kitchen is dead weight in most modern households. It is usually poorly lit, awkwardly proportioned, and used for storing things nobody has looked at in years. Absorbing it into the kitchen converts genuinely underused floor area into a full pantry wall, a second work zone, or the space that finally makes an island viable. That is almost always a better return than any cabinetry upgrade of equivalent cost, and it is the first thing we look for when walking an older Reedley home.

What has to be established before that becomes a plan is what the dividing wall is doing, and what is running through it. In houses of this age the wall between a kitchen and a service area is sometimes structural and frequently carries plumbing or a vent stack, since service areas were where the utilities went. We identify that during design, and where the wall is load bearing we bring in the appropriate licensed professionals rather than assuming. Historic character is worth preserving too, so where original trim and casing are intact we match profiles into the new work.

How we run a Reedley kitchen remodel

We look first at whether adjoining service space can be absorbed, since that is usually the highest return move available in these houses, and establish what the dividing wall is doing before it becomes part of the plan. Trim and casing profiles are matched into new work so the result reads as belonging to the house. You approve a written scope and schedule before demolition, and permitting runs through the City of Reedley.