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Trusted Kitchen Remodeling for Houston Homeowners
A full kitchen remodel in Houston typically runs $14,000 to $45,000, depending on cabinet grade, countertop material, and how far walls or plumbing move. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston has been part of the Garrison Partners family since 2004, and every project starts with a written price before any work begins, not an estimate that creeps upward at the door. If you’ve been burned by a no-show crew or an invoice that didn’t match the handshake, that’s the exact problem we built our process around. Call (940) 289-7658 and you’ll reach a live person, 24/7, not a voicemail queue.
Kitchen Remodeling Contractor
A Kitchen Remodeling Contractor is the licensed general contractor who pulls permits, coordinates plumbing and electrical rough-in, orders cabinetry on schedule, and is legally responsible for the finished job. In Houston, you need one when the remodel involves moving a sink, adding a gas line, or opening any wall that contains mechanicals. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston functions as your single point of accountability: we hold the permits, schedule the inspections, and sign the written scope before the first tool comes out. A typical Full Kitchen Remodeling project with us falls in the $14,000 to $45,000 range, which includes demolition, rough-in, drywall, cabinets, counters, and finish work.
Permit and Inspection Discipline
Houston’s permitting requirements vary by project scope, and we do not skip them. Electrical, plumbing, and structural changes get permitted and inspected, and you’ll have the inspection sign-offs in your hand at close. That is what “by the book” means here, and it’s the same discipline Curtis Lane has held crews to since day one.
Written Scope, Fixed Price
Before our crew touches your kitchen, you’ll have a line-by-line scope of work and a fixed price in writing. The Garrison Standard is the framework behind this: every price, every brand, and every finish is documented, so there are no surprise change orders unless you request a change. If it’s not on the written scope, it’s not a line item we can bill later.
Styles & brands we work with
Kitchen Design
Kitchen Design is the planning phase that turns a wish list into a measured, cabinet-by-cabinet plan: sink location, appliance clearances, drawer stacks, lighting, vent hood routing, and the exact substrate and finish spec for every surface. In Houston, you need formal design work when you’re changing the kitchen’s footprint, moving plumbing, or spending above $20,000 and want to avoid costly field changes. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston handles design as part of the remodel, not as a separate upsell, and it’s covered under your written price in the $14,000 to $45,000 range. You’ll see the layout in measurable drawings before demolition starts.
Documented Brand Specifications
We design around name-brand materials with published specifications, so you know exactly what you’re getting. That includes KraftMaid cabinetry, Cambria and Caesarstone surfaces, and Kohler fixtures, among a documented roster. When the spec says a specific cabinet line and door profile, that’s what gets ordered, not a “comparable” substitute.
Houston Climate and Material Choices
Houston’s humidity is a real design factor. Solid wood doors in an unvented kitchen can move, and certain backsplash substrates hold up better against moisture than others. We spec materials that perform in Gulf Coast conditions, including cabinet coatings rated for humid air and Backsplash, Tile & Flooring combinations that hold up against moisture.
Kitchen Renovation
Kitchen Renovation covers the structural and mechanical overhaul of an existing kitchen: moving walls, replacing deteriorated subfloor, upgrading electrical from outdated panels, relocating plumbing, and bringing everything to current Houston code. In Houston, you need a renovation rather than a simple refresh when your kitchen has water damage behind the sink base, aluminum wiring, or a floor that’s out of level. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston handles full renovations at a written price in the $14,000 to $45,000 range, with the permit path already figured into the schedule. That price includes the things you can’t see: substrate repair, code upgrades, and inspection sign-offs.
Substrate and Structure Before Finish
Before any cabinet is set or any countertop is templated, our crews verify that the substrate, the layer beneath your finish surfaces, is sound. In many Houston homes built in the 1970s and 1980s, that means replacing water-damaged particleboard under old countertops and sistering floor joists where the subfloor has sagged. Skipping this step is how remodels look good for two years and fail in five; we don’t skip it.
Code Upgrades Without Surprise Invoices
When we open a wall and find outdated electrical or a vent stack that doesn’t meet current code, that discovery is handled under a documented process, not a surprise invoice at the end of the job. The Garrison Standard requires that any code-required correction be flagged immediately, priced in writing, and approved by you before we proceed. You’ll never open an envelope after the fact and find a line item you never heard about.
Cabinet Installation
Cabinet Installation & Refacing covers the precise leveling, shimming, and fastening of kitchen cabinets, including upper boxes, pantry units, and island base cabinets, plus the installation of doors, drawers, and hardware. In Houston, you need a pro installer when the wall is out of plumb, the floor dips, or the cabinet run is longer than eight feet and has to be built in sections. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston installs cabinets as a stand-alone scope from $4,000 to $13,000, or as part of a full remodel, and every cabinet is set to a tolerance of 1/16 inch over an eight-foot run. That’s the difference between doors that close true and doors that bind by spring.
Shimming and Leveling Practice
Houston slab foundations settle, and that means very few kitchen floors are perfectly level. Our installers shim every base cabinet to the high point of the floor, not just the first cabinet in the run. We use composite shims, not pine, because pine compresses under a granite or Cambria countertop load and causes the counter to crack later.
KraftMaid and Custom Lines
We install factory cabinetry from KraftMaid, among other documented lines, and the box arrives with the hardware, door profiles, and finish already specified. For KraftMaid installations, we follow the manufacturer’s published installation tolerances, which keeps the warranty intact. If a door or drawer face arrives with a finish defect, it’s caught during our install inspection, not after your countertop is already set on top.
Countertop Installation
Countertop Installation covers the template, fabrication, delivery, and setting of kitchen counters, including sink cutouts, seam joining, and backsplash integration at the wall line. In Houston, you need a professional installation when the material is natural stone, engineered quartz, or any surface with seams that have to be color-matched and bonded. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston installs countertops from $2,000 to $6,500, with the template taken only after your base cabinets are set and level. Nobody cuts a $4,000 slab off a bad measurement, and neither do we.
Seam Placement and Substrate Prep
Seam placement is decided before the template, not improvised on install day. On a U-shaped Houston kitchen, we position seams at the sink and cooktop cutouts, which are the narrowest points of the slab, not down the middle of a wide island where they’re under daily load. The substrate under the counter is checked for voids and flatness before the slab is set, so the stone is never bridging a gap.
Cambria and Caesarstone Surfaces
We work regularly with Cambria and Caesarstone quartz, and we know their seam requirements: tighter tolerances than natural stone, specific adhesives, and a cure time that can’t be hurried. A rushed quartz seam opens up inside a year, which is exactly the kind of failure our 365-Day Done Right Promise is written to cover. If the seam fails, we return and correct it at no charge.
Kitchen Remodeling Company
A Kitchen Remodeling Company is the full-service contractor that carries the job from demolition through permit sign-off, installing every trade rather than handing you a list of subs to manage yourself. In Houston, you need that kind of single-source accountability when your remodel involves four or more trades, because the moment plumbing and electrical and drywall and tile are handled by separate companies, the schedule and the pricing become someone else’s problem. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston operates as that single accountable company, with a written price from $14,000 to $45,000 and one point of contact from first meeting to final walkthrough. The buck for every trade stops in one place, and you’ll have that in writing.
The Garrison Standard, Explained
The Garrison Standard is the operating framework every Garrison Partners member has been held to since 2004. It’s not a marketing slogan; it’s a written protocol: every project gets a written price, every guarantee is signed at close, and every technician arrives background-checked and in uniform. Curtis Lane runs Bradford Remodeling Co Houston under that same standard, and it’s the reason we can put a one-year warranty in writing without hedging.
Trade Language, Plainly Spoken
We use the real words on the job because the real words protect you. When the scope says “rough-in,” we’ll tell you that’s the hidden plumbing and electrical work behind the walls, before drywall closes it in. When the scope says “soffit,” we’ll explain that’s the boxed-in area above your cabinets, and we’ll show you why keeping it or removing it changes the cabinet height. No one should have to sign a contract they can’t read.
Small Kitchen Remodel
A Small Kitchen Remodel is a defined-scope upgrade for a compact kitchen, typically under 150 square feet, focused on cabinet replacement, countertops, backsplash, sink, and lighting rather than moving walls or plumbing. In Houston’s older neighborhoods, including parts of West University Place and Cloverleaf, small kitchens are common, and the remodel is about maximizing every inch without changing the footprint. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston handles small kitchen remodels at a written price from $9,000 to $20,000, which is a narrower range than a Cabinets & Countertops focused full remodel because the scope is tighter and the trades are fewer. You’ll still get the same written guarantee at close.
Where the Budget Goes in a Small Footprint
In a 120-square-foot Houston kitchen, cabinet quality and countertop material eat most of the budget, while lighting and hardware are the places to save. We’ll price a drawer-stack base cabinet versus a door cabinet so you can see the actual dollar difference, not a vague upsell. A small kitchen remodels lives and dies by the storage plan, and that plan goes in writing before the price is signed.
Faster Schedule, Same Discipline
A small kitchen remodel typically runs a shorter schedule than a full renovation, because the permit path is simpler and the trade count is lower. That doesn’t mean a lighter process: you’ll still get the background-checked crew in uniform, the written scope, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise at the end. The discipline doesn’t scale down just because the square footage does.
Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Contractors
Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Contractors replace the doors, drawer fronts, and visible face panels of existing cabinets while keeping the cabinet boxes, which is a lower-cost alternative to full cabinet replacement. In Houston, you need this service when the cabinet boxes are sound and structurally square, but the doors are worn, outdated, or the finish has failed in the humid air. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston handles cabinet refacing at a price that typically falls below full cabinet replacement, in a range aligned with our cabinet work from $4,000 to $13,000. It’s the right call when the boxes are worth saving and the budget is better spent on countertops.
Box Inspection Before Refacing
Not every cabinet box deserves new doors. We inspect every box for plumb, square, and moisture damage before we quote refacing, because a Houston sink base with past water exposure won’t hold a new door correctly. If the box is failing, we’ll tell you that refacing is a short-term fix, and the choice is yours, in writing.
Doors, Drawers, and Finish Specs
Refacing means ordering new doors and drawer fronts from a documented manufacturer, not repainting old ones on site. We spec the same KraftMaid door profile you’d buy on a new cabinet, so the finish, the hinge bore, and the reveal are consistent. What you’re left with is a cabinet face that reads as new, at a refacing price, with the same one-year written guarantee on the work.
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We install KraftMaid cabinetry as a standard documented line, and we follow the manufacturer’s published tolerances from box assembly through door alignment. That matters because KraftMaid’s warranty is tied to correct installation, and we’d rather your warranty stay intact than get voided by a sloppy shim job. We’ve had years of hands-on run with KraftMaid’s hinge and drawer systems, and our crews know the hardware before it arrives on site.
For exterior-level jobs that touch the kitchen, including door replacement on an attached mudroom or entry, we work with James Hardie fiber cement products. That includes proper flashing details and expansion gaps sized to James Hardie’s installation literature, the kind of detail that separates a sealed opening from a water intrusion. Whether you have KraftMaid, James Hardie, or another documented make, we can help; the brand list doesn’t limit the work we’ll stand behind.
Signs You Need a Pro Right Now
- Water staining below the sink base. This usually means the P-trap or supply line has been weeping for months, and the cabinet floor and the subfloor underneath have likely absorbed it. If the cabinet bottom feels soft under pressure, that’s a substrate failure, not just a mess to wipe up.
- Countertop seams have opened or shifted. A seam that’s visibly separating means the substrate underneath is moving, or the original install didn’t include a proper support rail. A failed seam lets water into the cabinet line, and by the time you see the crack, the damage underneath is already underway.
- Doors and drawers no longer close square. When doors start binding at the corners, the cabinet boxes or the floor beneath them have settled out of level. In Houston, slab movement is common, and shimming solves it now; waiting turns it into a cracked countertop later.
- You smell a musty, closed-up odor near the sink base or dishwasher. That odor is almost always a slow leak that’s been running behind the toe kick. By the time it’s a smell, the wooden substrate behind the cabinet has been wet for a while, and the fix is a remodel issue, not a deodorizer.
- Outlets behind the counter are dead or sparking. Dead countertop outlets in an older Houston kitchen often trace to aluminum wiring or an overloaded circuit from dated panels. This is an electrical safety issue, and the fix belongs in the hands of a licensed pro, not a weekend reset at the breaker.
Our Process, Step by Step
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Written estimate and scope review. We walk the kitchen, take measurements, and document the condition of the substrate, the existing electrical, and the plumbing rough-in. You’ll receive a written price and a line-by-line scope before you sign anything, and the number on that paper is the number the project runs on.
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Material and brand specification. Every cabinet line, countertop surface, and fixture brand is written into the scope, down to the door profile and the finish. We order from documented manufacturers only, so there’s no guessing and no “comparable” substitution later.
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Permit pull and demolition. If the job requires a Houston permit, we pull it under our responsibility and schedule the inspection path. Demolition happens after the permit is active, and our crew protects the rest of your home with dust control and floor coverings as standard practice.
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Rough-in, substrate correction, and install. Plumbing and electrical rough-in go in first, inspected, and then the substrate is corrected before any cabinet is set. That’s the sequence that prevents the classic Houston failure: a beautiful countertop sitting on a rotted base.
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Finish work, inspection sign-off, and written guarantee. Countertops, backsplash, plumbing trim, and electrical trim go in, and the final inspection is scheduled. At close, you’ll have a clean site, a documented scope marked complete, and the signed 365-Day Done Right Promise in your hand.
How Much Does Kitchen Remodeling Cost in Houston?
A typical full kitchen remodel in Houston runs $14,000 to $45,000. A small kitchen remodel runs $9,000 to $20,000. Cabinet installation alone falls between $4,000 and $13,000, and countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500. Those are the numbers we write into our contracts, and they hold.
What moves the price is the grade of cabinetry, the countertop material, whether plumbing or gas lines relocate, and the condition of the substrate when we open the walls. A slab-granite countertop over a leveled base costs more than laminate over a sloped floor that gets corrected, and the written price reflects that difference line by line.
To avoid overpaying in Houston, get a price that includes rough-in, substrate correction, and permit fees, not a teaser quote that “forgets” them. A free estimate from us includes all of that: measured scope, documented brands, permit path, and a fixed number. Call (940) 289-7658 and you’ll get a written estimate, not a ballpark to be revised later.
Our Service Area Near Houston
Bradford Remodeling Co Houston serves homeowners across the greater Houston metro, including Kitchen Remodeling in Jersey Village, Kitchen Remodeling in Sugar Land, Stafford, Pasadena, Atascocita, La Porte, Channelview, Cloverleaf, Cinco Ranch, Pecan Grove, and West University Place. If you’re within the metro and wondering whether we cover your street, call us; a live person answers and can tell you in under a minute. We’ll give you a straight answer on scheduling and service area, not a callback promise.
Serving Houston, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Houston area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions About Kitchen Remodeling in Houston
Kitchen remodeling is the process of updating or replacing the cabinets, countertops, appliances, flooring, lighting, plumbing, and electrical systems in an existing kitchen, often including structural or layout changes. In Houston, a remodel differs from a refresh because it usually involves permits for electrical, plumbing, or structural work. Bradford Remodeling Co Houston handles the full scope, from demolition through inspection sign-off, with a written price before work begins.
A full kitchen remodel typically takes 4 to 10 weeks depending on the scope, the permit path, and material lead times. A small kitchen remodel in Houston can run a shorter schedule, often 3 to 6 weeks, while cabinet installation alone may be complete inside of a week. We’ll give you a written schedule with your scope, and we hold to it the same way we hold to the price.
In Houston, a full kitchen remodel runs $14,000 to $45,000, and a small kitchen remodel runs $9,000 to $20,000. Cabinet installation is $4,000 to $13,000, and countertop installation is $2,000 to $6,500 depending on material. Call (940) 289-7658 for a written estimate on your specific kitchen, because the price always depends on footage, materials, and substrate condition.
We install KraftMaid cabinetry and follow the manufacturer’s published installation tolerances so the warranty remains intact. We also work with documented brands across cabinetry, countertops, and fixtures, so the specification is never a guess. If you have KraftMaid already installed and want matching doors for a refacing job, we can source them through the same documented line.
We don’t sell kitchen remodels as same-day emergency work, because no honest contractor can deliver a permitted remodel that way. But if you have active water leaking under your sink base or a countertop failure that’s putting your cabinets at risk, call (940) 289-7658 and we’ll get someone out to assess it quickly. A live person answers 24/7, and we’ll tell you straight what needs to happen first.
Yes. Every completed kitchen remodel carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: a written one-year guarantee covering our workmanship and installation. If the work fails within that window, Bradford returns and corrects it at no charge. That guarantee is written into your close-out paperwork, signed, and in your hand at the end of the job.
Set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere in the home, clear the cabinets and counters before our crew arrives, and make a list of the appliances you want to keep versus replace. We’ll handle the dust control, floor protection, and site protection, but the faster you can clear the space, the sooner demolition starts. The preparation list is included with your written scope, so nothing is left to guesswork.
Schedule Your Kitchen Remodeling Service in Houston Today
If you’re ready for a written price on your Houston kitchen remodel, call (940) 289-7658 and ask for your free estimate. You’ll get a straight number, a documented scope, and the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing before any work begins. A live person answers around the clock, and you’ll never sit through a voicemail queue to reach us.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner at Bradford Remodeling Co Houston, serving Houston since 2004.
