Kitchens
We plan kitchens around how you cook, gather, and store. Our kitchen remodeling in Maryland and Washington, D.C. settles layout, cabinetry, surfaces, and lighting on paper, so the important details are resolved before construction begins.
Approach
A kitchen is decided in the drawings.
Many kitchen problems start with a single measurement that wasn't checked. That can mean a dishwasher door that blocks a drawer, an island that pinches the walkway, a pendant hung where a cabinet door needs to swing. We work through those details in design, with your household's routine in mind, before anything is ordered.
The drawings account for what sits inside the walls as well as what sits in front of them: plumbing runs, the duct for the range hood, electrical capacity for new appliances, and the framing that carries the wall cabinets.
The kitchens in this gallery, from a walnut kitchen in Tulip Hill, Bethesda, to projects in Kensington, Glen Echo, and Annapolis, each began with the same questions about how the room is really used.
In Design
Resolved before construction
- Layout
- Work zones, walkway clearances, and where people gather while someone cooks.
- Cabinetry
- Door and drawer layout, interior storage, and how panels meet walls and ceilings.
- Appliances
- Sizes, door swings, ventilation, and the power and water each one needs.
- Lighting
- Task, ambient, and accent light placed for the counters, the island, and evenings.
- Surfaces
- Counters, backsplash, and flooring chosen together, with seams and edges planned.
What's Included
What's included in an iBuild kitchen
Kitchen planning connects the cabinet layout to the appliances, counters, and lighting you select. We check how each choice affects the others: an appliance dimension can change a cabinet opening, while a counter seam or backsplash height can affect the finished detail.
Cabinetry, counters, appliances, and fixtures are considered together in the kitchen budget. Our planning and proposal commitments are explained in Why iBuild.
How each stage runs, from the first conversation to completion, is laid out on Our Process. If the kitchen is one part of a larger change to how the house works, see our Whole-Home Remodeling and Additions projects. When you're ready, start your project with a short form.
Questions
Kitchen questions, answered plainly
Every kitchen is different, so we don't quote a typical number. Cost is driven by whether walls, plumbing, or windows move, how the cabinetry is built and finished, the counter material, the appliances, and what we find behind the existing walls. We explain the budget for your particular kitchen.
That depends on the scope, the lead times for the cabinetry and appliances you choose, and the conditions uncovered once the old kitchen comes out. The schedule is set once design and selections are settled, and any change to it is explained as it happens.
Many homeowners do. Before construction starts, we talk through how your household will cook, eat, and move through the house while the kitchen is out of use, and we plan the work around that.
Design is part of what we do. Read about iBuild for more about our approach. If you already have drawings, bring them to the first conversation. When the scope or permitting requirements call for an architect or engineer, we coordinate those services.
Planning a remodel or addition?
Tell us how you use your kitchen today and what you'd like to change.