Kitchen Remodeling in Huntington Beach
Serving 92646 · 92647 · 92648 · 92649 and Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Westminster
Most Huntington Beach kitchens we are asked about sit in 1960s and 1970s tract housing, and tract housing repeats. The same builder put up the same plan along the same street, which means the wall between the kitchen and the family room tends to be carrying the same thing house to house. That predictability is worth real money — it narrows the unknowns before anyone opens anything.
Tract kitchens: the same wall, over and over
Opening the wall
Removing the divider between a closed kitchen and a family room is the single most requested change in this stock. It needs a structural engineer and a permit regardless. What tract construction changes is confidence: the load path is usually understood before demolition rather than discovered during it.
The services behind it
Original panels in this era are often at or near capacity once a modern kitchen's appliance load is added. Galvanised supply lines are common. Both are ordinary, both are solvable, and both belong in the number you are quoted rather than in a change order.
Written by Onn Cohen-Meguri, founder and designer at Design Onn Point. Onn has spent 20+ years designing and building in Los Angeles. CSLB #1133368.
Pricing in Huntington Beach
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