Kitchen remodeling on Staten Island

Kitchens here are larger than the city average, and that puts something back on the table that an apartment kitchen never gets: the layout itself.

What can move

Waste is still the constraint. A sink can move along a wall easily and across a room only where the waste can keep its fall, which in a house with a basement below is far more often possible than in an apartment with a neighbour below.

That is the single biggest practical difference in this borough. A layout change that would be refused outright in a co op is frequently buildable here, and it is worth asking about before settling for the kitchen you already have.

Cabinetry

Houses out here are newer than the city's prewar stock, so walls are straighter and stock cabinetry fits better. Where a run meets an out of square corner we scribe a filler to the actual wall rather than leaving a tapering gap, which is the detail that separates a fitted kitchen from a placed one.

The days without a kitchen

Longer than people expect, and mostly at the end. The room is unusable from strip out until the worktop is templated, made and fitted, and a stone worktop cannot be templated until the cabinets are set. We tell you where that gap falls so you can plan around it.

What drives the cost

Whether services move, the cabinetry, the worktop material, and appliances that bring their own requirements for power and ventilation.

Questions people ask