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Practical guidance on remodeling a kitchen in Greater New Orleans, written by the people who do the work. Layouts, cabinets, worktops, materials and what our climate does to all of them.
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The guide most New Orleans homeowners read first, because it answers the question everybody asks before anything else.
Kitchen Remodeling Costs in New Orleans: What to Expect
What actually moves the number on a New Orleans kitchen, from whether the plumbing stays put to how much of the cabinetry is built rather than bought.
Kitchen Layout Ideas for Your Space
Galley, L-shape, U-shape and island layouts, and which of them a fixed New Orleans footprint will actually accept.
Flood and Humidity Resistant Materials
The materials that survive a Gulf Coast summer and the ones that quietly fail, which is the most local decision in any remodel here.
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Recent Guides From Our Team
Written from the jobs we run across Greater New Orleans rather than from a keyword list. Every one answers a question a homeowner actually asked us.
Kitchen Layout Ideas: Choosing the Best Layout for Your Space
Which layout your footprint will take, and which one only works on paper.
How to Choose the Best Material for Your Kitchen Countertops
What each surface asks of you once the kitchen is in daily use.
Color Trends in Kitchen Design
How colour changes the size a room appears to be, before any wall moves.
Exploring the Most Popular Types of Kitchen Cabinets
Custom, semi-custom and stock, plus the door styles that sit on top of them.
How to Layer Kitchen Lighting for Function and Style
The cheapest change available to a room with one window or none.
How to Choose the Perfect Countertop for a Small Kitchen
Where a compact run changes the material answer entirely.
Modern vs. Traditional Kitchens: Which Style Suits You?
Choosing the style that suits the house rather than the magazine.
How to Add Value With a Kitchen Countertop Remodel
The smallest change that shifts how the whole room is valued.
How Long Does a Kitchen Remodel Take?
Realistic timelines, and the one decision that stretches all of them.
How to Choose Kitchen Appliances for Your Remodel
Sizing the appliances to the room before the cabinetry is ordered, not after.
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What We Write About
Every guide on this New Orleans blog falls into one of these. Each links to the service page behind it.
Layout and design
Work triangles, islands, and reconciling a plan with a footprint that will not move.
Cabinets
Custom against stock, door styles, refacing, refinishing and what fails first.
Countertops
Stone, quartz, laminate and timber, and the maintenance each one carries.
Materials and humidity
What a Gulf Coast summer does to a kitchen, and what survives it.
Lighting and colour
The two cheapest changes available to a dated room, and how far they go.
Cost and timelines
What moves the number, what moves the schedule, and how to plan around both.
Written from the work
Why We Write These
Most kitchen advice online is written for a drier climate and a newer house. Ours is written from jobs in Greater New Orleans and the parishes around it.
Local conditions, not general advice
Humidity, slab construction and older footprints change what works here. A guide written elsewhere will not tell you that a door hung in January can bind by August.
Answers to real questions
Every post starts from something a homeowner asked us at an estimate. That is why they read like answers rather than like brochures.
No pressure to hire us
Plenty of these guides will tell you the smaller job is the right one. We would rather you made a good decision than a large one.
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The Services Behind the Guides
Every topic on this New Orleans blog has a service page behind it. These are the ones readers go to next.
Kitchen Design
Where the layout is settled before anything is ordered.
Kitchen Cabinets
Installation, repair, refacing and custom builds.
Countertop Remodel
Stone, quartz and timber, or a resurface of what you have.
Cabinet Refinishing
The route when the boxes are sound and the finish is tired.
Small Kitchen Remodeling
Making a tight footprint hold considerably more.
Service Areas
Every city we cover across the region.
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Tell us about your kitchen anywhere in Greater New Orleans or the surrounding parishes. We will come out, take measurements, and give you a real number for the design, the materials, and the labor.