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Kitchen remodeling in Northwest Hills, TX
Good houses on difficult ground, with floor plans built for how families lived fifty years ago. In Northwest Hills the question is more often where the kitchen should be than what it should look like.
Solid houses, dated plans.
Northwest Hills was largely built through the 1960s and 1970s, on hilly ground north of the river. The houses are well constructed and generously sized for their era — and laid out for a time when the kitchen was a separate working room that guests didn’t enter.
So the most common problem we’re brought in to solve here isn’t a tired kitchen. It’s a kitchen in the wrong part of the house, with the family circulating around a decision made in 1968.
The terrain adds the second complication. Lots step, and houses follow them, so floor levels change between rooms more often than they do in flatter parts of Austin.
Valburn Drive.
The kitchen wasn’t in the wrong condition. It was in the wrong place — so we moved the whole thing, and reframed two windows to suit the new layout.
Relocating a kitchen in a slab house means cutting the concrete, rerouting the drains, inspecting and repouring before anything visible happens. Roughly a third of the $150,000 went into work nobody will ever see.
What a Northwest Hills project costs.
The houses here are mostly 1960s and 1970s, which means original panels, cast iron drains and walls that are load-bearing more often than not. Those four things decide the number long before finishes do.
Valburn Drive, a few streets away, came to $150,000 — and about a third of that went into work nobody will ever see.
Remodeling in Northwest Hills — answered
How much does a kitchen remodel cost in Northwest Hills?
$50,000 to $175,000 across three tiers. Those are the ranges most of our projects land in — not a ceiling. We build well above them when the house calls for it. Valburn Drive — a full relocation with window reframing — came to $150,000, the middle of the layout-change tier.
Can the kitchen be moved to a different part of the house?
Yes, and in this neighborhood it’s often the right answer. It means cutting the slab to reroute drains, running gas and a heavier electrical load to a new location, and usually reframing openings. It’s a bigger project than a remodel and it solves a problem a remodel can’t.
Why are the floor levels different between rooms?
Because the lots step with the terrain and the houses were built to follow them. It matters when you open one room into another — it becomes a structural and a finish problem at the same time, and it should be priced before drawings.
Do these houses have anything unexpected behind the walls?
On a house of this era, budget ten to fifteen percent for it. Cast iron drain lines and undersized electrical are the two we find most often, and both matter more when the kitchen is moving.
We have built here. Come and see it.
The first visit costs nothing and takes an hour. We’ll tell you honestly whether your kitchen needs a remodel or a relocation, and what each one costs.
Other work we do here.
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