San Francisco General Contractors remodels kitchens and baths across the central and east districts. In an older home these are the rooms you use most and the ones that date the house the fastest, and they are also the most technical to get right, because they pack plumbing, electrical, tile, cabinetry, and waterproofing into a small footprint, often inside plaster-and-lath walls with original routing. We plan the remodel around how you actually use the room, then build it with the systems and the waterproofing done correctly behind the finishes.
- Layout and cabinetry reworked
- New tile, counters, and fixtures
- Plumbing and electrical brought to code
- Waterproofing done right
- One design and build team
The layout is what makes a kitchen or bath work
A beautiful kitchen with a bad layout is still a frustrating kitchen, and old San Francisco homes are full of original kitchens tucked into the darkest corner of the flat. Before any finish gets chosen, we work out how the room should flow: where the cooking, the prep, the cleanup, and the storage go, how people move through a narrow space, and how to fit it into the footprint you have. The same goes for a bath, where the placement of the vanity, the shower, and the storage decides how the room feels every morning.
Sometimes the best improvement is moving a wall, relocating a window, opening to an adjacent room, or borrowing a bit of an oversized hall. Because we plan and build together, those structural moves are on the table from the start rather than ruled out because a separate designer never priced the framing or the rerouted stack.
We design the layout with you, then confirm it works against the real plumbing and electrical routing of an old house before we commit. A layout that looks good on paper but fights an original stack or a load-bearing wall is a layout that drives up cost, so we settle that early.
What happens behind the tile in an old house
Kitchens and baths fail from the inside out when the work behind the finishes is rushed, and in a century-old home there is more to address back there than in a new one. Waterproofing a shower correctly, venting and rerouting old plumbing properly, and replacing knob-and-tube and undersized circuits are the steps that decide whether the room lasts or leaks. They are also exactly the steps a too-cheap remodel skips, because no one sees them on opening day.
We do that work to standard. The shower pan and the wet walls are waterproofed correctly, the plumbing is rerouted and vented to code, and the circuits and outlets a modern kitchen or bath needs are added rather than overloaded onto a tired old panel. It is unglamorous work, and it is what keeps the remodel sound for years in a house that has already stood for a hundred.
Because one crew handles the whole room, the cabinetry, the tile, the counters, and the systems are coordinated from the start. Nothing gets wedged in at the end, and the finishes sit on top of work that was done right.
Finishes chosen to fit the home and the budget
The finishes are where your choices swing the cost the most, and where the room takes on its character. Cabinetry, counters, tile, flooring, and fixtures can be specified to a simple, durable level or a high-end personal level, with a real difference in price. We help you choose finishes that fit the design and the budget rather than defaulting to the biggest ticket.
We also match the new work to the rest of an older home so a remodeled kitchen or bath reads as intentional, not as a single modern room floating inside a period house. The trim, the hardware, and the palette get chosen with the character of the home in mind, whether you want the room to nod to the era or to contrast it cleanly.
If you are planning a kitchen or bath remodel in central San Francisco, call 628-295-7373 for a free in-home consultation and an honest, written plan for the rooms you use most.
Connecting the home's pieces
A home is a design-build project, so kitchen & bath remodeling rarely stands alone, it connects to basement conversion, custom carpentry, our general contracting service, a room addition, renovating the whole home, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Noe Valley kitchen & bath remodeling, Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Mission District, Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Bernal Heights, Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Glen Park and everywhere else across the San Francisco area.
If you searched for a general contractor near San Francisco, you have reached a local home contractor, call 628-295-7373 any time. For background, read Knob-and-Tube and Old Systems: What to Update During a Remodel on our blog, or head back to our San Francisco home page to see everything we do.