Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling in Anaheim Hills

The Anaheim Hills problem is unused volume

Drive east from the showroom and the housing stock changes completely within about fifteen minutes. Anaheim Hills was developed from the mid-1970s onward on hillside parcels, and the homes were built with volume — two storeys, tall kitchen ceilings, formal dining rooms, and in the larger tracts a butler’s pantry and a wet bar as standard. What they were not built with is cabinetry that uses any of it.

The recurring job here is therefore not making a small kitchen bigger. It is taking a large kitchen that already has the height and finishing it properly: running the wall cabinets to the ceiling, replacing tile counters with slab stone, and either opening or removing the wall that separates the kitchen from the family room. Where the boxes and the plan are sound, refacing does most of that work without a rebuild.

Losing the ornament, keeping the house

The 1990s Estates homes have a specific problem that is not wear. The cabinetry is often in good condition and well built, but heavy with the decoration of its decade — applied corbels, rope moulding, glazed and distressed finishes. Nothing is broken. It simply announces its build year from across the room.

Refinishing to a calmer finish and removing the applied ornament changes which decade the kitchen belongs to more than a new appliance package ever will, and it is a fraction of the cost of replacement. Where a client does want new, custom cabinets let us match the scale of these rooms, which stock sizing struggles with.

Large lots, whole-house work

In Peralta Hills and the larger parcels, kitchens rarely arrive alone. The mudroom takes real traffic, the laundry is a working room rather than a closet, and there is usually a bar. Specifying all of it in one order and one finish family is straightforward; matching it across three separate projects two years apart is not. That is the main reason whole-house cabinetry is more common here than anywhere else we work.

Bathrooms follow the same pattern — the primary suites in these homes are large enough for a genuine walk-in or steam shower and a separate tub, and that is what most clients want when they finally take the room on. Flooring usually runs continuously through the ground floor, which is worth deciding before the kitchen rather than after it.

Getting started

Kitchen Cabinets and Beyond has worked across Orange County since 1995 and holds California contractor licence #902246. The showroom is fifteen minutes from most of Anaheim Hills. Book a visit or ask for a free estimate — and bring the ceiling height, because here it usually decides the project.