Kitchen Remodeling in Broadview Heights, Ohio

Broadview Heights kitchens fall into a few clear groups, and the group your house belongs to decides most of the design. On the older streets off Broadview Road and Edgerton Road, the kitchen is usually a separate room with a doorway into the dining room and a window over the sink. There is counter space on two walls and nothing in the middle, so two people cooking get in each other's way.

Split levels are the second group. The kitchen sits half a floor above the family room, often with a peninsula or a half wall between them. Storage runs out fast because the upper cabinets stop well short of the ceiling and a deep corner base swallows anything put in it.

The newer homes on the south and west side of the city, closer to Royalton Road and the Medina County line, have the opposite problem. The footprint is generous and the island is long, but the pantry is shallow, there is no landing space next to the ovens, and the island ends up carrying the whole kitchen. We design for all three, and the drawings start from your measurements, not from a stock layout.

The first change is almost always the wall. Opening the kitchen to the dining room or dropping the half wall over a split level peninsula changes how the room feels more than any finish does. Once that is decided, the appliance positions follow, because the refrigerator door should not swing into the main walkway.

Inside the cabinets, drawers replace doors on the base runs. Deep drawers hold pots better than a low shelf, and a pull out corner unit recovers the space a fixed lazy susan wastes. Uppers go taller so the run reaches the ceiling, which adds a shelf and removes the dust ledge.

A pantry cabinet usually replaces the shallow closet pantry, and the island gets a proper overhang if the family eats there. Resale matters here too. Homes in the Brecksville Broadview Heights school district get compared closely by buyers, and the kitchen is the room they measure against the house down the street.

Start with the appliances. Their sizes set the cabinet widths, so a decision to go from a 30 inch range to a 36 inch one changes the whole run. Bring the model numbers to the showroom if you already own them, or bring the measurements of the openings if you do not.

Check the permit side early. Moving plumbing, adding circuits or taking out a wall usually needs a permit through the Broadview Heights building department, and we can put together the drawings and details that go with the application.

Then plan for living through it. Most Broadview Heights homes have a basement or a dining room that can hold a temporary sink, microwave and refrigerator, and the garage entry means the crew can keep the traffic to one route through the mudroom. Decide the layout first, the door style second, the countertop third. Doing it in that sequence stops good choices being undone by a measurement that does not work.