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Fast, Reliable Kitchen Remodeling Across Burbank
A full kitchen remodel in Burbank typically runs $14,000 – $45,000, with smaller or partial remodels landing between $9,000 and $20,000. What moves that number isn’t the showroom stuff. It’s what’s inside your walls. Penhallow Remodeling serves Burbank homeowners with written pricing before any work starts, and our Kitchen Remodeling team knows what a 1950s tract kitchen tends to hide. If you’re planning a remodel in Magnolia Park, the Rancho District, or along Glenoaks Boulevard, call (936) 259-2607 to schedule a free estimate.
Why Penhallow Remodeling Is Burbank’s Preferred Kitchen Remodeling Company
Burbank is a city where homeowners have been burned before. We hear it on nearly every first call: a contractor who quoted one number, then handed over a different invoice after demo day. That’s precisely the problem Penhallow was built to solve. Every project starts with a written price, not a verbal ballpark, and the number you approve is the number on the final invoice unless something behind the wall forces a change – and even then, it gets priced, explained, and approved in writing before we touch it.
Our background-checked, uniformed technicians work across Burbank every week, from the tree-lined streets of Magnolia Park up toward the Verdugo foothills. We answer the phone with a live person 24/7, so when you call with a question mid-project, you reach someone who knows your job, not a voicemail maze. The 365-Day Done Right Promise backs every kitchen we build: if the work fails inside the guarantee period, we come back and fix it at no charge. That’s a written guarantee, included with every job, not a verbal assurance.
Trevor Nash leads our team with a simple operating standard – the Kingswell Way, which means we say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, and leave the job site cleaner than we found it. Part of the Kingswell family of companies since 2004, our Burbank crew is coordinated from the brand’s Los Angeles office, so scheduling and permitting run through one point of contact for the whole project.
Small Kitchen Remodel in Burbank
A small kitchen remodel in Burbank typically costs $9,000 – $20,000, depending on whether you’re keeping the existing footprint or shifting a sink wall. In Burbank’s post-WWII tract homes, a small kitchen remodel often means working within a 90- to 120-square-foot galley or L-shaped space, where every inch of cabinet and counter run matters. Homeowners in the Rancho District and along Victory Boulevard frequently ask us to keep the original layout but replace everything within it: cabinets, counters, backsplash, lighting, and flooring.
What a Small Kitchen Remodel Actually Covers
We replace cabinet boxes and doors, install new countertops, swap in a new sink and faucet, and set a tile backsplash. If the original layout works, we don’t move plumbing or gas lines, which keeps the permit scope tighter and the schedule shorter. Where we do open walls, we inspect for the wiring and waterproofing issues Burbank’s older homes are known for before closing anything back up.
When Burbank Homeowners Choose This Path
You choose a small kitchen remodel when the bones are sound but the surfaces are worn out. It’s the right call for a 1950s Burbank kitchen with original metal cabinets, a cracked tile counter, and a floor that’s seen better decades. You get a fully updated kitchen without relocating utilities or changing the structural envelope, which keeps the project out of the cost territory of a full gut.
Kitchen Cabinet Refacing Contractors in Burbank
Kitchen cabinet refacing in Burbank generally runs $4,000 – $13,000, depending on door style, veneer material, and whether you’re adding new drawer fronts or soft-close hardware. For Burbank homeowners whose cabinet boxes are still square and solid, refacing gives the kitchen a new look without the tear-out, disposal, and framing work that full replacement requires. It’s a smart move in Magnolia Park bungalows where original 1920s or 1930s cabinet boxes were often built from old-growth fir you can’t easily replace.
What Refacing Involves
We remove the old doors and drawer fronts, apply a matched veneer to the exposed cabinet boxes, and install new doors, drawers, and hardware. The process keeps your countertops in place, so it works well when the counters are fine but the cabinet faces are dated or peeling. We source our door and veneer products from KraftMaid and Wellborn, so the finish and the warranty are both backed by recognized trade brands.
Is Refacing Right for Your Burbank Kitchen?
Refacing makes sense when the cabinet layout works and the boxes are still glued tight at the corners. If your Burbank kitchen has water damage around the sink base, swollen particleboard, or drawers that slide on worn-out wood tracks, refacing won’t fix those structural problems. We’ll tell you straight if replacement is the better use of your money, because writing a guarantee on a refacing job we know won’t last is not something we’ll do.
Trusted Brands We Service in Burbank
We install and service kitchen products from manufacturers whose warranties stand up to scrutiny, because our 365-Day Done Right Promise sits on top of theirs, and the layers matter. If you’re putting Cambria or Silestone quartz on your Burbank counters, that surface carries its own manufacturer warranty alongside ours. We work with Caesarstone for engineered stone, Kohler and Moen for fixtures, and KraftMaid and Wellborn for cabinetry, so the material behind the guarantee is as solid as the promise itself. For Burbank homeowners in the design phase, we also walk through how your cabinet and counter choices hold up in a kitchen that gets hot, dry summers and hard water.
Common Kitchen Remodeling Problems We See in Burbank Homes
- Ungrounded or cloth-wrapped wiring behind the walls. Burbank’s post-WWII stucco-over-wood-frame homes were built before grounded conductors were required, and opening a kitchen wall often exposes wiring that can’t pass a rough-in inspection. The fix is a panel upgrade or circuit rewire, priced and approved before we proceed.
- Failed or missing waterproofing under the floor. We regularly pull up old flooring in Burbank kitchens and find no pan liner, no moisture barrier, and subfloor rot around the sink and dishwasher. If we find it during demo, we document it, price the repair, and get your written approval before any new flooring goes down.
- Undersized framing in load-bearing walls. If your 1950s tract kitchen has a wall between the kitchen and living room you want opened up, there’s a real chance the header is undersized or missing entirely. We won’t cut into a structural wall without an engineer’s plan and a properly sized header, and we factor that into the written scope before any saw touches a stud.
- Permit triggers that catch homeowners off guard. A Burbank kitchen remodel that moves a sink, adds an outlet, or changes a gas line triggers a permit, and the inspector will check the rough-in work before drywall closes it up. Skipping that inspection stalls the entire job, so we schedule it as part of the plan, not after the fact.
Pricing for Kitchen Remodeling in Burbank, CA
Here’s what Burbank homeowners can expect to pay, based on the work we do most often across the city:
| Project | Typical Range in Burbank |
|---|---|
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
| Kitchen Remodel (full) | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Kitchen Cabinet Refacing | $4,000 – $13,000 |
| Countertop Installation | $2,000 – $6,500 |
| Backsplash Installation | $800 – $2,500 |
| Kitchen Island Installation | $3,000 – $10,000 |
What pushes a Burbank kitchen toward the top of those ranges? Opening a wall and finding ungrounded wiring that requires a panel upgrade, replacing a load-bearing header that’s undersized, or tearing out a floor that was never waterproofed. Those aren’t markups; they’re code corrections and structural repairs an inspector will require before signing off on the rough-in. When we quote your Burbank kitchen, we walk the space first, check the accessible framing and electrical, and write allowances into the contract for the known unknowns. Call (936) 259-2607 to schedule your free estimate, and we’ll give you a written number before any work starts.
We Also Serve Cities Near Burbank
If you’re just outside Burbank, we also work in Glendale, North Hollywood, Studio City, and La Canada Flintridge. Our crews know the hillside conditions in La Canada, the older housing stock in Glendale, and the condo-specific permitting in North Hollywood and Studio City. For full details on what we do across the wider area, see Kitchen Remodeling in Burbank and the surrounding communities we cover.
Serving Burbank, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Burbank area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Kitchen Remodeling in Burbank
In Burbank’s post-WWII stucco-over-wood-frame homes, opening a kitchen wall frequently exposes ungrounded or cloth-wrapped conductors, undersized framing, or missing waterproofing that no one could see before demo. A contractor who doesn’t price those before starting hands you a change order mid-rough-in. We inspect first, write allowances into the contract for realistic behind-the-wall conditions, and every change is priced, explained, and approved in writing before we proceed. Call (936) 259-2607 to talk through what your specific home is likely to reveal.
Most Burbank kitchen remodels need a permit, especially if you’re moving a sink, adding outlets, changing a gas line, or altering a load-bearing wall. The permit triggers a city inspection at the rough-in stage, and the inspector verifies electrical grounding, plumbing venting, and structural headers before drywall closes the wall. If the work doesn’t pass, the job stalls. We pull permits and schedule inspections as part of our standard scope, so the inspection gate doesn’t become a surprise.
Yes, and a small kitchen remodel in a Magnolia Park bungalow is often the right scope: keep the original 1920s or 1930s footprint, replace cabinet fronts or boxes, set new counters, add a backsplash, and update fixtures without moving structural walls. What you can’t skip is the behind-the-wall inspection, because those older bungalows often have original wiring and no moisture barrier under the floor. We’ll confirm what’s serviceable and what has to be corrected before we quote the final number.
Burbank sits under FAA Part 77 airspace surfaces tied to Hollywood Burbank Airport, which means any addition or structural change that adds height can trigger a two-agency review: the city and the FAA. For a kitchen remodel that stays within the existing envelope, the airport rarely matters. But if your remodel includes a second-story expansion or rooftop element, the FAA obstruction evaluation can add weeks to the permit timeline, and it’s something a Glendale or Pasadena contractor may never have encountered.
We document everything before the wall is closed. In Magnolia Park we opened the wall behind a 1948 bungalow’s range and found cloth-wrapped ungrounded wiring feeding the old kitchen circuit, plus a shower-era drain pan that had never been waterproofed. We stopped, documented each condition, priced the panel upgrade and pan replacement as a change order, and got written approval before touching the rough-in. That’s the Kingswell Way: the price is in writing, the guarantee is in writing, and the final invoice matches the signed scope of work. Call (936) 259-2607 to schedule a free estimate, and we’ll put the process in motion.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling, serving Burbank under the Kingswell Guarantee since 2004.







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