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Kitchen Remodeling
A kitchen is the most trade-dense room in a house. Cabinetry, counters, plumbing, electrical, ventilation, flooring, tile and paint all have to land in sequence, and the room has to be out of service for as little time as possible.
Venado takes kitchens of different sizes — a focused update to one room is welcome work, not a lesser project.
What usually changes
- Layout changes, including removing or shortening walls to open the kitchen to living space
- Cabinetry, islands and built-in storage
- Countertops, backsplash and tile
- Appliance planning, gas and electrical requirements, and real ventilation
- Plumbing relocation for sinks and pot fillers
- Lighting design — task, ambient and the switching to control it
When a wall is involved
Opening a kitchen to the rest of the house is the most common request, and it is where a remodel turns structural. Beams, posts and load paths have to be handled correctly, and the ceiling has to look intentional afterward.
That is routine work here, and it is where an experienced contractor earns the fee.
How a Venado kitchen remodel runs
Clint walks the kitchen with you first, because the room tells you what is possible — where the plumbing runs, which walls carry load, how the ceiling framing sits above the cabinets you want removed. Scope comes out of that walkthrough, not out of a template.
Once scope is set, cabinetry and stone drive the calendar. Those are the long-lead items, so they get ordered early and the demolition is scheduled around their arrival instead of tearing the room out and waiting. Trades are sequenced so rough plumbing, electrical and ventilation are inspected before anything closes up.
- Walkthrough and scope — what the room allows and what it will take
- Selections and long-lead ordering, coordinated with your cabinet and stone suppliers
- Demolition, framing and any structural work
- Rough plumbing, electrical and ventilation
- Cabinetry set, counters templated and installed
- Tile, paint, lighting trim and a punch walk with you
Kitchens in Colleyville, Southlake and Keller homes
Most of the kitchens Venado works on sit in houses built from the late 1980s through the 2000s across Colleyville, Southlake, Grapevine, Keller and North Richland Hills. They share a pattern: a formal dining room nobody uses, a kitchen closed off by a peninsula or a half wall, a desk nook that has become a mail pile, and soffits dropped over the upper cabinets.
Opening those kitchens up is the work. Removing a soffit, taking a peninsula out, borrowing space from the dining room and running the ceiling flat through the whole area changes how the back of the house lives, and it is almost always a structural conversation rather than a cosmetic one.
Living through it
The kitchen will be out of service, and pretending otherwise does not help anybody. Before demolition we set up a temporary kitchen somewhere workable — a fridge, a microwave, a sink you can still reach — so the household keeps functioning.
Dust control, a defined path for trades through the house and a clean site at the end of each day matter more on a kitchen than on almost any other project, because you are living around it the whole time.
Common questions
- Is my kitchen too small a project for Venado?
- No. Venado works on projects of different sizes, and a single well-executed kitchen is a normal project for us.
- How long will we be without a kitchen?
- It depends on scope and material lead times, especially cabinetry. We give you a realistic window after the scope is set, and we plan a temporary setup so the household can function.
- Do you work with a designer?
- Many clients bring their own designer or select finishes with cabinet and stone suppliers. Venado coordinates with whoever you are working with; we do not present ourselves as an in-house design firm.
- Can you remove the wall between our kitchen and living room?
- Usually, yes — but it has to be evaluated, not assumed. What matters is whether the wall carries load, what is running inside it, and where that load can be transferred. Once we know that, we can tell you what the opening will take and what the ceiling will look like afterward.
- Do you handle permits and inspections?
- Yes. Structural, plumbing, electrical and mechanical work is permitted and inspected through the city the house sits in, and Venado coordinates that as part of the project.
- Can we keep our existing cabinets and just change the counters?
- That is a reasonable project when the cabinet boxes are sound and the layout already works. We will tell you honestly whether the existing cabinetry is worth building on or whether you would be putting new stone on boxes that are near the end of their life.
- Which cities do you remodel kitchens in?
- Colleyville, Southlake, Westlake, Grapevine, Keller, North Richland Hills and the surrounding Dallas–Fort Worth communities.
Next Step
Start a kitchen remodeling conversation.
A short note is plenty. We'll follow up to understand the house and what you're after.
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Whether you are updating one important room or planning a major addition or renovation, the first step is a straightforward conversation.