Serving the greater Tampa Bay area
Kitchen Remodeling in Tampa
Letting a contractor tear apart the busiest room in your house is a leap of faith. You've heard the stories. The crew that started strong and disappeared after demo. The quote that doubled once the cabinets came out. If you're picturing a new kitchen and bracing for that, I get it. Here's how we work, and why folks around Tampa keep calling us back.
I'm Ricky Powers. I've been remodeling homes for 30+ years, and I still walk every job myself. When you call, you talk to me, not a sales office.
The kitchens we see around Tampa
Tampa is a city of two kinds of houses, and they want two different things.
There are the older homes: the bungalows and craftsman houses you find around Seminole Heights, Hyde Park, and Tampa Heights. Beautiful bones, real character, and kitchens that were built for a different century. Small, closed off, a pantry where you'd want a counter. People love these houses and want a kitchen that works without wrecking what makes the place special.
Then there's the newer stock out in New Tampa and Westchase. Solid construction, more open already, but a builder-grade kitchen that came with the house and never felt like yours. That's a different project. Less about fixing what's hidden, more about laying out a space that finally fits how you cook and live.
We do both. The plan starts with which one you've got.
What drives the cost of a Tampa kitchen
A kitchen is not one price, because it's not one job. The number moves with the choices you make.
Cabinets are usually the biggest line. Stock, semi-custom, full custom: the spread is wide, and the middle is where people overspend without meaning to. Counters are next, and the install matters as much as the slab you pick. Then there's the quiet one: are we moving anything? Keep the sink, range, and walls where they sit and you save real money. Move the plumbing or take out a wall, and now you're into permits, framing, and electrical. Sometimes that wall is worth every dollar. Sometimes it's the line that blows your budget for no real gain, and I'll tell you which one yours is.
The part nobody likes: what's behind the walls
This is the Tampa reality, and it's louder in the older neighborhoods. Open up a Seminole Heights or Tampa Heights kitchen and you don't always find what you hoped. Wiring that isn't close to current code. Plumbing that's tired and brittle. Now and then a soft subfloor or a bit of water damage that nobody could see until demo day.
A straight contractor builds room for that into the conversation before we start, instead of surprising you with it on a Tuesday. We pull the right permits, too, through the City of Tampa or unincorporated Hillsborough County depending on where you sit. That's not where we cut corners.
One crew, start to finish
You won't get handed off. The same crew that demos your kitchen is the one that sets the cabinets and the one that cleans up the last day. We protect your floors, we keep the site swept, and we tell you what's happening each step. A good kitchen takes weeks, not a weekend. We'd rather set that expectation honestly than promise you a Friday finish we can't hit.
And if your budget doesn't match your wish list, I'll say so. I'd rather lose the job than take your money on a plan I know won't land where you want it.