Kitchen remodeling in Brooklyn

In most Brooklyn row houses the kitchen sits at the garden level at the back of the house, opening to the yard. That position is what makes a Brooklyn kitchen different from an apartment kitchen anywhere else in the city.

What the garden level allows

Being at the bottom of the house means waste has somewhere to go, so a sink can usually move properly rather than a few inches. It also means the room is partly below grade, so moisture and light are real constraints on what can be built and how it will look.

Opening to the yard

The change most row house kitchens here want is more light and a better connection to the garden. Whether that is straightforward depends entirely on what is carrying the load above the opening. We establish that at the visit, and where it needs an engineer or an architect to file it we say so rather than quoting around it.

Cabinetry

Row house walls are rarely straight and corners are rarely square. A run scribed to the actual wall is what stops a tapering gap appearing behind the worktop, and where a finished piece will not come up the stair it is made in the room instead.

The days without a kitchen

Longer than people expect and mostly at the end, because a stone worktop cannot be templated until the cabinets are set.

Questions people ask