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Kitchen remodeling in Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach lies across the Santa Ana River from West Newport, twenty to thirty minutes from most of Newport Beach depending on Pacific Coast Highway. It is a much larger city, with about 195,240 residents and 82,624 housing units, and roughly 69 percent of that housing was built before 1980.
The building profile is heavily concentrated: about a third of the housing stock dates from the 1960s and another 30 percent from the 1970s. That is a city built in two decades, and it means the kitchens repeat. The recurring plan is a closed kitchen at the rear of a single-storey tract house, wall cabinets under a soffit, a window over the sink, a slider to the yard nearby, and a wall separating the room from the family space.
The project that follows is familiar: take out the wall, take out the soffit, and rebuild. The wall between kitchen and family room on this stock is bearing more often than not, so the structural conversation and its costs apply exactly as they do in Newport Heights. Permits come from the City of Huntington Beach.
Coastal exposure is real here and reaches further inland than people assume, because the prevailing onshore wind carries salt across a flat city with little to break it. The finish and hardware choices that hold up in Corona del Mar hold up here, and the ones that fail there fail here too. That applies to appliance exteriors and cabinet hardware more than it does to cabinetry itself.
Access is generally easy. Flat lots, garages and driveways, and ordinary suburban streets mean staging is straightforward everywhere except the streets immediately behind the beach, where parking becomes a summer problem in the same way it does on the peninsula.
Project types available in Huntington Beach
- Full Kitchen Remodel
- Everything out and everything new: cabinetry, surfaces, appliances, lighting, flooring and the wiring and plumbing behind them.
- Kitchen Cabinetry
- New boxes, refaced fronts, or a full custom build, specified around how the room is really used and what the salt air will do to the finish.
- Countertops and Backsplash
- Slab selection, templating, fabrication and installation, with the seam and edge decisions made before the stone is cut rather than after.
- Kitchen Layout Changes
- Taking out the wall between the kitchen and the rest of the house, and doing it as a structural job rather than a demolition job.
- Kitchen Islands
- An island that earns its floor space: sized to the clearances the room can give, and serviced properly if it carries a sink or a cooktop.
- Kitchen Electrical and Plumbing
- The half of a kitchen remodel nobody sees, and the half that decides whether the finished room passes inspection.
- Condo and HOA Kitchens
- Kitchen work in an association building, where the constraints are as much procedural as they are structural.
For a price on a specific address in Huntington Beach, call (949) 791-4160 or use the quote form. The visit and the written quote cost nothing.
Background reading
Journal
Written for Newport Beach homeowners
The 1970s Kitchen Is Newport Beach's Most Common Renovation
The 1970s produced more Newport Beach housing than any other decade, and the kitchens from it all share the same three problems. What they are and what fixing them costs.
Kitchen Work on Balboa Island: Inches, Access and Old Services
The smallest lots in Newport Beach, the oldest housing, and a single bridge. What that means for a kitchen project on Balboa Island, and how experienced crews plan around it.
HOA Approval Runs on Its Own Clock, Not the City's
Association approval and a city permit are separate processes with separate timelines. How to sequence them on a Newport Beach condo kitchen so neither one stalls the other.
Get a kitchen quote in Huntington Beach
Call (949) 791-4160 or use the quote form, and a Newport Beach kitchen company prices the work at no charge.