Kitchen Remodeling in Houston, TX

Each service below has its own page, and several of them typically run together on one job.

Picking a tile sample is the easy part. Trusting that the same crew shows up tomorrow is the hard part.

Here is what HQ Kitchen Remodel puts behind that trust, in plain terms:

• 360 reviews from Houston-area homeowners we've built for.
• 350+ projects completed since 2015.
• Licensed and insured, with the scope in writing before anyone picks up a hammer.
• One named contact who carries the job from the first measurement to the walkthrough.

Nothing gets built before it is written down, priced, and approved by you, and we are equally upfront about the slow stretches, including the weeks your countertop spends at the fabricator.

Houston Heights, Woodland Heights, and Norhill were mostly built out from the 1890s through the 1930s, and the standard house is a wood-frame craftsman bungalow sitting on a pier-and-beam foundation over a crawlspace — often with only eighteen to twenty-four inches of clearance underneath. That crawlspace was Houston's original flood strategy, lifting the living floor above grade, but Gulf Coast humidity collects down there year-round. Left unmanaged, it drives wood movement, racked door frames, and slow rot at the sill plate.

A few miles north, Garden Oaks and Oak Forest are a different build entirely. Think 1940s and 1950s cottages and ranch homes, most on a slab instead of pier-and-beam. The issues there run more conventional — dated wiring, an undersized panel, a closed-off floor plan — but the same Harris County rule applies to both: roughly thirty percent of the city sits inside a mapped floodplain, which can add a floodplain development permit on top of the plumbing, electrical, and structural permits a real kitchen remodel already needs.

Tear-out day tells you what's really behind the cabinets, and in this city it follows a pattern:

• Galvanized or cast-iron supply and waste lines that push a plumbing upgrade onto the table.
• Cloth-wrapped or knob-and-tube wiring feeding a panel that was never sized for today's appliances.
• Soft or damp subfloor near the sink wall, usually traced back to a slow leak nobody had found yet.
• A sill plate showing moisture damage where a pier-and-beam crawlspace has been trapping humidity for decades.
• An undersized island or no island at all, common in kitchens built before open-plan living was standard.
• Single-pane windows or a soffit hiding old ductwork, both of which change what the cabinet layout can do.

Anything unexpected becomes a written change order with your sign-off, photographed as we find it.