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A kitchen is won or lost during the install. The wood can be solid and the quartz can be flawless, and you’ll still see the mistake every morning if the cabinet run wasn’t scribed to a wall that leans. Kitchen Emporium sells and installs under one California contractor’s license, #947147, out of a Chatsworth showroom, with installers who have spent 20-plus years hanging cabinets in Valley houses. That combination is rarer than it sounds. Most showrooms hand you a list of contractors, and most contractors buy somebody else’s boxes. Get the in-home measure done before anything is ordered, and every step after it gets easier.
Quick Takeaways
- One company handles both halves: CA Contractor License #947147 covers the cabinets we sell and the crew that sets them.
- Nothing is ordered off a floor plan. Every kitchen gets measured on site first.
- Installers on the crew have 20-plus years in the trade, and most cabinet installations finish within a week once materials arrive.
- Countertops are templated after the base cabinets are set — quartz, granite, marble or butcher block.
One license covers the sale and the install
Split the job in two and you split the responsibility. The showroom blames the installer, the installer blames the cabinet company, and you end up standing in your own kitchen holding two invoices and a door that still won’t close. Here the boxes on the truck and the crew unloading them work under the same license. One quote, one schedule, and when a drawer front drifts out of alignment six months later, one number to call. LADBS permit records show 3,501 kitchen-related permits issued citywide in 2025, 64 of them in Chatsworth–Porter Ranch. Every one carried a license number. Ask who holds yours.
Measuring an old Valley kitchen comes before ordering
The median San Fernando Valley home was built in 1968, and 52.9% of the housing here went up before 1970. Those walls are rarely square. A run measured at the counter line can come up short at the ceiling, and once the order has shipped, the fix is a filler strip you’ll notice forever. So the tape measure comes out in your kitchen, not over a floor plan. Nothing gets guessed. We check each wall at three heights, find the high point of the floor, and locate the actual drain — which in a 1960s house is often nowhere near where the drawing puts it. Old stock costs more to own: homes built before 1980 see 24% higher improvement spending than homes built after 2010, per Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Every layout hides its problem in a different place
U-shaped and L-shaped kitchens live or die at the inside corner, where two doors want the same air and a corner unit either fits or doesn’t. Galleys are about the aisle. Measure it before you commit to a dishwasher facing an oven, because both doors swing down into the same narrow strip of floor and somebody has to stand there. One-wall kitchens are the cheapest to plumb and the hardest to store in. That’s the trade. Islands are the decision that costs money later — putting a sink in one means cutting a slab, and that belongs at the design table, not on install day. We build all five.
Bathrooms and laundry rooms fight water, not space
Different room, different enemy. A vanity sits a few feet from a shower and takes steam every morning, while a laundry base cabinet lives beside a machine that vibrates and occasionally leaks onto the toe kick. Box construction matters more in these rooms than door style does. Vanities and laundry cabinetry get built from the same solid wood as the kitchens, boxes included. Particle board swells. Once it swells the door never hangs straight again, and no amount of paint hides it — which is why a bathroom is the room where cheap cabinetry shows its age first, usually inside three years. Seal the countertop. Back the sink cutout properly, and check the supply valves while the wall is still open.
The install week runs in a fixed order
The long part of a kitchen is waiting on materials. Once they land, most cabinet installations finish inside a week. Day one the old boxes come out and a level line goes on the wall — everything after references that line, not the floor, because floors in settled Valley houses are not flat. Uppers go up next. Bases follow, shimmed and screwed into one rigid run, and only then does the countertop get templated, so the template matches what is actually in the room rather than what was drawn. The stone goes out for fabrication and comes back to be set. Hardware, toe kick and sink last. That order isn’t negotiable.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do you install the cabinets you sell, or do I hire my own contractor?
We install them. The sale and the installation both run under CA Contractor License #947147 with our own crew, so you aren’t handed a referral list and you don’t pay a contractor’s markup on somebody else’s cabinets.
How long does kitchen cabinet installation take?
Most cabinet installations finish within a week after the materials arrive. Ordering is the slow half, so the clock really starts once measurements and finish selections are locked in.
Who issues the permit for a kitchen remodel in the San Fernando Valley?
It depends on the address. LADBS covers nearly all of the Valley, while San Fernando, Burbank, Glendale, Calabasas and Hidden Hills issue their own. Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks each run a separate building department.
Can you install cabinets in an older home with uneven walls and floors?
That is most of what we do here. Out-of-square walls and settled floors get handled with scribing, shims and a level reference line, which is why the measuring happens in person first.
Do you install countertops too, or does a stone company come out?
Our crew templates and installs them — quartz, granite, marble and butcher block. Templating happens after the base cabinets are set, so seams and overhangs match the cabinets as built.
Visit the Showroom or Book a Free Consultation
See the cabinets and countertop samples in person at 21417 Devonshire Street in Chatsworth, at Devonshire and Canoga in the Ralphs plaza. Open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring a sketch or a few photos of the kitchen, and we’ll talk through layout, materials and what the install would look like in your house. The in-home measure is free.
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