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Solid Wood Cabinets In a Variety of Colors & Styles Starting at $8,950
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Most kitchen remodel pages in the San Fernando Valley won’t give you a number. They ask for your email instead. Ours is public: a complete installed kitchen starts at $8,950, and a full Valley kitchen remodel runs anywhere from $9,000 to $100,000 depending on how much of the room you’re actually changing. Kitchen Emporium has sold and installed kitchens out of a Chatsworth showroom for over 25 years, at wholesale pricing, under one contractor’s license — #947147. The spread between those two numbers isn’t mystery or markup. It’s a handful of decisions, and most of them are yours.
Quick Takeaways
- A complete installed kitchen starts at $8,950: 20 linear feet of solid-wood cabinets, a choice of ten quartz countertops, a 6-inch backsplash, and an 18-gauge stainless sink.
- The published Valley range for a full kitchen remodel is $9,000 to $100,000, depending on size and how much you move.
- The national median kitchen remodel was $8,000 from 2021 to 2023 — but that counts partial projects, and California labor runs higher.
- Moving plumbing or gas is the single biggest jump on most quotes. Cabinets and countertops are the predictable part.
What a Valley Kitchen Actually Costs, Starting at $8,950
The floor is $8,950. That buys a complete kitchen, installed: 20 linear feet of solid-wood cabinets, your pick of ten quartz countertops, a 6-inch backsplash, and an 18-gauge stainless sink that comes free with the kitchen. No particle board in it anywhere.
Above that, the price climbs with size and complexity. A galley or one-wall kitchen with a 20-foot run and no island sits near the bottom of the published range. A large U-shaped kitchen with a custom island, upgraded slabs, and appliances in new spots sits far up it. Same trade, different scope.
The National Median Hides What California Pricing Does
The median U.S. kitchen remodel cost $8,000 between 2021 and 2023, according to the 2023 American Housing Survey. Read that carefully. The median American kitchen project costs less than a complete installed kitchen here — because the median project nationally is a countertop swap, a door change, or a new sink, not a full replacement.
Then there’s the housing. The median San Fernando Valley home was built in 1968, and 68.7% of units went up before 1980. Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that homes built before 1980 see 24% higher improvement spending than homes built after 2010 Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Old walls hide things.
Five Things Move Your Number More Than Anything Else
Some choices add a few hundred dollars. These five add thousands.
- Moving plumbing or gas. Relocating a sink or a range means opening walls or slab and bringing in licensed trades. Biggest jump on the sheet.
- Adding an island. An island is cabinetry plus a countertop plus electrical, and if you want a prep sink out there, you’ve just bought yourself the plumbing relocation listed above.
- Changing the layout. Keeping the existing footprint holds the price down. Moving walls does the opposite.
- Slab upgrades. The ten quartz options in the base package are real quartz. Exotic granite, marble, and heavier edge profiles price above them.
- Panel-ready appliances. Custom panels for the fridge and dishwasher look terrific and cost real money.
Some Upgrades Earn Their Money and Some Don't
Spend on the boxes. Cabinet construction is the one thing you can’t upgrade later without tearing the kitchen out again, which is why solid wood beats particle board even when the two doors look identical in a showroom. Soft-close hardware is cheap now and annoying to retrofit later.
Skip the trend finish. Twenty finishes are on offer, and the quiet ones — White Shaker, Dove, Greige — still read well in ten years.
Where money actually gets wasted: gutting a layout that works for one that’s marginally better, and hiring separate companies to sell, template, and install. Two invoices means two markups.
An Itemized Quote Comes Before Anything Gets Ordered
Nobody should sign off a kitchen from a ballpark. It runs the same way every time here. You visit the Chatsworth showroom, an installer measures your actual kitchen at a free in-home consultation, and you get a design rendering with an itemized quote before a single cabinet is ordered.
Insist on the itemization — from us or from anyone else. Line items let you see what the island costs against what the countertops cost, so you can cut scope instead of cutting quality if the total comes in high.
Timing surprises people. Most cabinet installations finish within a week once the materials arrive. Ordering is the long part.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a kitchen remodel cost in the San Fernando Valley?
Between $9,000 and $100,000, the range we publish. The entry point is a complete kitchen installed for $8,950 — cabinets, quartz, backsplash and sink. Islands, layout changes and longer cabinet runs price separately.
What's the cheapest way to remodel a kitchen without it looking cheap?
Keep the layout. Leave the sink, range and dishwasher where they are, choose from the quartz already in the package, and put the savings into cabinet construction. A well-built kitchen in a standard footprint outlives an ambitious one built from thin materials.
Why is my kitchen quote higher than the national average?
The $8,000 national median counts small partial projects — a countertop, a sink, a set of doors — alongside full replacements. California labor costs more, and Valley homes are old enough that walls, plumbing and wiring often need attention once they’re opened up.
How long does a kitchen remodel take?
Most cabinet installations finish within a week after the materials arrive. The waiting happens before that, while the order is produced and delivered — which is why the design stage is worth doing carefully.
Does the $8,950 price include installation?
Yes. It’s an installed price, not a materials price. Kitchen Emporium sells and installs under one California contractor’s license, #947147, with its own crews — so cabinets, countertops and labor land on one invoice.
Visit the Showroom or Book a Free Consultation
The showroom sits 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 photo of your kitchen and rough measurements. You’ll leave with a real sense of where your number lands. The in-home consultation and itemized quote cost nothing.