Trusted Kitchen Remodeling for Highland Homeowners
A kitchen remodel in Highland typically runs $28,000 to $65,000 for a full renovation, with cabinet refacing and countertop replacement landing between $9,000 and $22,000. The final number depends on cabinet choices, countertop material, whether you move plumbing or gas lines, and the condition of what’s behind the walls. At Sunburst ADU Builders, we handle kitchen remodels as a core part of what we do, not as a side service. Noel Carrasco leads every project with the same discipline we bring to ADU construction: straight numbers, clear scope, and no surprises halfway through. Call (855) 676-6807 to schedule a free estimate at your Highland home.
Highland kitchens deal with hard water, summer heat that tests every finish, and floor plans that were originally built for one cook, not a family. When we plan Kitchen Remodeling in Highland, we account for what actually happens in a Highland kitchen. That means ventilation that keeps up with July and August, surfaces that hold up to mineral-heavy tap water, and layouts that make sense for how you actually use the room, whether it’s weeknight dinners or a full holiday spread.
We’re a full-scope contractor. That means the same team handles demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, cabinetry, counters, tile, and finish work. You don’t stitch together a tile guy, a plumber, and a cabinet installer and hope they communicate. We run the whole job under one contract, one schedule, and one point of contact. If you’re also thinking about an ADU on the same property, we’re the rare contractor who can plan both projects so the site work, utility connections, and permitting move together instead of fighting each other. Check out our home page to see how our ADU and remodeling work fits under the same roof.
Key Takeaways
- Full kitchen remodels in Highland typically cost $28,000 – $65,000 based on materials, layout changes, and the condition of existing plumbing and electrical.
- We’re a full-scope contractor – one team handles demolition through finish work, so you never coordinate three separate trades.
- Every estimate is free and line-itemed – you’ll see exactly where the money goes before you sign.
- We pull permits and schedule inspections for every remodel that requires them, which is most in Highland and San Bernardino County.
- Call (855) 676-6807 and we’ll walk your kitchen with you, answer questions, and give you a written number.
What Our Kitchen Remodeling Service Includes
Full Kitchen Renovation
A full renovation means we take the room down to the studs where it matters and rebuild it as a cohesive space. That includes demolition, framing changes if you want a new layout, rough plumbing and electrical, drywall, cabinets, countertops, appliances, backsplash, flooring, and finish trim. You’d choose this when your kitchen needs more than a facelift: the layout fights you every day, the cabinets are failing, or you want to open the kitchen to the dining room and need a load-bearing wall addressed properly. Sunburst ADU Builders manages the entire sequence from the first hammer swing to the final walkthrough, and since we build ADUs from the ground up, we’re completely comfortable with the structural and permit side of a major remodel.
Cabinet Replacement and Refacing
If your cabinet boxes are solid but the doors and face frames look dated, refacing replaces the visible surfaces and hardware at roughly half the cost of new cabinets. If the boxes themselves are water-damaged, sagging, or built with cheap particleboard that’s swelling at the base, full replacement is the smarter long-term call. We’ll open a few doors and drawer fronts during the estimate to show you what you’re actually working with, because what’s behind the face frame determines which path makes sense. On ADU kitchens, we often install new flat-pack or custom cabinet systems sized for compact spaces, and we bring the same supplier relationships to your primary home.
Countertop Installation
Quartz, granite, quartzite, butcher block, and solid surface each behave differently under daily use in a Highland kitchen, and we’ll help you compare them on price, maintenance, and heat tolerance. A quartz slab handles hard water spots better than most natural stone and doesn’t need sealing, while granite brings a unique pattern but wants a sealer refreshing every year or two. We template, fabricate, and install through local stone yards we’ve worked with long enough to know their tolerances and turnaround times. If you’re planning a kitchen and a bathroom remodel at the same time, we can often buy remnant pieces from one slab run and save you money on both rooms.
Backsplash and Flooring
The right backsplash does two jobs: it protects the drywall behind the range and sink, and it sets the visual tone for the whole kitchen. We install ceramic, porcelain, glass, and natural stone tile, and we handle the tile layout planning so you’re not staring at an awkward sliver cut at the corner. For flooring, luxury vinyl plank has become the default in Highland rentals and ADUs because it handles foot traffic and the occasional appliance leak without warping, but we also install tile and engineered hardwood where the budget and style call for it. If the kitchen floor will tie into adjoining rooms, we’ll plan the transitions so the seams land where they should, not wherever the installer stopped for the day.
Lighting and Electrical Upgrades
Most older Highland kitchens are underlit, with a single ceiling fixture trying to cover a room that needs layered light. We add recessed LED cans on dimmers, under-cabinet task lighting, pendant fixtures over islands, and dedicated circuits for appliances that should have never shared a breaker with the microwave. If your panel is full, we’ll check whether a subpanel or service upgrade makes sense before we start, because the last thing anyone wants is a beautiful new kitchen that trips a breaker when the air fryer and the toaster run at once. This is the phase where remodel budgets get realistic fast, and we’ll flag it during the estimate, not after the drywall is up.
Appliance and Fixture Coordination
We coordinate appliance installs with your cabinet order so the fridge, range, dishwasher, and vent hood fit the openings exactly, including panel-ready units that need a matching cabinet front installed. We also spec and install faucets, sinks, garbage disposals, pot fillers, and water filtration lines, all sized for the cabinets and counters you’ve chosen. For ADU kitchens, where every inch counts, we lean on compact appliance lines and 24-inch ranges that still offer full-size performance. We’ll give you rough opening specs before you order anything online so you don’t end up with an expensive appliance that doesn’t fit the cabinet run you already bought.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees — you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Brands We Service for Kitchen Remodeling
Because Sunburst ADU Builders works across multiple prefab and modular platforms, we see kitchens built by Cover, Dvele, and Mighty Buildings on a regular basis. Each of those manufacturers has a distinct cabinet system, plumbing layout, and electrical approach, and we know how their units are put together well enough to remodel inside them without fighting the structure. If you own a Cover unit and want deeper counters or a different sink configuration, we can plan that around Cover’s panelized walls and utility chases instead of discovering halfway through that a wall isn’t where a traditional stick-built wall would be.
We’ve also remodeled kitchens inside Boxabl units, which have extremely tight dimensional tolerances, and we understand how to work within a folded, pre-finished module without compromising the building envelope. What matters most is that we’re not tied to any single brand. Whether your kitchen sits inside a Dvele ADU, a Mighty Buildings 3D-printed home, a conventional Highland rancher, or a Tuff Shed conversion, we plan the remodel around the actual structure in front of us. If you have a question about a specific manufacturer we haven’t named here, ask us during the estimate. The odds are good we’ve opened one up before.
Signs You Need Kitchen Remodeling Right Now
- Cabinet doors are delaminating or the boxes are swelling. In Highland’s dry climate, the damage usually isn’t humidity, it’s a slow sink or dishwasher leak that’s been wicking into the particleboard for months. Once the box swells, the cabinet is done. Call us before the damage spreads to the drywall behind the cabinet run.
- You have one circuit feeding the microwave, fridge, and counter outlets. That’s a fire hazard waiting for the day you run the toaster and microwave at once. If your breakers trip when you’re just making breakfast, the electrical was never sized for a modern kitchen, and it’s time to address it.
- The countertop is cracked, stained through, or the sink is separating from the deck. A failed countertop can let water into the cabinet base every time you wash dishes, and once the base cabinet rots, you’re replacing cabinets, not just stone. In Highland’s hard-water conditions, we see silicone seals fail faster than homeowners expect.
- Your layout makes cooking a physical obstacle course. If two people can’t open the fridge and the dishwasher at the same time, or the island blocks the path between the sink and the stove, that’s a design problem, not a minor annoyance. A layout change during a remodel costs far less than the years of daily frustration you’re currently paying in patience.
- You’re planning to rent the home or add an ADU. Rental kitchens in Highland and San Bernardino take abuse, and an outdated kitchen drags down both your monthly rate and your time on market. If the unit will be inspected for a rental certificate, outdated plumbing and electrical will need to be addressed anyway.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Process – Step by Step
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Walkthrough and scope definition. Noel Carrasco walks the kitchen with you, asks how you cook, how many people use the room, and what’s frustrating you today. We check the panel, trace the plumbing, and look inside a few cabinet bases so we know what we’re working with before we quote anything.
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Fixed, line-item estimate. You get a written proposal that breaks out demolition, plumbing, electrical, cabinets, counters, tile, flooring, fixtures, and contingency. Not a lump sum that hides the details. We’d rather show you where every dollar goes so you can adjust scope and material choices before signing.
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Permits and product ordering. We pull the permits the job requires, which in Highland often means a building permit for any plumbing or electrical work and a plan review if you’re changing the layout. We order cabinets, counters, and fixtures with lead times built into the schedule so we’re not standing around waiting for a slab to arrive.
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Demolition and rough-in. We protect the rest of the house, seal the work area, and take the kitchen down to where the new work starts. Rough plumbing and electrical go in first, then we call for the rough inspection before anything gets covered. No drywall over un-inspected work, ever.
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Finish work and walkthrough. Cabinets, counters, backsplash, flooring, appliances, and fixtures go in. We walk the room with you, note any punch-list items, and fix them before we call the job done. You have one person to call for everything, from the day we start to the day you’re cooking in the new space.
How Much Does Kitchen Remodeling Cost in Highland?
A full kitchen remodel in Highland generally runs between $28,000 and $65,000 for a standard 150 to 250 square foot kitchen, depending on whether you’re moving plumbing, replacing the electrical, going with custom versus stock cabinets, and choosing mid-range or premium countertops. A cabinet-only replacement typically runs $12,000 to $25,000, while a countertop and backsplash refresh sits between $8,000 and $18,000. Refacing existing cabinets lands around $9,000 to $22,000 depending on how many boxes you have and what finish you choose.
What drives the price up? Moving a sink or range, opening a load-bearing wall, upgrading your panel, leveling a floor that has settled, and choosing natural stone over quartz all add cost. What keeps it down? Keeping the plumbing and electrical where they are, using stock cabinet lines with upgraded hardware, and doing the floors now instead of waiting for a second project. The biggest mistake we see in Highland is homeowners under-budgeting for electrical. Older homes here often need a new circuit or two at minimum, and sometimes a panel upgrade, and that’s not a corner you want to cut.
Every estimate we give is free and line-itemed. You’ll see the cabinet allowance, the counter material, the labor for each trade, and the permit line. If you want to phase the project, we’ll tell you what that looks like in real numbers, not vague ranges, and we’ll show you what’s worth doing now versus later based on your long-term plans for the home.
For a direct comparison, see our Kitchen Remodeling in Highland page, or check Kitchen Remodeling in San Bernardino and Kitchen Remodeling in Redlands to understand how pricing shifts across the Inland Empire.
Kitchen Remodeling Near Highland – Our Service Area
We serve Highland and the surrounding communities including San Bernardino, Redlands, Mentone, Loma Linda, Colton, Running Springs, Muscoy, Lake Arrowhead, Grand Terrace, Crestline, and Rialto. For most kitchen remodels in the Highland area, we can schedule the initial walkthrough within a few days of your call, and we’ll give you a written estimate on the spot or within 48 hours once material pricing is confirmed. If you’re up the hill in Crestline or Lake Arrowhead, let us know when you call and we’ll plan the visit accordingly.
Serving Highland, CA — Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Highland area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage — if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions – Kitchen Remodeling in Highland
Kitchen remodeling is the process of updating or reconfiguring a kitchen’s layout, cabinets, countertops, flooring, lighting, and plumbing or electrical systems. It ranges from a cosmetic refresh, like new counters and a backsplash, to a full gut renovation that changes where the sink, range, and fridge sit. In Highland, most remodels also involve bringing older electrical panels up to code and addressing hard-water wear on fixtures and surfaces.
Most full kitchen remodels in Highland take 6 to 10 weeks from demolition to final walkthrough. Cabinet and counter fabrication lead times, permit review, and the condition of your existing plumbing and electrical all affect the schedule. We’ll give you a written timeline with your estimate, and we’ll update you at each phase so you’re not guessing when the kitchen comes back online. Give us a call at (855) 676-6807 and we’ll break down a realistic schedule for your specific project.
Expect $28,000 to $65,000 for a full remodel, $12,000 to $25,000 for cabinet replacement, and $8,000 to $18,000 for countertops and backsplash. The spread depends on material grades, whether you move plumbing or electrical, and how much structural work the layout change requires. Our estimates are free and line-itemed, so a number you see on paper before you commit is the number you’ll pay unless you change the scope.
Yes, and that’s one of the things that sets us apart. We work with Cover, Dvele, Mighty Buildings, and Boxabl units regularly, and we understand how their cabinets, plumbing chases, and electrical systems are built differently from a conventional stick-built home. Whether your kitchen is in a primary residence or an ADU, we plan the remodel around the actual structure in front of us, not a generic assumption about how houses are built. Call (855) 676-6807 and tell us what kind of structure you have, and we’ll give you a straight answer about what’s possible.
If you have a burst supply line, a leaking sink that’s damaging cabinets, or a major appliance leak, call (855) 676-6807 and we’ll help you stop the damage and assess what needs to happen next. We’re not an emergency plumbing company, but we respond quickly when a kitchen problem is actively damaging your home. For planned remodels, we’ll schedule your walkthrough at a time that works for you, and we’re typically on site within a week of our first conversation.
We stand behind our workmanship and we’ll put the terms in writing in your contract before we start. Materials like cabinetry, countertops, appliances, and fixtures carry their own manufacturer warranties, and we’ll walk you through what’s covered and for how long. If something fails because of our installation, we fix it. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to on every Highland project.
Set up a temporary kitchen in another room with a microwave, a small fridge, and a coffee maker, because your kitchen will be down for several weeks. Empty the cabinets and drawers before demolition day, and plan for dust protection if the rest of the house will stay occupied. We’ll walk you through a prep checklist at the contract signing, and we’ll seal off the work area with plastic and negative air pressure to keep demolition dust from spreading through the house. Call (855) 676-6807 for a free estimate and we’ll start with the walkthrough.
Schedule Your Kitchen Remodeling Service in Highland Today
Call (855) 676-6807 to schedule a free, no-obligation estimate for your Highland kitchen remodel. We’ll walk the space with you, answer your questions straight, and give you a written number before you commit to anything. Whether you’re upgrading a primary kitchen, finishing an ADU, or planning both at once, we’ll help you make the right call for your budget and your lot.
Written by Noel Carrasco, Owner at Sunburst ADU Builders, serving Highland and the Inland Empire.