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Cabinets911 designs, builds and installs Centennial custom cabinets, and a lot of that work starts at one wall: the one between the kitchen and the family room. Most of the city's houses went up in the 1970s and 1980s as split-levels and two-stories with closed kitchens. We plan the cabinetry for what those rooms become once that wall is gone.
Centennial is a young city with older houses. It incorporated in February 2001 out of unincorporated Arapahoe County, but neighborhoods like Walnut Hills, Willow Creek and Homestead were built a generation earlier. That gap matters. The kitchens are original or one remodel deep, the floor plans are chopped into rooms, and the half-flight stairs of a split-level sit right where everyone wants an island. Cabinet layout here is a structural question before it's a style question.
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Take out the wall and you lose the uppers and base cabinets that hung on it, often the most storage in the room. If that wall also carried the sink or the refrigerator, a drain or an ice line has to move too.
The island is how most people win the storage back. It only works if the numbers work. We want enough aisle for two people and an open dishwasher, and we check that before anyone falls in love with a seating count. If the wall was load-bearing, a beam goes in first; that's an engineer's call, and the cabinet drawings wait for it.
The floor under a removed wall rarely matches the floor beside it in height or material. We want that patch finished, or at least planned, before final measurements. An island set on an uneven seam rocks.
The split-level problem is the stair. Many tri-levels put the kitchen a half-flight above the family room, with a railing between them. Opening that up turns the railing into a peninsula or a counter-height ledge. Good idea. But that base needs anchoring into real framing, not a strip of subfloor beside the stair.
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Original cabinets from this era vary a lot. Some have solid face frames and sound boxes. Others are particleboard that has been wet once too often.
Once the wall moves, the old layout is gone anyway, and that makes refacing a weak option. Refacing keeps the boxes where they are. If the boxes are in the wrong place, you're paying for new doors on a floor plan you just tore up. That's when full cabinet replacement makes more sense, even if a few boxes are still sound. Check these before you decide:
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Many of these houses have a lower-level family room with a fireplace, and the walls beside it are the obvious place for built-ins. We scribe the side panels to the brick, since it's never straight. Upstairs, original hall baths often have low vanities that leak at the sink base. Bathroom vanities are a simple upgrade here if the drain height works at a taller counter.
Greenwood Village is a different case. It incorporated in 1950 and grew alongside the Denver Tech Center from the 1970s on. Its homes vary more, and the questions shift toward home offices, wet bars and pantries.
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What we design, build and install in Centennial and Greenwood Village homes.
Most planning here centers on island and peninsula layouts after a wall comes out.
Original hall-bath vanities in these houses tend to sit low and fail at the sink base.
Lower-level family rooms in split-levels have the wall space and need the storage.
When the layout changes, new boxes usually beat refacing old ones.
We level to the floor you actually have, including the seam where a wall used to stand.
Remodel contractors and office break rooms along the I-25 and Arapahoe Road corridors.
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IfYou want the kitchen-to-family-room wall gone
ThenGet the structural answer first. We draw the island once the beam or header is settled.
IfThe layout works and the boxes are dry and solid
ThenRefacing or new doors may be enough. We check the sink base before saying so.
IfA railing separates your split-level kitchen from the family room
ThenLook at a peninsula or counter-height ledge in its place, anchored into the framing.
IfYou're selling within a year or two
ThenFix the sink base and the doors buyers see. Skip the custom pantry.
Coverage / Arapahoe County
The older housing sits mostly in west and central Centennial, with Piney Creek out east near Cherry Creek State Park and Greenwood Village to the north.
Call transcript / Centennial
Often, but the wall's contents decide it. If it was load-bearing, a beam goes in first. If it held a drain or a duct, those get rerouted or the island shifts. We draw the island after those answers, so you aren't paying for a plan the framing won't allow.
Only if you're keeping the layout and the boxes are dry and solid. Refacing only re-skins the boxes you already have. It doesn't fix a swollen sink base, a dead corner or a soffit you want gone. If you're opening the kitchen to the family room, the layout changes anyway, and refacing stops making sense.
Sometimes. Many soffits in houses of this age are just framing and drywall, but some hide ductwork, vent pipes or wiring. Your contractor or HVAC tech confirms what's inside. If it's empty, the uppers can go taller. If it isn't, we size the uppers to the soffit and finish the top with crown so it looks intended.
Send photos, rough sizes and the problem through our quote request form. We schedule a site visit and measure, then draw the layout and confirm materials before talking about timing. The step-by-step process page walks through each stage in order.
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Send photos of the wall, the kitchen and the family room. We'll tell you what the cabinet layout can and can't do once it's gone.
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