06 / Southwest Metro / Arapahoe, Jefferson and Douglas Counties
Littleton custom cabinets are mostly a space problem. Cabinets911 plans, builds and installs them for the galley and L-shaped kitchens in the city's postwar and 1960s ranches. Those rooms weren't drawn for a dishwasher, a microwave and a full-depth refrigerator at once. We fit them in without moving half the house.
Littleton grew fast after the Glenn L. Martin Company started building its missile plant near Waterton Canyon in 1956, and subdivisions followed to house the workers. Plenty of those ranches still have kitchens close to the size their builders gave them. Downtown is older. The Main Street historic district dates from 1890, the year the town incorporated, and the older houses within walking distance of it bring plaster walls, settled floors and very few square corners.
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In a galley or a tight L, every inch of wall is spoken for before you start. The sink sits under the window, the range sits where the gas line was run, and the refrigerator goes wherever is left. We measure the real distances between those fixed points, then decide what can move. Shifting a range a few feet is often cheap. Moving a sink across the room usually isn't.
Galley aisles get crowded fast. If two people cook, the aisle and the dishwasher door decide whether they can pass, so we draw door swings on the plan. Our kitchen layout guide covers clearances in more detail. The moves below earn their space in rooms this size:
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Opening a small ranch kitchen to the dining room is the obvious idea. Sometimes it's right. In a lot of these houses, though, that wall is the only place for upper cabinets, and taking it out trades storage for sightlines. The storage has to land somewhere.
If the kitchen is a closed L, leave the wall and spend on the inside of the cabinets. A real blind-corner pull-out, drawers in place of doors and uppers to the ceiling can add more usable storage than a peninsula that eats floor.
A peninsula off the end of an L picks up base cabinets and a seating edge without the clearance an island needs. In most small ranches, an island doesn't fit with a workable aisle on all four sides. A peninsula does. Check the wall's contents first: a vent stack or a heat run changes the plan, and a bearing wall needs an engineer.
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The houses near Main Street are a different job. Plaster walls bow, floors slope toward the middle of the house, and a cabinet set against a long wall can show a gap at one end you could slide a pencil into. We scribe end panels and fillers to the wall instead of shimming the box out into the room. That's most of what careful cabinet installation in an older house comes down to.
Door style matters more here too. A flat slab door looks wrong next to turn-of-the-century trim; a shaker or beaded inset door sits better. Arapaho Hills is the opposite case. That mid-century modern subdivision north of Bowles Avenue is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and slab fronts belong there. Shaker doors don't.
Response units / Littleton
Services for Littleton, Englewood and the unincorporated areas that share a Littleton address.
Most ranch kitchens here need better storage planning before they need more square footage.
Small ranch baths gain a lot from a drawer stack beside the sink and a recessed cabinet above it.
A shallow dining room or hallway built-in takes pressure off a small kitchen.
When the sink base is soft and the layout is cramped, replacing beats refacing.
Scribing to old plaster near Main Street and leveling on floors that have settled for decades.
Storefront fit-outs and remodel contractors working across all three counties.
Routing
IfYour ranch kitchen is a closed L or galley and storage is the complaint
ThenStart with interior fittings and taller uppers. Price that before touching walls.
IfYou want the kitchen open to the dining room
ThenCheck what's in the wall, then plan a peninsula. Islands rarely fit these rooms.
IfYour house is an older one near Main Street
ThenPlan for scribing and fillers, and pick a door that suits the trim.
IfYou live in Ken Caryl, Columbine or Roxborough Park
ThenYour permits likely run through the county, not the City of Littleton. Check before demo.
Coverage / Arapahoe, Jefferson and Douglas Counties
Littleton spans Arapahoe, Jefferson and Douglas counties, and a Littleton mailing address can sit in unincorporated Ken Caryl or Columbine in Jefferson County, or Roxborough Park in Douglas County. We plan visits by side of town: downtown and Englewood to the north, the Columbine and Ken Caryl areas to the west, Roxborough to the southwest.
Call transcript / Littleton
Go up first, then go deep. Uppers that reach the ceiling add a shelf or two per cabinet. Drawers make the back of a base cabinet usable. Then use idle walls: a shallow pantry cabinet holds more than you'd guess. Moving walls comes last because it costs the most.
Sometimes. You gain light and lose the wall that holds your uppers. If it comes out, decide where that storage goes first, usually a peninsula or a tall pantry. Check what's in the wall before committing; plumbing vents and heat runs move the plan, and a load-bearing wall needs a properly sized beam.
Not if the door style and the install suit the house. Shaker or inset doors generally sit well with older trim. The bigger issue is the walls. They're rarely flat, so we scribe panels and fillers to them. A cabinet set dead straight against a crooked wall shows the crooked wall.
Yes. Those areas carry Littleton addresses but sit in unincorporated Jefferson or Douglas County, so check permits with the county. Our work is the same either way. We also cover Centennial to the east. Send photos and a rough sketch through our quote request and say which county you are in.
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Send a floor sketch with the window, sink and range marked. We'll tell you what the room can hold.
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