Kitchen Remodeling in Lafayette, CO

Turning Lafayette Kitchens Into the Heart of Your Home

Why Lafayette Homeowners Choose Christie's

Because Every Lafayette Kitchen
Deserves To Stop Separating You From The People You Love

For more than 25 years, Christie’s has helped Lafayette homeowners reckon with a kitchen that’s been quietly frustrating them for years, the galley layout that keeps the cook walled off from the family, the electrical panel that trips when the oven and dishwasher run at the same time, the load-bearing wall that homeowners assumed was just drywall until demolition day. In Lafayette’s mid-century ranch neighborhoods and Old Town cottages, the remodel isn’t just cosmetic. It’s structural, electrical, and social all at once, and getting the scope right before anything comes down is how a predictable project stays predictable.

At Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling, we know what Lafayette’s three distinct housing eras actually look like from the inside, the load-bearing walls in a Lafayette Villa ranch, the permit review layer that Old Town’s 50-year rule adds, and the finish expectations that come with a home near Indian Peaks. We design around the specific kitchen in front of us, not a formula, so the result feels completely right for the home you already love.

In Business

25+ Years

For more than 25 years, we've helped Lafayette families trade in closed-off, isolating kitchens for open, island-centered spaces built around how your household actually cooks, gathers, and lives.

Our Model

Design/Build

One team moves your Lafayette kitchen from the first load-bearing wall conversation through final inspection, keeping layout, permits, cabinetry, and every trade fully connected.

Where We Work

Lafayette, CO

From Old Town Lafayette and Lafayette Villa to Coal Creek Village and Indian Peaks, we remodel kitchens around the era, neighborhood, layout, and family that make each project its own.

Peace Of Mind

5-Year Warranty

Your Lafayette kitchen is backed well beyond the final walkthrough, so your family can cook, gather, and settle into that space with real confidence for years to come.

What Makes Kitchen Remodeling Different In Lafayette

Every Lafayette Kitchen
Carries A Different Starting Story

Kitchen remodeling in Lafayette means reading the home in front of you before applying any design formula, because a 1970s galley ranch in Lafayette Villa, an Old Town cottage with knob-and-tube electrical, and a builder-grade Indian Peaks kitchen are three completely different starting conversations. The most common trigger we hear is a closed-off layout that’s kept the cook isolated from the family for years, and the fix almost never stays cosmetic once you open the walls. We work through the structural, electrical, and permit realities with you early, including Lafayette’s Historic Preservation Commission rules in Old Town, so the design you commit to is one we can actually deliver.

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Lafayette's Three Housing Eras

Lafayette’s homes span mining-era Old Town cottages, 1970s ranch layouts in neighborhoods like Lafayette Villa, and post-2000 builder-grade builds in Indian Peaks, each one a genuinely different starting condition. The framing, plumbing, electrical, and ceiling heights shift dramatically by decade and neighborhood. Knowing which era you’re walking into shapes every design decision before a single cabinet is chosen.

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Load-Bearing Walls Change Everything

In Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes, the wall between the kitchen and the living area is often doing structural work, meaning opening it up means a real conversation about load-bearing conditions, header framing, and how those changes ripple through the whole project. Surfacing that during design, not mid-demolition, is what keeps your budget honest. That’s the call we work through with you before anything comes down.

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Old Town's Layers Run Deep

Opening a Lafayette ranch or Old Town kitchen can surface an underpowered electrical panel that can’t run a modern range, plumbing sitting exactly where the island needs to land, or framing that predates open-concept living entirely, and in Old Town, even interior demolition on a structure 50 years or older can trigger Historic Preservation Commission review. Catching every one of those conditions during the design phase, before permits are filed with the City of Lafayette Building Division, is what keeps your budget protected, your timeline intact, and your finished kitchen built to hold up for real.

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Lafayette's Three-Era Starting Point

Lafayette homeowners at this stage want a kitchen that feels genuinely current without looking like it was transplanted from a new Indian Peaks build, especially in Old Town and mid-century ranch neighborhoods where the home’s character matters. Your existing layout, the rooms it connects to, and the architectural details already in place all shape what’s possible. Building around those specifics is what makes the finished kitchen feel like it truly belongs.

Lafayette, CO Neighborhoods

Three Eras, Three Starting Points,
One Kitchen Worth Coming Home To

Lafayette’s homes span three genuinely different eras, the mining-era cottages and character bungalows of Old Town, the closed-off galley kitchens tucked inside mid-century ranches in neighborhoods like Lafayette Villa, and the builder-grade suburban builds that filled Indian Peaks, Coal Creek Village, and Beacon Hill after 2000, and each one walks into a remodel from a completely different starting point. Families in the ranch-era homes are almost always working from the same quiet frustration: a galley layout that puts the cook’s back to everyone else, an electrical panel that can’t run a modern range, and a wall they’ve assumed for years was just a wall. Old Town homeowners are navigating something different, original plumbing, old framing, and a real desire to modernize without losing the character that made them want the house in the first place. Every project starts by reading the specific home in front of us and the family that has to live in it.

Old Town Lafayette

A Kitchen That Belongs to the Home It's Always Been

Old Town Lafayette cottages and bungalows carry real character, the kind you don’t want a remodel to erase. But those original kitchens were built for a different era of cooking, closed off from the rest of the house and sized for one person working alone. A remodel here means reading the home carefully: working within cottage-era proportions, respecting period details, and navigating historic overlay considerations before a single wall comes down. The goal is a kitchen that finally functions for the family living there now, while still feeling like it belongs to the house it’s always been.

Blue Heron Estates

A Kitchen as Custom as the Home Around It

In Blue Heron Estates, the homes were designed with real intention, stone, stucco, brick, and floor plans that reflect what upper-end custom construction actually looks like, but even kitchens in $1M homes can fall behind what the family inside them genuinely needs. The finishes may be high-end already, but the layout might still close the cook off from the great room, or the island might not have the seating and prep depth a busy household actually uses. What homeowners here most often want is a kitchen that matches the architectural ambition of the rest of the house, custom cabinetry to the ceiling, surfaces with real visual presence, and a gathering space that feels designed for the family, not just the floor plan. Get those things right, and the kitchen stops being the one room that doesn’t quite live up to everything surrounding it.

Spring Creek

Your Home Is Custom. Your Kitchen Should Be Too.

Spring Creek homes were built with real intention, the architecture is contemporary, the lots are generous, and the finishes read upscale at first glance. But even at this level, the kitchen that came standard was designed around a builder’s package, not around the specific way your family entertains, preps meals, or gathers on a Sunday morning. You notice it in the cabinetry that doesn’t quite reach the ceiling, the island that seats two when you regularly need four, and the lighting that treats every moment the same. Remodeling here means taking a strong foundation and making it fully yours, floor-to-ceiling custom cabinetry, an island scaled to how you actually live, and layered lighting that shifts the whole room when the evening calls for it.

Indian Peaks

A Kitchen That Finally Matches the Home You Chose

Homes in Indian Peaks were built with more square footage and better bones than most of Lafayette’s older stock, but the kitchens still carry that post-2000 builder ceiling, stock cabinetry that looks fine until you actually live with it, countertops that are perfectly adequate and nothing more, and islands that aren’t quite big enough to gather around the way your family actually wants to. Families who’ve planted roots here are often ready for a kitchen that matches the investment they’ve made in the neighborhood itself, custom storage designed around how you actually cook, a properly scaled island with real seating, and finishes that feel chosen rather than assigned. The structure is already there to build something genuinely personal.

White Hawk Ranch

Your Home Deserves a Kitchen That Keeps Up With You

White Hawk Ranch homes were built to an impressive standard right out of the gate, Markel’s finishes are solid, systems are current, and the bones are genuinely good. But even a beautiful kitchen starts to feel generic once your household has lived in it long enough to know exactly what’s missing. Custom cabinetry that goes all the way to the ceiling, a statement island with real seating, countertops with the kind of veining you actually chose rather than accepted, and lighting designed around how you use the space, that’s the difference between a kitchen that came with the house and one that was built around your family. With Flatiron views just outside the window, the interior should feel just as intentional.

Our Lafayette Kitchen Remodeling Process

From First Idea To The Lafayette Kitchen That Finally Fits

Kitchen remodeling in Lafayette, CO starts from three very different places depending on whether you’re in an Old Town cottage, a mid-century ranch, or a post-2000 subdivision, and each one surfaces different surprises once the walls open. Our process keeps design, Lafayette permitting, structural assessment, construction, and communication connected from day one, so every decision reflects your actual home, your budget, and the open kitchen your family is genuinely ready for.

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Initial Consultation

We start by walking your Lafayette kitchen and getting a real picture of what isn’t working, the galley that keeps you turned away from the family, the electrical panel that can’t support a modern range, the wall that may or may not be load-bearing. We look at structural conditions, plumbing runs, electrical capacity, and how your household moves through the space. That early picture shapes every decision that follows.

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Goals & Design Direction

Then we talk about what you actually want your Lafayette kitchen to feel like, the load-bearing wall question finally answered, an island big enough that the family can land on one side while you cook on the other, a space that stops isolating the cook from everyone else in the house. In Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes, that closed galley layout is almost always the center of the conversation. We build the design around a specific, honest picture of how your household lives.

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Detailed Project Planning

Once the direction is clear, we develop your Lafayette kitchen around island placement, custom cabinetry suited to your home’s era and character, countertop and surface selections, appliance integration, layered lighting, and every finish detail coordinated before construction begins. That plan becomes the single roadmap carrying every decision, structural, aesthetic, and functional, cleanly forward.

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Permits & Trade Coordination

Before construction begins, Christie’s submits your Lafayette building permit application, coordinates custom cabinetry lead times, and sequences the trades so nothing stalls mid-project. If your home is in Old Town, that includes accounting for the Historic Preservation Commission review window before scheduling begins. The plan that shaped the design is the same plan guiding every construction decision that follows.

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Construction & Communication

Your kitchen moves through demolition, structural header work if a wall is coming out, plumbing, electrical, drywall, cabinetry, countertops, tile, and final finishes in one coordinated sequence. Whether we’re opening a closed Lafayette Villa galley or upgrading builder-grade finishes in an Indian Peaks home, you stay informed at every phase.

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Final Review & Completion

When construction is finished, we walk through the kitchen with you and go over every detail together. Custom cabinetry, island surfaces, pendant and under-cabinet lighting, plumbing fixtures, and finish selections are all checked against the plan you approved from the very beginning. The goal is a kitchen that feels like it belongs in your Lafayette home, and is completely ready the first night you use it.

Our Lafayette Kitchen Remodeling Process

From First Idea To The Lafayette Kitchen That Finally Fits

Kitchen remodeling in Lafayette, CO starts from three very different places depending on whether you’re in an Old Town cottage, a mid-century ranch, or a post-2000 subdivision, and each one surfaces different surprises once the walls open. Our process keeps design, Lafayette permitting, structural assessment, construction, and communication connected from day one, so every decision reflects your actual home, your budget, and the open kitchen your family is genuinely ready for.

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Initial Consultation

We start by walking your Lafayette kitchen and getting a real picture of what isn’t working, the galley that keeps you turned away from the family, the electrical panel that can’t support a modern range, the wall that may or may not be load-bearing. We look at structural conditions, plumbing runs, electrical capacity, and how your household moves through the space. That early picture shapes every decision that follows.

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Goals & Design Direction

Then we talk about what you actually want your Lafayette kitchen to feel like, the load-bearing wall question finally answered, an island big enough that the family can land on one side while you cook on the other, a space that stops isolating the cook from everyone else in the house. In Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes, that closed galley layout is almost always the center of the conversation. We build the design around a specific, honest picture of how your household lives.

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Detailed Project Planning

Once the direction is clear, we develop your Lafayette kitchen around island placement, custom cabinetry suited to your home’s era and character, countertop and surface selections, appliance integration, layered lighting, and every finish detail coordinated before construction begins. That plan becomes the single roadmap carrying every decision, structural, aesthetic, and functional, cleanly forward.

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Permits & Coordination

Before construction begins, Christie’s submits your Lafayette building permit application, coordinates custom cabinetry lead times, and sequences the trades so nothing stalls mid-project. If your home is in Old Town, that includes accounting for the Historic Preservation Commission review window before scheduling begins. The plan that shaped the design is the same plan guiding every construction decision that follows.

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Construction & Communication

Your kitchen moves through demolition, structural header work if a wall is coming out, plumbing, electrical, drywall, cabinetry, countertops, tile, and final finishes in one coordinated sequence. Whether we’re opening a closed Lafayette Villa galley or upgrading builder-grade finishes in an Indian Peaks home, you stay informed at every phase.

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Final Review & Completion

When construction is finished, we walk through the kitchen with you and go over every detail together. Custom cabinetry, island surfaces, pendant and under-cabinet lighting, plumbing fixtures, and finish selections are all checked against the plan you approved from the very beginning. The goal is a kitchen that feels like it belongs in your Lafayette home, and is completely ready the first night you use it.

What Lafayette Homeowners Want From Their Kitchen Remodel

A Kitchen That
Finally Fits Lafayette

What Lafayette homeowners want from a kitchen remodel almost always traces back to the same pain, a closed-off galley or ranch layout that keeps the cook separated from the family, paired with finishes that were never really chosen and electrical that can’t handle a modern range. Lafayette’s three eras of housing stock, Old Town cottages, mid-century ranches, and post-2000 suburban builds, each start from a different place, and the conversation that builds real trust is the one that identifies exactly which era you’re working with before design begins. The result is an open, island-centered kitchen that fits Lafayette’s character and the way your household actually lives in it.

Cook Joins The Room

Where Lafayette Families Land

Lafayette homeowners want kitchens where the cook is finally part of the room, where removing that load-bearing wall, anchoring the open space with a well-scaled island, and updating electrical that's been underpowered for years makes the whole main floor feel connected. Getting the structural conversation right early is what turns that vision from a wish into a project that finishes on time and on budget.

Light For Every Moment

Light That Shifts The Mood

Your Lafayette kitchen changes personality from morning to evening, and good lighting design is what lets it do that well. Layered under-cabinet task strips, dimmable recessed overhead, and pendants scaled to your island shift the room from focused prep to warm gathering without a second thought. Electrical planning also means circuits land where your household actually reaches, not where a production schedule assumed they would.

Cabinets Built For You

Storage Built Around You

Lafayette homeowners want storage that solves the real problem, not another round of shallow upper cabinets that swallow everything and give little back. Deep drawer bases for pots and pans, tall pull-out pantry columns, built-in appliance zones on the island, and interior cabinet organization designed around your household's actual habits keep counters clear and mornings calmer. That's the kitchen you've been waiting to walk into.

Character Over Builder Choices

Designed For This Old Town

Lafayette homeowners are ready to move past galley-kitchen logic that isolated the cook and finishes that were never really chosen at all. Custom cabinetry, quartz countertops with real veining, coordinated hardware, and tile selected as one cohesive whole replace those defaults with something that is genuinely yours. Every detail should feel like someone designed this kitchen for your specific home, because we do.

Quality That Outlasts Trends

The Kitchen Lafayette Deserves

Lafayette kitchens carry a full household, homework spread across the island after school, two people prepping dinner at once, weekend gatherings that don't give much notice before they arrive. Quartz countertops that resist staining, custom cabinetry built on real plywood boxes, and finishes that wipe clean without losing their look hold up to all of it without feeling tired two years in. That durability is exactly what you're choosing when you move past the builder's version.

What To Consider When Remodeling Your Kitchen In Lafayette

Start Living In Your Lafayette
Kitchen Again

Lafayette’s housing stock spans three distinct eras, and each one comes with its own set of starting conditions, which means the real planning conversation begins long before you choose a countertop. Mid-century ranch homes in neighborhoods like Lafayette Villa often have load-bearing walls exactly where homeowners want an open pass-through, and electrical panels that weren’t built for modern appliances. Old Town Lafayette adds a permit layer that can affect your timeline in ways a less experienced contractor won’t flag until it’s already a problem. Understanding what your specific home is likely to need, structurally, electrically, and logistically, is what turns a Lafayette kitchen remodel into a project that stays predictable from start to finish.

Does your layout actually isolate you from the rest of the house?

In a lot of Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes, the kitchen was designed to be a work room, walls on three sides, a single doorway, and a cook who spends every dinner party facing the backsplash while everyone else is in the living room. It’s worth asking yourself honestly whether that’s still something you’re willing to accept, or whether opening that wall, and the structural conversation that comes with it, would change how your whole family experiences the home.
Kids get older, households shift, and the way you use the kitchen this year is probably not the way you’ll use it in 2030. If your kids are young now, think about what counter height, island seating, and homework zones look like as they grow. If you’re empty-nesters on the horizon, think about whether the layout you’re planning still serves two people who cook together rather than around each other. A kitchen remodel is a long investment, it’s worth thinking past the immediate frustration and into the next chapter.
There’s a meaningful difference between updating the surfaces of a kitchen and actually changing how it functions. New countertops and cabinet doors can look beautiful, but if the layout is still closing you off from the dining room or the island still doesn’t exist, the underlying frustration stays. If you’re in a Lafayette ranch or an Old Town cottage, it’s worth getting honest about whether a finish refresh will satisfy you in two years, or whether the wall between your kitchen and your living space is the real thing that needs to come down.
Every era of Lafayette’s housing stock has its own version of the unexpected. Mid-century ranch homes often have electrical panels that can’t support a modern range without an upgrade. Old Town cottages can carry knob-and-tube wiring or walls that behave very differently than they look from the outside. Even post-2000 builds in Indian Peaks have their surprises once demo begins. Before you fall in love with a design plan, it’s worth asking a contractor who knows Lafayette’s specific housing eras what your home is likely to reveal, because the honest scope conversation upfront is what keeps the project on track.

Our Reviews

What Lafayette Kitchens Feel Like
When They Finally Open Up

Choosing a kitchen remodeling team in Lafayette means trusting someone with a room that shapes how your whole household moves through the day. Our team brings honest pre-demolition scoping, Lafayette permitting know-how, and steady communication to every phase, from the first layout conversation through the final walkthrough. Our reviews reflect the care and transparency Christie’s carries into every Lafayette home.

Areas We Service Across Lafayette

Kitchens That Finally Open Up
Lafayette Family Life

Across Lafayette, homeowners are sitting with kitchens that haven’t kept pace with the households living in them, from mid-century ranch homes in Lafayette Villa where a galley layout still separates the cook from everyone else, to Old Town cottages where character matters but so does actually having counter space, to newer builds in Indian Peaks and Coal Creek Village where builder-grade finishes have quietly worn past what the family deserves. Every era of Lafayette home presents a genuinely different starting point, and that’s exactly where Christie’s starts, understanding what your specific walls, your specific layout, and your specific family actually need before a single decision gets made. We carry the whole process with you, from layout design and custom cabinetry through City of Lafayette permitting and construction, right here in Lafayette.

Other Areas We Service

Broomfield County

Lafayette Kitchen Remodeling Frequently Asked Questions

Honest Answers Behind
A Lafayette Kitchen You'll Love

Kitchen remodeling in Lafayette moves differently depending on which era of home you’re starting from, an Old Town cottage, a 1970s ranch in Lafayette Villa, or a post-2000 build in Indian Peaks each carries its own structural realities, permit considerations, and design brief. The questions that matter most go far beyond finish selections: they touch load-bearing walls, electrical capacity, Lafayette’s 50-year demolition review, and cabinet lead times that drive your whole schedule. These are the questions Lafayette homeowners most often bring to Christie’s before trusting us with the room their whole family depends on.

Still Have Questions?
We're Here To Help.

Is the wall between my kitchen and living room load-bearing, and can it come down?

That’s honestly one of the first things we figure out together, because it shapes everything else. In Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes, the 1960s and 1970s builds you find throughout Lafayette Villa and similar neighborhoods, it’s very common for that wall to be structural. You can’t know for certain until we open things up and look at the framing, which is why we scope carefully before demolition begins. When it is load-bearing, we bring in a structural engineer to design the beam and post solution that makes the opening safe and permanent. It adds scope, but it’s the honest path, and it’s how you get the open, island-centered kitchen you’re actually after.
Active construction on a full-scope kitchen remodel in Lafayette typically runs six to ten weeks, depending on the complexity of the layout changes, whether structural work is involved, and how quickly inspections are scheduled. That said, the overall calendar from design through move-in is longer, design development, material selections, custom cabinetry lead times, and permitting all happen before a single wall opens. We walk you through the full timeline at the start so you’re not caught off guard mid-project. Families with young kids especially appreciate knowing exactly when the kitchen goes dark, and roughly when dinner comes home again.
If your project involves structural changes, new or relocated electrical, plumbing, or gas work, yes, you’ll need a building permit from the City of Lafayette Building Division. For most full-scope kitchen remodels, that’s the case. Lafayette processes residential remodel permits electronically, and the typical review window runs about two to three weeks. We handle the permitting process for you, application, coordination, scheduling inspections, so that timeline gets built into your project schedule from the beginning, not discovered as a surprise after design is done.
It can, and this is something we take seriously. Old Town Lafayette falls under the Old Town Neighborhood Overlay District, and Lafayette has a 50-year demolition review rule that can trigger Historic Preservation Commission review if older structural elements are being removed. That review can add up to 90 days to your permit timeline, which is significant. The key is knowing this going in, not finding out after you’ve committed to a construction start date. If your home sits in Old Town, we factor the overlay requirements into our pre-design scoping so the schedule reflects reality from day one.
For most premium kitchens in Lafayette, especially in older homes where the ceiling heights are non-standard, the walls aren’t perfectly square, or the layout is genuinely irregular, custom cabinetry almost always wins. Semi-custom gives you more options than stock, but it’s still working within preset box sizes. Custom means every cabinet is built to your exact space, your ceiling height, your storage habits, and your design vision. For the homes where you’re investing in a full gut renovation and a layout reconfiguration, putting semi-custom cabinetry in at the end is the one place people most often wish they’d gone further. We’ll be honest with you about where the line is for your specific kitchen.
Quite possibly, yes, and it’s one of the most common surprises in Lafayette’s mid-century ranch homes. A 1970s panel that hasn’t been touched simply wasn’t sized for a modern kitchen: induction ranges, built-in refrigerators, and dishwashers all draw more amperage than the appliance packages those homes were designed around. We assess electrical capacity during our pre-construction scoping, so you know before demolition whether a panel upgrade is part of the project. It’s not the most glamorous line item, but it’s the one that makes everything else actually work the way it’s supposed to.
The starting condition is completely different, and that changes the whole project. In a 1970s ranch, the work is structural and infrastructural as much as it is aesthetic, you’re dealing with a closed-off layout, potentially load-bearing walls, older plumbing and electrical, and a kitchen that was designed for a different way of living. In a newer Indian Peaks home, the bones are solid and the layout is more open, but the finishes are builder-grade: stock cabinetry, basic countertops, standard lighting. The remodel there is driven by customization and design intent rather than structural necessity. Both are real projects, they just have very different scoping conversations at the front end.
That’s the design conversation we love, because it’s the right question. Lafayette homeowners, especially in Old Town and the mid-century ranch neighborhoods, are very clear that they don’t want a kitchen that looks like it was lifted from a new construction spec home. The design brief here is about modern function with character that fits the home: period-appropriate cabinet profiles, material choices that reference the home’s era without being costumey, lighting that feels warm rather than clinical. We get into those specifics early, before a single material is selected, because the details that make a kitchen feel like yours are decided in design, not during construction.

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The Lafayette Kitchen
Your Family Finally Cooks Together In

Your Lafayette home still works, it’s that galley kitchen with the wall between you and the living room that doesn’t. For years you’ve cooked with your back to the family, counters maxed out before dinner’s halfway done, wondering what it would feel like to just open it all up. Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling knows Lafayette’s mid-century ranch stock, its permitting process, and exactly what that wall conversation looks like before design ever starts. One team, one clear plan, built for how your family actually lives here.

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Living

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Finishing

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Remodeling

Bathroom
Renovation

Home Additions
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Deck Construction
And Renovations

From The Blog

The Lafayette Kitchen
Your Family Has Been Waiting For

Planning a kitchen remodel in Lafayette means working through questions that go deeper than finishes, whether that wall separating your galley from the living room is load-bearing, how the City of Lafayette’s permitting timeline (and Old Town’s Historic Preservation review, if it applies) fits your schedule, and what’s truly worth changing in a mid-century ranch your family has outgrown. Our blog walks through those decisions honestly, so you move forward feeling clear, prepared, and confident.