Kitchen Remodeling in Longmont, CO

Turning Longmont Kitchens Into Open Spaces Worth Gathering In

Why Longmont Homeowners Choose Christie's

Because Every Longmont Kitchen
Deserves To Break Out Of The Ranch It Was Born In

For more than 25 years, Christie’s has helped Longmont homeowners do something about the ranch kitchen they’ve been working around for decades, the one walled off from the living room, dark under a single fluorescent box, with tile counters that have seen better days and cabinet boxes that are one generation past their useful life. You bought this home before the run-up, you’ve built real equity here, and you’re not going anywhere. That means this kitchen needs to be done once, done right, and built to last, not patched together and revisited in ten years.

At Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling, we understand the specific decision Longmont homeowners are weighing: opening that wall between the kitchen and dining room, getting the island placement right before anything comes down, and resolving cabinet and appliance choices in the design phase, not mid-demolition. Whether your home is in the older central grid, near McIntosh Lake, or on the western residential edge, we build kitchens around the home you have and the life you’re actually living in it.

In Business

25+ Years

For more than 25 years, we've helped Longmont families turn closed-off, cave-dark ranch kitchens into open, island-anchored spaces built for the way real households actually live.

Our Model

Design/Build

One team takes your Longmont kitchen from the first wall-removal conversation through final Building Inspection sign-off, keeping design, permits, cabinetry, and trades connected throughout.

Where We Work

Longmont, CO

From Longmont's older central neighborhoods and the West Side Historic District to McIntosh Lake and the eastern subdivisions, we remodel kitchens around the home, layout, and family in front of us.

Peace Of Mind

5-Year Warranty

Your Longmont kitchen is backed well beyond the final walkthrough, giving your family lasting confidence in the space where you'll cook, gather, and settle in for years ahead.

What Makes Kitchen Remodeling Different In Longmont

Every Longmont Kitchen
Has Its Own Honest Starting Point

Kitchen remodeling in Longmont almost always starts from a specific, familiar condition, a 1960s or 1970s ranch kitchen that was built as a closed-off work room, with a galley or U-shaped layout that puts your back to the family and a wall between you and everyone else in the house. That condition is what pushes a surface refresh into a full structural renovation, and it’s where we want to have an honest conversation with you early, before cabinet selections, before demolition, before anything is committed to paper. We work through the wall-removal reality, the permit path through Longmont Building Inspection, and every material and layout decision together, so the kitchen you end up with is one your household will still feel right in twenty years from now.

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Longmont's Ranch-Home Starting Conditions

Longmont’s central neighborhoods are filled with 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ranch homes, original layouts, original plumbing, and framing decisions made decades before open-concept kitchens existed. Ceiling heights, pipe locations, and load-bearing walls vary significantly from block to block. What’s already in your walls shapes what’s genuinely possible before any cabinet or countertop conversation begins.

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When The Wall Has To Go

In Longmont’s mid-century ranch homes, the wall between the kitchen and living area is often carrying structural load, and opening it up means a real conversation about header work, framing changes, and every trade that follows. That conversation belongs in the design phase, not mid-demolition. Getting there early is what keeps your budget honest and your timeline intact.

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Ranch Walls Carry Real Weight

When you open the walls of a Longmont ranch kitchen, you can find electrical that was never sized for a modern appliance load, plumbing sitting exactly where the island needs to land, or framing that predates open-concept living entirely, and catching every one of those conditions during design, before permits are filed through the City of Longmont Building Inspection division, is what keeps your budget protected, your construction moving, and your finished kitchen built to hold up for real.

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Longmont's Ranch-Era Starting Point

Longmont homeowners at this stage want a kitchen that finally opens up, where the cook faces the family, the island anchors the room, and the space connects to the rest of the house instead of hiding from it. Your home’s existing proportions, the rooms on either side of that wall, and how your family actually moves through the space all shape what’s possible. Building around those specifics is what makes the finished kitchen feel like it belonged there all along.

Longmont, CO Neighborhoods

Equity Finally Spent
On the Kitchen You Deserve

Longmont’s neighborhoods run from the Edwardian bungalows and Victorian-era homes of the West Side Historic District, where original plumbing, old framing, and architectural review all shape what’s possible, through the deep pool of mid-century ranch homes across the older residential grid, where galley kitchens walled off from the living area have been quietly frustrating the same families for decades. Those ranch homes are where the most common story lives: tile countertops with cracked grout, fluorescent box fixtures that leave the prep surface genuinely dark, and a layout that was never designed for two people cooking together, let alone a household gathering around it. Newer subdivisions on the eastern and northern edges bring their own starting conditions, builder-grade finishes that have aged out and floor plans that never quite matched how the family actually uses the space. Every project starts by walking your specific kitchen and understanding the home, the neighborhood, and the people who have to live in it.

Clover Creek

A Kitchen Built Around the Family Using It

Clover Creek homes were built for families, and the kitchens in these two-story layouts often reflect that, functional enough at first, but squeezed once the household grows and everyone wants to be in the same room. You’re working with a footprint that wasn’t designed for an island, storage that can’t keep pace with real family cooking, and an HOA process that adds a planning step before any structural change gets started. A remodel here means getting the design right before anything is ordered, so the island works for homework and meal prep, the layout opens toward where your family actually gathers, and every finish clears architectural review without a single mid-project scramble.

McIntosh Lake

Open to the Lake, Open to Each Other

McIntosh Lake homes sit at a price point that reflects what this neighborhood offers, the water, the views, the setting, but the kitchens inside many of these homes are still closed off from the living area in ways that cut against the whole reason families chose to be here. You bought a home that faces something beautiful, and the kitchen shouldn’t make you feel walled away from it. What homeowners here most often want is a layout opened toward the living space, an island with real seating and prep depth, and custom storage that finally clears the countertops. Get those things right, and the kitchen becomes the natural gathering point for a home that already has everything going for it outside.

Prospect New Town

Designed for Everyone. Now Design It for You.

Prospect New Town was built with genuine intention, the architecture is thoughtful, the streetscape is walkable, and the mixed typologies give the whole neighborhood a character most Longmont developments simply don’t have. But even here, the kitchen that came with your townhome, rowhouse, or detached home was chosen for a price point and a floor plan, not for the specific way your household cooks and gathers. You feel it in the storage that never quite fits your rhythm, the island that works for two but not for the whole table, and the finishes that look fine but feel like someone else’s choices. Remodeling in Prospect means taking a home already worth investing in and making the kitchen as deliberate as everything else around it.

Terry Lake

A Kitchen as Rooted Here as You Are

Homes in Terry Lake’s ranch core were built in an era when kitchens were meant to be functional, not social, closed off, compact, and never designed with a second cook or a gathering island in mind. Families who’ve owned here for years often have the equity and the patience to fix that once, correctly: opening the layout toward the living area, replacing cabinet boxes that have outlived two owners, and adding an island that actually anchors the space. The vintage bones here are solid enough to support a full transformation without rebuilding what doesn’t need rebuilding. The result is a kitchen that finally reflects the life your household has built inside these walls.

Somerset Meadows

A Kitchen That Finally Feels Custom, Because It Is

Somerset Meadows homes already come with a strong foundation, contemporary layouts, energy-efficient systems, and finishes that were genuinely elevated at move-in. But even a well-built kitchen starts to feel like it belongs to the builder once your family has lived in it long enough to know exactly what you’d do differently. Custom cabinetry designed around how you actually cook, a statement island with quartz or quartzite that you chose yourself, and a layered lighting plan that actually illuminates prep surfaces, that’s the gap between a kitchen that came with the house and one built around your household. With HOA design review as part of the process, having one team carry the project from concept through community approval through final inspection keeps everything coordinated and nothing left to chance.

Our Longmont Kitchen Remodeling Process

From First Idea To The Longmont Kitchen Your Ranch Always Deserved

Kitchen remodeling in Longmont, CO surfaces different challenges depending on whether you’re in a 1960s central-neighborhood ranch with its original closed layout or a newer home that’s had one surface-level refresh and needs more. Our process keeps design, City of Longmont permitting, structural planning, construction, and communication connected from day one, so every decision reflects your actual home, your budget, and the open kitchen your family is ready for.

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Initial Consultation

We start by walking your Longmont kitchen and getting an honest picture of what isn’t working, the galley that keeps you turned away from the family, the fluorescent box overhead leaving your prep surface completely in the dark, the cabinets that are one generation past their useful life. We look at structural conditions, plumbing locations, electrical capacity, and how your household moves through the room. That early picture shapes every decision that follows.

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Goals & Design Direction

Then we talk about what you want this kitchen to actually feel like, the wall gone between you and the living room, a real island where the family can pull up a stool while you cook, prep surfaces that finally have enough light. In Longmont’s older ranch homes, that closed-off galley is almost always the heart of the conversation. Every design decision grows from that specific, honest picture of how your household lives.

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Detailed Project Planning

Once the direction is clear, we develop your Longmont kitchen around island placement, custom cabinetry built to hold up for decades, countertop and surface selections, appliance integration, layered lighting, and every finish detail resolved before anything is ordered. That plan becomes the single roadmap carrying every structural, aesthetic, and functional decision cleanly into construction.

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Permits & Trade Coordination

Before construction begins, Christie’s coordinates City of Longmont building permits, custom cabinet lead times, material scheduling, and trade sequencing, all managed together from the start. For wall-removal projects, that includes lining up the structural and plumbing permits before a single trade is scheduled. The same plan that shaped the design guides 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 1960s Longmont ranch or reconfiguring a central-neighborhood layout around a new island, 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 that was set before demolition started. The goal is a kitchen that feels like it belongs in your Longmont ranch, and is completely ready the first night you use it.

Our Longmont Kitchen Remodeling Process

From First Idea To The Longmont Kitchen Your Ranch Always Deserved

Kitchen remodeling in Longmont, CO surfaces different challenges depending on whether you’re in a 1960s central-neighborhood ranch with its original closed layout or a newer home that’s had one surface-level refresh and needs more. Our process keeps design, City of Longmont permitting, structural planning, construction, and communication connected from day one, so every decision reflects your actual home, your budget, and the open kitchen your family is ready for.

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Initial Consultation

We start by walking your Longmont kitchen and getting an honest picture of what isn’t working, the galley that keeps you turned away from the family, the fluorescent box overhead leaving your prep surface completely in the dark, the cabinets that are one generation past their useful life. We look at structural conditions, plumbing locations, electrical capacity, and how your household moves through the room. That early picture shapes every decision that follows.

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Goals & Design Direction

Then we talk about what you want this kitchen to actually feel like, the wall gone between you and the living room, a real island where the family can pull up a stool while you cook, prep surfaces that finally have enough light. In Longmont’s older ranch homes, that closed-off galley is almost always the heart of the conversation. Every design decision grows from that specific, honest picture of how your household lives.

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Detailed Project Planning

Once the direction is clear, we develop your Longmont kitchen around island placement, custom cabinetry built to hold up for decades, countertop and surface selections, appliance integration, layered lighting, and every finish detail resolved before anything is ordered. That plan becomes the single roadmap carrying every structural, aesthetic, and functional decision cleanly into construction.

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Permits & Coordination

Before construction begins, Christie’s coordinates City of Longmont building permits, custom cabinet lead times, material scheduling, and trade sequencing, all managed together from the start. For wall-removal projects, that includes lining up the structural and plumbing permits before a single trade is scheduled. The same plan that shaped the design guides 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 1960s Longmont ranch or reconfiguring a central-neighborhood layout around a new island, 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 that was set before demolition started. The goal is a kitchen that feels like it belongs in your Longmont ranch, and is completely ready the first night you use it.

What Longmont Homeowners Want From Their Kitchen Remodel

A Kitchen That
Finally Opens Up

What Longmont homeowners want from a kitchen remodel almost always starts with that wall, the one closing the kitchen off from the living area in a 1960s or 1970s ranch that was built long before open-concept was even a conversation. These homes share a near-identical starting condition: galley or U-shaped layouts, fluorescent box fixtures leaving prep surfaces dark, and tile or laminate countertops that are well past their useful life. The homeowners inside them have the equity to fix it once, correctly, at a specification level that holds up for decades and tracks Boulder County values without paying Boulder County prices.

Ranch Kitchen, Finally Open

Space That Breathes Again

Longmont homeowners want that closed-off ranch kitchen gone, the wall down, the layout open, and a properly scaled island anchoring the new space where two people can actually cook together while the rest of the family is still in the room. Removing that barrier and reconfiguring the floor plan around how your household really moves through the evening changes the whole feeling of the main floor, not just the kitchen.

No More Cave Kitchen

Out Of The Dark, Finally

That fluorescent box over your Longmont ranch kitchen was never really lighting, it was just a fixture, and every evening it proves it. A layered plan with dimmable recessed ambient, hardwired under-cabinet task strips across every prep surface, and pendants above the island shifts the room from morning coffee to after-dinner conversation without missing a beat. Electrical planning also puts new circuits and outlets exactly where your household reaches for them.

Storage Designed To Last

Systems, Not Just Shelves

Longmont homeowners want storage that actually functions as a system, not another generation of shallow uppers that swallow everything put inside them. Deep drawer bases for pots and pans, floor-to-ceiling pull-out pantry columns, dedicated appliance garages, and island drawer stacks designed around how your household actually cooks keep counters clear and mornings noticeably calmer. That's the kitchen that makes you wonder why you waited so long.

Finishes You Actually Chose

Designed For This Ranch Home

Longmont homeowners are done with the tile countertops they inherited, cracked grout, stained edges, and a look that belongs two decades in the past. Custom cabinetry, quartz or quartzite surfaces, coordinated hardware, and tile chosen as one cohesive whole replace those originals with finishes that are genuinely yours. Every detail should feel like someone designed this kitchen for this specific ranch home, because we do.

Built To Keep For Decades

Built To Stay Here

Longmont kitchens absorb a full household's rhythm, homework spread across the island, two people at the range at the same time, and the kind of weekend gathering that doesn't give much notice before it arrives. Quartz or quartzite surfaces that resist staining, custom cabinetry built on real plywood boxes, and finishes engineered to clean easily hold up to all of it without looking tired two years in. That durability is the whole investment you're making when you finally replace those original tile countertops.

What To Consider When Remodeling Your Kitchen In Longmont

Build The Kitchen Your Longmont
Home Has Always Needed

If you’ve owned your Longmont ranch home long enough to watch the neighborhood change around you, the kitchen is probably the room that’s fallen furthest behind. The closed-off galley layout, the tile countertops with cracked grout, the fluorescent fixture that leaves the whole prep area dim, those aren’t cosmetic problems, and new hardware won’t fix them. Before you land on a cabinet line or a countertop material, it’s worth getting honest about which structural moves would actually change how your home feels day in and day out, and what’s likely behind those walls once you open them. That clarity is what turns a Longmont kitchen remodel into an investment that holds up for decades.

Is the closed-off layout the real problem, or is it something you've just gotten used to?

Most Longmont ranch kitchens were built to keep cooking separate from living, and after a decade or two, that isolation starts to feel normal. It’s worth pausing to ask whether the wall between your kitchen and dining room is actually serving you, or whether it’s the single thing making every dinner party and Sunday morning feel more effortful than it should. If you find yourself narrating what’s happening from the kitchen because no one can see you, that’s the answer.
At Longmont’s current median price, trading up isn’t a realistic path for most homeowners who bought before the run-up, which means this kitchen needs to work hard for a long time. That changes the calculus on material choices, cabinet construction quality, and appliance integration. A quartz surface that holds up through two teenagers and a decade of daily cooking is a different investment than one chosen because it looked good in a showroom. Getting honest about your timeline helps every design decision land in the right place.
The island is the thing Longmont homeowners talk about most, and it’s also the decision that touches everything else. Its position determines where plumbing rough-ins go, how traffic flows between the range and the refrigerator, whether two people can cook at once without colliding, and whether the space actually opens up after a wall comes down. Locking in the island location in the design phase, before a single cabinet is ordered, is what keeps the rest of the project from requiring expensive adjustments mid-build.
Opening a Longmont ranch kitchen almost always means removing at least one wall, and that wall has a story. It may be load-bearing. It may carry plumbing or electrical runs that need to be rerouted before framing can close back up. It may require a structural header or beam that adds cost and timeline you’ll want to plan for early. Understanding what your specific home is likely to need structurally isn’t pessimism, it’s what keeps a project you’ve been saving toward from turning into a surprise mid-construction.

Our Reviews

Where Longmont Kitchens Finally
Open Up And Come Alive

Choosing a kitchen remodeling team in Longmont means trusting someone with the room your family returns to every evening, the one you’ve been ready to change for years. Our team brings honest layout planning, Longmont Building Inspection permit coordination, and clear communication from the first design conversation through the final walkthrough. Our reviews reflect the integrity and care Christie’s carries into every Longmont home.

Areas We Service Across Longmont

Kitchens That Give Back
Longmont Families Their Home

Across Longmont, homeowners in 1960s and 1970s ranch homes are reaching the same moment, the closed-off kitchen that made sense when the house was built has stopped making sense for the family living in it now, and the equity to finally do something about it is sitting right there waiting. From West Side Historic District bungalows where original galley layouts still wall the cook off from everyone else, to ranch homes near McIntosh Lake and Quail Estates where fluorescent fixtures and tile counters are long past their useful life, every starting point here is genuinely different, and that’s exactly where Christie’s begins. We carry the whole process with you, from layout design and custom cabinetry through City of Longmont permitting and construction, right here in Longmont.

Other Areas We Service

Broomfield County

Longmont Kitchen Remodeling Frequently Asked Questions

Real Answers Behind
A Longmont Kitchen Worth Coming Home To

Kitchen remodeling in Longmont gets specific fast, especially in the 1960s and 1970s ranch homes where the kitchen was walled off from everything, the infrastructure behind those walls hasn’t been touched in decades, and a surface refresh would barely scratch what the house actually needs. The real questions involve load-bearing walls, City of Longmont permit requirements, cabinetry lead times that drive your entire construction schedule, and material choices built to last in a home you’re committed to keeping. These are the questions Longmont homeowners most often bring to Christie’s before trusting us with the room their whole family depends on.

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We're Here To Help.

What does removing a wall between the kitchen and living area actually involve in Longmont?

It’s the most-requested change we hear from Longmont ranch homeowners, and for good reason. That wall between your kitchen and living or dining room is what keeps the cook isolated from everyone else, and tearing it out is what transforms the whole house. Practically, it means determining whether the wall is load-bearing (which most are in 1950s–1970s ranch plans), engineering the right header or beam to carry the load, pulling a building permit through the City of Longmont Building Inspection division, and then finishing everything, drywall, flooring transitions, paint, trim, so the seam disappears. It’s a meaningful addition to your project scope, but it’s also the single change that tends to make homeowners say they wish they’d done it sooner.
Most full kitchen renovations in Longmont require more than one permit, and yes, it matters. A building permit is required any time you’re removing or modifying a wall. A plumbing permit covers any relocation of water supply or drain lines. An electrical permit applies when you’re adding circuits, relocating outlets, or redesigning the lighting layout. A mechanical permit covers range hood venting to the exterior. Christie’s manages all of that in-house, permit applications, plan review coordination, and inspection scheduling, which means you’re not chasing down city contacts or worrying about what inspection comes next. That’s part of what design-build means in practice.
For a full custom renovation, gut demolition, wall removal, new layout, custom cabinetry, you’re realistically looking at a 2–4 week design and permit phase before construction starts, and then 6–12 weeks of construction. During active demo and rough-in, the kitchen is genuinely out of commission. Most families lean on a microwave, a coffee maker, and a temporary setup in another room for the heart of that window. It’s not comfortable, but it’s finite, and knowing the week-by-week sequence ahead of time makes it manageable. We walk through the construction schedule with you before demolition begins so the timeline isn’t a surprise.
Semi-custom cabinetry gives you a wide range of sizes, finishes, and door styles within a manufacturer’s existing line, you’re working within their system, which is efficient and delivers excellent results for most kitchens. Fully custom means every box is built to your exact dimensions, which matters most in kitchens with unusual wall angles, ceiling soffits, or a layout where the standard increment sizes just don’t fit cleanly. The cost difference is real and significant, it’s one of the largest single variables in any kitchen budget conversation. Where it pays off is in a kitchen where the fit, the interior storage configuration, and the overall design need to be precise. We’ll tell you honestly whether your project needs custom or whether semi-custom gets you there.
Usually yes, but the honest answer depends on your layout. Ranch kitchens from the 1950s–1970s were almost universally galley or U-shaped, which means there’s no island, and adding one typically requires the wall removal that opens the kitchen to the rest of the house. Once that structural work is done, a well-designed island becomes the anchor of the whole remodel, prep surface, seating, homework counter, gathering point. Longmont’s single-family kitchen footprints generally run large enough to support a substantial island, but the sizing and positioning need to work around the work triangle, traffic flow, and appliance locations. That’s exactly what the layout and space planning phase is for.
It’s a real difference, not marketing. Boulder’s permit requirements, local labor market conditions, and the general cost of doing business in Boulder Valley push identical project scopes meaningfully higher than the same work in Longmont. You can get the same premium finishes, custom cabinetry, quartz or quartzite countertops, professional-grade appliances, layered lighting, the same design-build process, and the same level of craftsmanship at a lower total number in Longmont. For homeowners who are tracking Boulder County property values and want finishes that hold up in that adjacent market, that relative value is a genuinely honest positioning point. You’re not settling for less. You’re getting the same quality at a better price.
Quartz is the dominant choice at the premium tier, and the reason is durability, not just appearance. It’s non-porous, resists staining, holds up under the kind of heavy daily use an active family puts on a prep surface, and stays consistent in appearance over time in Colorado’s low-humidity climate. Quartzite and natural stone come up frequently among homeowners who want natural variation and a higher-end material story, they’re beautiful and durable, but they do require sealing and a bit more care than quartz. We walk through the trade-offs with you in the design phase so the choice you make is based on how you actually cook, not just how a sample looks in a showroom.
It starts with an in-home consultation and field measurement, we come to your house, see what you’re working with, and listen to what’s been frustrating you about the space. From there, we move into a space planning phase where layout decisions get resolved on paper before any finishes are selected. That sequence matters: island sizing, wall removal, appliance positioning, lighting layout, all of it gets figured out before demolition begins, not discovered mid-project. Cabinetry, countertops, hardware, backsplash, and fixtures are all part of the design scope, not decisions you’re left to source on your own. By the time construction starts, you have a complete specification package. Our team manages permits, all trades, and inspection coordination from start to finish. No pressure to rush the design phase, getting it right there is what protects everything that follows.

Start The Conversation

The Longmont Kitchen
Your Family Has Been Waiting For

That closed-off ranch kitchen has been the one thing your Longmont home can’t shake, the wall that keeps you facing the wrong direction, the galley that barely fits one person, the counters that were never enough. You’ve got the equity and the intention to fix it once, the right way. Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling handles layout design, City of Longmont permitting, and full construction as one connected team, no handoffs, no gaps. One plan, built around how your family actually lives here.

Our Other Remodeling Services

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Living

Basement
Finishing

Whole-Home
Remodeling

Bathroom
Renovation

Home Additions
And ADUs

Deck Construction
And Renovations

From The Blog

A Longmont Kitchen
Where Everyone Wants to Be

Planning a kitchen remodel in Longmont means working through the questions that hit close to home, whether that wall between your ranch kitchen and the living area is load-bearing, how City of Longmont Building Inspection permits for structural, plumbing, and electrical work fit your timeline, and what’s genuinely worth changing in a 1960s or ’70s home you intend to keep. Our blog walks through those decisions honestly, so you move forward feeling clear, prepared, and confident.