Homeowners usually ask "how many weeks of construction," but the honest timeline starts earlier and includes waiting on materials. Here's the whole arc for a typical project.
Consultation, showroom selections, layout, and an itemized number you approve. Simple counter-and-backsplash projects are on the short end; a full kitchen with custom cabinetry and moved walls is on the long end. Nothing gets ordered until you sign off.
This is the part outside anyone's control. Stock cabinetry can arrive in 2–3 weeks; semi-custom runs 6–10; full custom longer. Appliances, specialty tile and European fixtures have their own calendars. We order early and build the schedule around the longest pole, not the shortest.
Once cabinets are set (or existing cabinets confirmed), we laser-template the counters. Fabrication then takes about a week.
The one-to-two-week "dead zone" after cabinets go in — while counters are being fabricated — is normal and built into every schedule. It's not a delay.
Plan on roughly three to four months from first consult to a finished kitchen, most of it spent before demo. The construction weeks are the visible part; the schedule is won or lost in selections and ordering.
Working backward from a date? Tell us your target in a consult and we'll tell you when design needs to start.
Tell us the room, a rough budget range and when you'd like to start. We'll come back with next steps and a realistic timeline — no pressure, no mystery pricing.
