Full Kitchen Renovation in Minneapolis

A full kitchen renovation is a gut and rebuild of the room — old cabinets, counters, tile and flooring out, new ones in — and Top Notch Floors runs those projects across Minneapolis. One crew does all of it. You call one number.

That matters more than people expect. On most remodels the homeowner ends up scheduling a cabinet guy, a tile setter, a flooring installer, a countertop shop and a painter, and every gap between them is a week of a dead kitchen. We carry the job straight through. When the counters template on a Tuesday, the tile crew already knows it is starting the following Monday.

The sequence rarely changes. Demo and haul-away first. Then any framing, electrical and plumbing rough-in while the walls are open. Cabinets go in next, because everything after them depends on where they land. Counters get templated only after the boxes are set and leveled. Then backsplash, flooring, trim, paint and the final walkthrough.

Older Minneapolis houses hide things behind the plaster. Knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized supply lines, a former doorway framed over, no insulation in an exterior wall, and rarely a square corner anywhere. We open the walls early so surprises land in week one when there is still schedule to absorb them, not in week five.

Permits come into it when we move plumbing, add circuits, or change framing. Licensed electrical and plumbing work gets pulled in and inspected. Swapping cabinets and counters in the same footprint usually does not need one. We tell you which side of that line your project falls on before you sign anything.

Keeping the existing layout is the cheapest good kitchen you can buy. Moving the sink or the range means new supply, drain and vent runs, and that adds cost and days. Sometimes it is worth it — a wall between a kitchen and a dining room is often the one change that fixes everything. We will be straight with you about what the change actually buys.

On budget, expect the money to go roughly a third to cabinets, then countertops, then appliances, with tile, flooring, lighting and labor filling the rest. A modest refresh in a Minneapolis kitchen tends to run in the mid five figures. Custom cabinetry, stone and a layout change push it well past that.

Plan on four to eight weeks without a working kitchen. Set up a temporary spot with the microwave, the coffee maker and the fridge before we start. Most families stay in the house the whole time.