Marlowe Kitchens

What we take on · Tampa, FL

Kitchen remodels

A kitchen is three jobs wearing one name. A refresh keeps the layout, a replacement keeps the walls, and a gut keeps neither. They are separated by weeks and by tens of thousands, so the first conversation settles which one you are actually having.

Drawing comes before demolition

  1. 01The design visitMeasured and talked through standing in the room, and nothing is ordered on the strength of it.
  2. 02The drawing and the line-by-lineA plan you can read and a price with every line showing, the contingency as a line of its own.
  3. 03Order, then waitCabinets set the calendar, and nothing is demolished until they are in the building.
  4. 04Demolition and rough-inPlumbing, electrical and framing, all signed off before anything is closed up.
  5. 05Set, finish and snagCabinets, counters, splash and trim, then a snag list written by you.

Questions about kitchens

Who draws the kitchen?

Priya, from the design visit, and she signs the weeks on the plan herself.

Can we keep the cabinets and change everything else?

Yes, and where the layout already works it is the best value we sell. It is a job in its own right rather than a discount on a bigger one.

When does the price stop moving?

At the drawing, line by line. What can still move is what turns up inside a wall, and that reaches you as a priced line rather than a revised total.

The weeks and the number, then the work.

An hour in your kitchen, then a drawing, a dated calendar and one figure with every line shown.