05/07/2026
The sink had three basins and was six feet long. How do you plan a kitchen around that?
She runs a small commercial kitchen. The space was roughly 12 by 12. Three doors, a single 5' window, and barely enough wall space to work with — layout options were nearly gone before a single cabinet was chosen. She had a general sense of what she wanted. She just had no reference point for what it would actually cost, or whether what she was imagining was even realistic in the space she had.
Many contractors in this space would have handed her a number and asked her to trust it. She'd have had no way to evaluate it, no way to compare it, and no real sense of what she was actually agreeing to.
So before she spent a dollar, we figured it out with her.
She got a full kitchen design — 3D render and complete cabinet plan, every dimension accounted for in the actual space.
She got a line-by-line scope of work with clickable product links for every material referenced.
And instead of one number, she got three clear options. A sub-$10,000 retrofit focused purely on the sink and immediate needs. A fully costed estimate at $29,274 that, if selected, is unlikely to change. And a broader range of $26,000–$32,000 depending on optional selections like quartz counters and finish trim panels. The goal was function — it didn't make sense to throw design accent dollars at a back kitchen. But if she wanted them, she knew exactly what they'd cost.
She didn't need a contractor with answers. She needed one who started with questions.
