Kitchen Remodeling in Woodstock, GA

Kitchen Remodeling for Woodstock homes

The core of the stock is the Towne Lake build-out that began in the late 1980s: Eagle Watch, developed by Arvida around an Arnold Palmer golf course and filled in through the early 1990s, then Towne Lake Hills around the Arthur Hills course that opened in 1994, with Wyngate, Rose Creek and the rest following. These are mostly two-story traditional houses, often brick or stone on the front with lap siding on the sides and rear, set on rolling, wooded ground that drains toward Noonday Creek and the Little River arm of the lake. That grade is why so many have full or partial basements, some daylight or walkout, a lot of them still unfinished, and why tall rear decks are common. Downtown is the other end of the range: the Dean House from 1875, the 1894 Century House and early-1900s frame houses along streets like Rope Mill Road, now ringed by the townhomes and small-lot houses of the newer downtown build-out. The old houses mean wood clapboard, plaster and old paint layers; the new ones mean early repaints and finish upgrades.

Areas we work in Woodstock

• Downtown Woodstock
• Towne Lake
• Eagle Watch
• Towne Lake Hills
• Wyngate
• Rose Creek

Near Elm Street Cultural Arts Village (Woodstock Arts), Olde Rope Mill Park, Dupree Park and across the rest of Woodstock.

Kitchen Remodeling on Woodstock houses

The typical Woodstock kitchen remodel is a Towne Lake kitchen on its first real update: a 1990s layout with an island or peninsula, a breakfast nook and a wall closing the kitchen off from a formal dining room. Owners usually want that wall opened, the nook folded into a larger island, and better light over the work areas. Because so many of these houses sit over basements, the floor framing can be reached from below, which makes moving a sink line or adding circuits more practical than it would be on slab. Downtown is a different job: the older houses have small kitchens with plaster walls and framing that has been altered over a century, and the new townhomes have open kitchens that mostly need finish upgrades.

What usually gets missed

The dining-room wall is the usual question. In a two-story Towne Lake house it often carries the floor above, and sometimes a duct or a drain from the upstairs bath runs down through it. We look from the basement and the attic, and open a section, before promising an open plan. The other thing we check is the subfloor at the sink and dishwasher, where slow leaks over thirty years soften the plywood without showing on the finished floor.