RG Home Remodeling remodels kitchens and baths across Berkeley and the inner East Bay. These are the rooms you use most and the ones that date an older home the fastest, and they are also the most technical to get right, because they pack plumbing, electrical, tile, cabinetry, and waterproofing into a small footprint. In a bungalow or a flat where the original kitchen was built for a different era, we plan the remodel around how you actually use the room, then build it with the systems and the waterproofing done correctly behind the finishes.
- Layout and cabinetry reworked for how you live
- New tile, counters, and fixtures
- Plumbing and electrical brought to code
- Showers and wet walls waterproofed right
- One design and build team
The layout is what makes a kitchen or bath work
A beautiful kitchen with a bad layout is still a frustrating kitchen, and older Berkeley homes are full of kitchens that were laid out for a galley footprint and a single cook. Before any finish gets chosen, we work out how the room should flow: where the cooking, the prep, the cleanup, and the storage belong, how people move through the space, and how to fit it all into the footprint you have or can borrow. The same goes for a bath, where the placement of the vanity, the shower, and the storage decides how the room feels every single morning.
Sometimes the best move is taking out a wall, relocating a window, or borrowing space from an adjacent pantry or back porch, and because we plan and build together, those structural moves are on the table from the start rather than ruled out because a separate designer never priced them.
We design the layout with you, then confirm it works against the real plumbing and electrical in an old house before we commit to it. A layout that looks great on paper but fights a cast-iron waste stack buried in the floor is a layout that drives up cost, so we settle that early.
What happens behind the tile
Kitchens and baths fail from the inside out when the work behind the finishes is rushed, and in an older home there is more behind the finishes to get right. Waterproofing a shower correctly, venting and routing aging plumbing properly, and replacing knob-and-tube with circuits sized for a modern kitchen are the steps that decide whether the room lasts or leaks. They are also exactly the steps a too-cheap remodel skips, because nobody sees them on opening day.
We do that work to standard. The shower pan and the wet walls are waterproofed correctly, the plumbing is run and vented to code, and the circuits and outlets a modern kitchen or bath needs are added rather than overloaded onto a panel from another decade. It is unglamorous work, and it is what keeps the remodel sound for years.
Because one crew handles the whole room, the cabinetry, the tile, the counters, and the systems are coordinated from the start. Nothing gets wedged in at the end, and the finishes sit on top of work that was done right.
Finishes chosen to fit the home and the budget
The finishes are where your choices swing the cost the most, and where the room takes on its character. Cabinetry, counters, tile, flooring, and fixtures can be specified to a simple, durable level or a high-end personal level, with a real difference in price. We help you choose finishes that fit the design and the budget rather than defaulting to the biggest ticket on the showroom floor.
We also match the new work to the rest of an older home so a remodeled kitchen or bath reads as intentional, not as a single bright new room floating in a house full of original detail. The trim, the hardware, and the palette get chosen with the whole home in mind, so the remodel feels like it belongs.
If you are planning a kitchen or bath remodel in the Berkeley area, call 510-966-0721 for a free consultation and an honest, written plan for the rooms you use most.
The complete project picture
A home is a design-build project, so kitchen & bath remodeling rarely stands alone, it connects to basement conversion, architectural millwork, general contracting, a home addition, a gut renovation, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in South Berkeley, Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Elmwood, Rockridge kitchen & bath remodeling, Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Claremont and everywhere else across the Berkeley area.
If you searched for local remodeling service, you have reached a local home contractor, call 510-966-0721 any time. For background, read How Much Does a Remodel Cost in Berkeley? An Honest Breakdown on our blog, or head back to our Berkeley home page to see everything we do.