Kitchen Remodeling in Plano, TX

Six Design Group takes on kitchen remodeling in Plano, TX from our base in Lake Highlands, roughly 15 miles and 30 minutes south via US-75 or the President George Bush Turnpike. The houses that most often need this kind of work are in east and central Plano, where neighborhoods built from the 1970s through the 1990s, Los Rios among them, still have the kitchens and baths they were sold with: oak cabinets tucked under soffits, tile counters with dark grout, cultured-marble vanity tops. That is a workable start: the layouts are sensible, and most of the budget goes into finishes and function rather than repairs.

Los Rios-Era Construction: Slabs, Soffits and Cultured Marble

A typical east Plano house from this period sits on a concrete slab poured over Blackland Prairie clay, which swells when it is wet and shrinks in a dry August. That has two practical effects. Moving a sink or adding an island prep sink means saw-cutting the slab for a new drain: a plumbing permit and a real line item. And tile laid over that slab needs a crack-isolation membrane and proper movement joints, or hairline cracks show up within a couple of seasons.

Above the cabinets, soffits can hide duct runs, vent pipes or wiring. We open one before promising cabinets that run to the ceiling, and empty soffits come down easily while ones with ducts need rerouting that we price first. Behind the walls, houses built before 1978 fall under the EPA's lead-safe (RRP) rule whenever painted surfaces are disturbed, and some late-1970s to mid-1990s homes have gray polybutylene supply line, worth replacing while walls are open. Winter Storm Uri in February 2021 showed how exposed attic and exterior-wall pipes can be, so rerouted supply lines stay inside conditioned space where the layout allows.

How Kitchen Remodeling in Plano Runs From Our Lake Highlands Base

We schedule consultations Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, and the first meeting happens in your Plano kitchen:

1. Consultation and measure. We walk the room, photograph it, measure and talk through how you use it.
2. Design and selections. Layout drawings first, then cabinet style, stone (granite, quartz or marble), tile and lighting.
3. Written scope and estimate. You see what is included and what would change the number, such as a moved drain or a rerouted duct.
4. Permits when the work needs them. The City of Plano runs its own building inspection office, and plumbing and electrical portions go to trades licensed through TSBPE and TDLR, as Texas requires.
5. Demolition, install and walkthrough. Arian and Ax, who lead our projects, stay with the job through the final walkthrough.

Google reviewer Jeff H. wrote that the team was "very fair when unexpected issues came up," which matters most in a slab-and-soffit house.

What We Can Say About Plano, US-75 and the Neighbors We Cover

We have no published Plano projects or Plano-tagged reviews yet, so we won't pretend otherwise. What we can state is coverage: every part of the city, from the older east side near Historic Downtown Plano's 15th Street to the later-built west side around Willow Bend and Legacy, is within our regular service area. The drive is about 30 minutes in normal traffic.

Plano sits mostly in Collin County with a small western edge in Denton County, but one city building inspection office handles permits on both sides of the line. East of US-75 the housing is generally older; west toward the Dallas North Tollway it skews later, with more HOA-governed neighborhoods whose architectural review covers exterior changes such as windows and roof vents.

Neighbors we cover on their own pages: Richardson's mid-century and 1970s homes to the south, Allen up US-75, Parker's large-lot custom homes to the east, and Addison and Frisco to the west. Comparing materials first? Read our guide to quartz versus granite for Texas kitchens.