Chef's kitchens, great-room additions, and full renovations for Tarzana's big-lot flats and hillside homes — one team, every LADBS permit pulled, the Hillside Ordinance handled south of Ventura.
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Kitchen Remodeling in Tarzana, CA: Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284) remodels kitchens for big-lot ranch homes on the north flats, RA horse-keeping parcels in Melody Acres, and hillside estates south of Ventura across the flats north of Ventura, Melody Acres and the Vanalden area, with its own crew and permits through LADBS, City of Los Angeles, with Baseline Hillside Ordinance review south of Ventura Boulevard. Typical build 5–8 weeks on site once permits are issued. One fixed written price after a free on-site estimate.
Licensed general contractor, CSLB #1021284, licensed since 2016, 5.0★ Google (45 reviews), 4.9★ Angi (103 reviews). Office in Valley Glen, about 20 minutes from Tarzana. Planning ranges by tier and neighborhood are in the kitchen remodel cost guide.
Right Image Builders is a licensed general contractor remodeling kitchens across Tarzana — the big level lots on the north flats, the Vanalden area, and the upscale homes in the Tarzana hills south of Ventura. We build chef's kitchens, islands, and great-room layouts in-house, with every permit pulled through LADBS and the Hillside Ordinance handled where it applies. Licensed & insured, CSLB #1021284, based in Valley Glen a straight drive east. Free on-site estimate: (818) 210-4544.
Tarzana is a neighborhood of room. The flats north of Ventura Boulevard sit on big, level lots — the kind of parcel that makes a great-room addition or an oversized chef's kitchen genuinely feasible instead of a squeeze. South of Ventura, the streets climb into the Tarzana hills, where larger, upscale homes with a semi-rural feel come with bigger ambitions and a more demanding site.
That split shapes almost every kitchen we build here. On the flats, the win is often footprint — bumping the kitchen out into a real open great room while the lot happily allows it. In the hills, it's a high-end renovation on a house that already has scale, where the challenge is doing premium work on a hillside parcel correctly and on permit.
We handle every trade under one roof: demolition, framing, structural, rough plumbing and electrical, cabinetry, countertop templating and installation, tile, and finish carpentry. One contract covers design, LADBS, City of Los Angeles, with Baseline Hillside Ordinance review south of Ventura Boulevard and construction; the project lead who does your estimate at home runs the build, and the itemized fixed-price proposal follows within 3–5 business days.
And every permit is pulled through LADBS and closed with a signed final inspection. South of Ventura the kitchen itself is standard work; the site is not. Canyon streets leave no room for a dumpster, slabs and cabinets are carried in by hand, and the neighbors get a parking and delivery plan before demolition. We price that access into the fixed proposal instead of discovering it on day one.
Full-custom and semi-custom programs built and installed by our own team — Shaker, slab, inset, and rift oak, with dovetail drawer boxes, soft-close hardware, and pantry and organization systems. We size cabinetry to the real footprint of a Tarzana kitchen, from a big-lot great room to a hillside chef's layout.
We work direct with stone fabricators — no middleman markup. Quartz, quartzite, marble, granite, and porcelain slab, with waterfall islands, integrated sinks, and matched backsplash. On Tarzana's larger lots the island is usually the centerpiece, and we template and build it to suit.
The big-lot Tarzana project: opening the kitchen to the living space or bumping the footprint into a great-room addition. We coordinate the structural engineering, beam sizing, shoring, and LVL or steel install — all permitted through LADBS, and engineered to the Hillside Ordinance on south-of-Ventura homes.
Large-format porcelain, natural stone, handmade ceramic, subway, and zellige, plus wide-plank and engineered wood flooring that flows the new kitchen into the rest of the home — installed by our in-house crew with proper edge and transition detailing.
Panel-ready refrigeration, integrated dishwashers, professional ranges and hood venting, pot-filler rough-in, and layered lighting — all planned before cabinets are set, so the high-end appliances Tarzana homeowners choose fit precisely into a chef's kitchen.
South of Ventura the kitchen itself is standard work; the site is not. Canyon streets leave no room for a dumpster, slabs and cabinets are carried in by hand, and the neighbors get a parking and delivery plan before demolition. We price that access into the fixed proposal instead of discovering it on day one.
Professional, licensed and insured, and we put that in writing at every step, because a remodel is a trust decision before it is a construction decision.
California general contractor license CSLB #1021284 (General Building B), active since 2016, with general liability and workers' compensation insurance. Check the license yourself at cslb.ca.gov before you sign anything, with us or anyone else.
The proposal lists what is demolished, what is built, which finishes are included and which permit covers it. If it is not written down, it is not in the job.
When walls, floors or roofs open up we photograph what is behind them and send you the pictures. Anything beyond the scope is priced in writing before the crew continues. You never find out from the invoice.
California law caps a home-improvement deposit at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract, whichever is less. We follow it. Progress payments follow the work, and the final payment comes after your walkthrough.
We submit the plans, meet the inspector and close the permit. You get the closed-permit record, which is what a buyer, an insurer or an appraiser will ask for.
The people who estimate the job are the people who build it. No subcontractor hand-offs, no call center; your project lead answers the phone during the job and after it.
Ventura Boulevard is the dividing line in Tarzana, and it changes the kitchen work on either side. North of the boulevard — the flats and the Vanalden area — you find big, level lots that give a kitchen real room to grow. This is prime territory for a large addition, a proper great room, or an oversized island, because the parcel simply allows it.
South of Ventura, the streets rise into the Tarzana hills — larger, upscale homes with a semi-rural feel and views to match. South of Ventura the kitchen itself is standard work; the site is not. Canyon streets leave no room for a dumpster, slabs and cabinets are carried in by hand, and the neighbors get a parking and delivery plan before demolition. We price that access into the fixed proposal instead of discovering it on day one.
Everything is City of Los Angeles, permitted through LADBS. Our shop is in Valley Glen, a straight drive east along the Valley floor — close enough that a project lead stays hands-on through framing, cabinetry, and final inspection, whether your kitchen is on the flats or up in the hills.
Every kitchen remodel in Tarzana gets one fixed, written price after a free on-site visit: we measure the house, check what LADBS requires for the lot and price the whole scope before you sign anything.
What moves the number is the scope you choose, the condition we find behind the walls and the finish level, never a surprise invoice: anything we uncover during the work is priced in writing before the crew continues, and the final payment comes after your walkthrough.
Setting a budget first? The kitchen remodel cost guide shows the current planning ranges by tier and neighborhood.
A senior member of our team visits your Tarzana kitchen, reads the lot — flats or hillside — and gives you an honest read on cost and timeline. No pressure, no call-center runaround.
Within 3–5 business days you get a fully itemized, fixed-price proposal — cabinets, stone, tile, structural, permits, labor. Hillside requirements included, not tacked on later.
One crew, all LADBS permits, your project lead on-site. We hand you a finished kitchen with a closed permit. Final payment is due only after your walkthrough approval.
Tell us about your kitchen and we'll get back to you within 4 business hours with next steps. No obligation, no sales pressure — just a straight answer on what your project takes.
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We hired Right Image Builders for a full kitchen remodel and couldn't be happier. The owner personally showed up to every major milestone. The fixed-price contract was exactly what we needed — no surprise invoices, no scope creep. Our kitchen looks like it belongs in a magazine.
Our kitchen went from a 1980s relic to something out of Architectural Digest. Right Image Builders was meticulous with every detail — the cabinetry alignment, the backsplash grout, the countertop templating. Genuinely impressive work.
Two bathrooms, new hardwood floors, kitchen cabinets, and a laundry room — all in one project. Right Image Builders coordinated everything flawlessly. They answered every text within the hour. This is how construction is supposed to work.
Plain answers on costs, permits, materials and hiring, written for Los Angeles houses and kept current.
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Read the answers →Yes. Right Image Builders is a licensed California general contractor, CSLB #1021284, with general liability and workers' compensation insurance; verify the license in minutes at cslb.ca.gov under "Check a License" and ask us for the insurance certificates. The Tarzana estimate is free and on site, done by the project lead who will run the job, and the itemized fixed-price proposal follows within 3–5 business days.
Right Image Builders, a licensed general contractor (CSLB #1021284) based in Valley Glen about 20 minutes from Tarzana, remodels kitchens across the flats north of Ventura, Melody Acres, the Vanalden area under one fixed-price contract: design, permits through LADBS, and construction by one crew, with final payment only after your walkthrough. 5.0★ on Google (45 reviews) and 4.9★ on Angi (103 reviews).
Go to cslb.ca.gov, choose "Check a License" and enter the number; ours is 1021284. Confirm the license is active, classified B (General Building Contractor), bonded, and shows workers' compensation. Then ask for a written fixed-price contract with scope, materials, schedule and payment terms; California law requires it, and it is the only way to hold any contractor to the promise.
Not without your written approval. The fixed price covers the scope we agreed, the LADBS permit and the inspections; if the house in Tarzana hides a problem, you get a written, priced change order before the crew touches it, and the final payment is only due after your walkthrough. Current planning ranges are in the kitchen remodel cost guide.
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Free on-site consultation. Fixed-price proposal. One local team from demo to final walkthrough — with every LADBS permit pulled and the Hillside Ordinance handled south of Ventura.
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