From a clean cabinet-and-counter refresh to a full gut renovation with an open layout — built by one local crew, every LADBS permit pulled, from our Valley Glen shop just up the road.
Professional, licensed & insured Fixed-price proposals Permits pulled & closed Our own crew, not subs
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Kitchen Remodeling in Van Nuys, CA: Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284) remodels kitchens for 1950s R1 tract homes, typically 1,200–1,600 sq ft on 6,000–7,500 sq ft lots across Kester Ridge, the Lake Balboa side and the Civic Center blocks, with its own crew and permits through LADBS, City of Los Angeles, at the Van Nuys counter on Van Nuys 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 5 minutes from Van Nuys. Planning ranges by tier and neighborhood are in the kitchen remodel cost guide.
Right Image Builders is a licensed general contractor remodeling kitchens across Van Nuys — Kester Ridge, the Lake Balboa side, and the Van Nuys/Kester corridor. We handle everything in-house: cabinets, countertops, tile, electrical, plumbing, and load-bearing wall removal, with every permit pulled through LADBS. Licensed & insured, CSLB #1021284, based minutes away in Valley Glen. Free on-site estimate: (818) 210-4544.
Van Nuys is our backyard. Our shop sits on Burbank Boulevard in Valley Glen, a few minutes from the Van Nuys Civic Center — so when we say we're a local kitchen contractor, we mean the crew that shows up has been remodeling these exact streets for over a decade.
The Van Nuys housing stock is specific, and it drives the work. Most of the neighborhood is 1950s R1 tract construction: solid post-war homes with closed-off galley kitchens, original 60-amp-era wiring that's been patched over the years, and layouts that wall the kitchen away from the rest of the house. A Van Nuys kitchen remodel is usually two jobs in one — modernizing the finishes and rethinking a floor plan that no longer matches how people actually live.
We do all of it under one roof: demolition, framing, rough plumbing and electrical, cabinetry, countertop templating and installation, tile, and finish carpentry. No subcontractor roulette, no crews on different schedules. One contract covers design, LADBS, City of Los Angeles, at the Van Nuys counter on Van Nuys 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 and closed. Van Nuys falls under the City of LA, so we submit through LADBS and carry the project all the way to signed-off final inspection — not left open six months later like the "handyman special" down the block.
Shaker, slab, inset, and Eurostyle cabinet programs built and installed by our own team — dovetail drawer boxes, soft-close hardware, pantry and organization systems. We size cabinetry to the real dimensions of a Van Nuys tract kitchen, not a showroom rendering.
We work directly with stone fabricators — no middleman markup. Quartz (Silestone, Cambria, Caesarstone, MSI), quartzite, granite, porcelain slab, and natural marble. Waterfall islands, integrated undermount sinks, and matched backsplash are all in scope.
The signature Van Nuys project: taking out the wall between a closed galley kitchen and the living room. We coordinate the structural engineering, beam sizing, temporary shoring, and LVL or steel install — all permitted through LADBS, all under our contract.
Large-format porcelain, handmade ceramic, natural stone, subway, and zellige — installed by our in-house tile crew with proper edge and transition systems. New luxury vinyl plank or tile flooring flows the kitchen into the adjacent rooms once the wall is gone.
Panel-ready refrigerators, integrated dishwashers, range hood venting, pot-filler rough-in, under-cabinet LED, and microwave-drawer cutouts — all planned before cabinets go in, so nothing is hacked in afterward.
Older Van Nuys homes almost always need electrical brought to current code — dedicated circuits, GFCI protection, island outlets, and panel work. We handle the rough-in, the LADBS inspections, and the sign-off, so the kitchen is safe and legal, not just pretty.
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.
Van Nuys isn't one neighborhood — it's a patchwork, and the kitchen work changes block to block. In Kester Ridge and the pockets west toward Lake Balboa, we see larger post-war homes with room to push the kitchen into a real open-concept great room. Along the Van Nuys / Kester corridor and the flats, it's tighter 1950s tract stock where the win is a smart galley-to-open conversion that finally connects the kitchen to the dining room.
Because Van Nuys is City of Los Angeles, everything is permitted through LADBS. Valley submissions and inspections are handled out of the Van Nuys Development Services Center on Van Nuys Boulevard — a building we know well and are in and out of regularly. That local familiarity is why our plan-check turnaround tends to be faster than a contractor learning the counter for the first time.
The other Van Nuys reality is electrical. These homes were wired for a 1955 appliance load, not a modern kitchen with an induction range, double ovens, and a beverage fridge. Nearly every remodel here includes a panel evaluation and code-compliant rewiring of the kitchen — which we build into the fixed price up front, so it's never a "surprise" change order mid-project.
Right Image Builders prices a kitchen remodel in Van Nuys the same way every time: a free on-site visit, a measured scope, the LADBS requirements checked for your address, and an itemized fixed price in writing within a few business days.
Hidden conditions are priced in writing when they are found, not on the final invoice; the number you sign is the number you pay, and the final payment follows your walkthrough.
For planning ranges before the visit, see the kitchen remodel cost guide.
A senior member of our team visits your Van Nuys kitchen, listens to what you want, 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, electrical, permits, labor. The number is committed before we start.
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 Van Nuys 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 5 minutes from Van Nuys, remodels kitchens across Kester Ridge, the Lake Balboa side, the Civic Center blocks 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 Van Nuys 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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