Interior Design Studio · Serving Seattle
Kitchen Remodel Design in Seattle, WA
NU Curations designs kitchen remodels for Seattle homeowners: layout, cabinetry, materials, and lighting resolved into one cohesive, buildable plan your licensed contractor can build with confidence.
Book a Design ConsultationA Seattle kitchen should work as beautifully as it looks
A kitchen remodel is hundreds of decisions: the layout, the cabinet fronts, the counter stone, the tile, the hardware, the light over the island. Make them one at a time and the room can end up feeling pieced together. We make them as one composition, so your kitchen feels cohesive, personal, and easy to live in.
Our Seattle portfolio includes Queen Anne Crestside, Ballard Reno, and Seattle Townhouse, homes across the city where we shaped kitchens and living spaces around how each family actually cooks, gathers, and lives.
What our kitchen remodel design service includes
We handle the design decisions that make or break a kitchen remodel, so you walk into construction with a complete, buildable plan instead of a folder of inspiration photos.
Layout & space planning
We rethink how your kitchen actually works: the cooking triangle, storage, seating, and how the room connects to dining and living spaces.
Cabinetry & millwork design
Cabinet elevations, door styles, and storage details designed around how you cook, entertain, and put things away.
Materials & finish selections
Countertops, tile, hardware, plumbing fixtures, paint, and flooring chosen as one cohesive palette, with every specification documented.
Lighting design
Layered task, ambient, and accent lighting, from pendants over the island to under-cabinet lighting, planned before the electrician arrives.
Contractor coordination
We prepare the drawings and specifications your licensed contractor builds from, and stay available to answer design questions during construction.
Styling & finishing
Once construction wraps, we layer in the open-shelf styling, seating, and finishing details that make the kitchen feel complete.
Kitchen design from our Seattle-area projects
How much does a kitchen remodel cost in Seattle?
Seattle construction costs run meaningfully above national averages. Local remodeler guides put the premium at roughly 15 to 25%, driven by labor rates and permit costs. Based on ranges published by Seattle-area remodelers, most projects land in one of three tiers:
Refresh
$18,000 to $35,000
Keep the existing layout and update the surfaces: counters, backsplash, hardware, paint, and lighting that bring the kitchen forward without moving plumbing.
Full remodel
$45,000 to $85,000
New cabinetry, counters, appliances, tile, and a full lighting plan within the existing footprint. This is where most Seattle kitchen remodels land.
Layout change
$85,000 to $150,000+
Walls opened or moved, the footprint rethought, and structural work involved. This scope is common in older Seattle homes where the kitchen was built as a closed-off service room.
Ranges reflect construction market costs paid to your licensed contractor, based on published Seattle-area remodeler guides; design fees are quoted separately after consultation. Older Seattle homes can surface discovery conditions (dated wiring, hidden moisture) that affect construction budgets.
How a kitchen remodel design project works
Our process is designed to replace uncertainty with momentum, whether you are refreshing finishes or reworking the entire layout.
- 1
Start with a consultation
We learn how you cook and live, what is not working in the current kitchen, and what you want the space to feel like.
- 2
Get a clear design direction
We shape the layout, cabinetry, materials, and lighting into one cohesive plan, refined with your feedback.
- 3
Hand off a buildable plan
Your licensed contractor receives complete drawings and selections, so bids are accurate and construction starts with clarity.
- 4
See it through with confidence
We stay involved through construction questions and finishing details so the built result matches the design.
Why Seattle homeowners choose NU Curations
Seattle's housing stock has real character, and remodeling it well means designing with that character rather than against it. The Craftsman bungalows that define Wallingford, Ballard, Green Lake, and Ravenna were mostly built between 1900 and 1930, when kitchens were closed-off service rooms at the back of the house. The most common Seattle kitchen remodel we see is opening that plan and connecting the kitchen to dining and living space, while keeping the millwork warmth and proportions that made you love the house in the first place.
Northeast Seattle tells a different story: View Ridge and Wedgwood filled in during the 1940s through the 60s with ramblers and modest postwar homes whose kitchens are now sixty-plus years old, and the city's newer townhouses trade square footage for light, which makes storage and layout planning do the heavy lifting.
We know these homes because we have designed in them. Queen Anne Crestside, Ballard Reno, and Seattle Townhouse are all NU Curations projects in Seattle proper, and each one is a home where layout, materials, and lighting were resolved as a single composition before construction began.
Neighborhoods we serve
- Ballard
- Wallingford
- Queen Anne
- Capitol Hill
- Green Lake
- Ravenna
- Wedgwood
- West Seattle
Client Experience
“Neha was wonderful to work with. She listened and understood our needs and was able to coordinate our eclectic styles and came up with a beautiful design for our new home. We couldn't be happier. I would highly recommend NU Curation and Neha to anyone looking to design their home.”
Sara, NU Curations Client
Kitchen Remodel Design across the Seattle area
Frequently Asked Questions
Based on ranges published by Seattle-area remodelers, a surface-level refresh typically runs $18,000 to $35,000, a full remodel within the existing footprint $45,000 to $85,000, and a layout change with structural work $85,000 to $150,000 or more. Those are construction costs paid to your contractor; design fees are quoted separately after we understand your scope.
Plan on roughly three to six months end to end. Design and selections typically take two to eight weeks, semi-custom cabinetry often has six- to ten-week lead times, and construction runs from about six weeks for a straightforward remodel to sixteen weeks when layout and structure change.
Yes, that is the most common Seattle kitchen project we design. Homes built before 1930 usually have compartmentalized kitchens, and we design the opened plan so it feels original to the house: proportions, millwork, and materials that honor the home's character while your licensed contractor handles the structural work.
All of them. Recent NU Curations projects sit in Queen Anne, Ballard, and central Seattle, and we regularly work with homeowners in Wallingford, Green Lake, Ravenna, Capitol Hill, Wedgwood, and West Seattle.
No. NU Curations is an interior design studio, and construction is performed by your licensed general contractor. We design the kitchen, document every selection, and coordinate with your contractor so the build matches the plan. If you do not have a contractor yet, we are happy to work alongside the one you choose.
Permitting is managed by your licensed contractor as part of construction. Our role is to provide the design documentation and selections your contractor works from, and to keep the design intent intact through the permitting and building process.
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