Kitchen & Bath Remodeling in Brentwood, Los Angeles

A mid-range Brentwood kitchen remodel typically runs $28,000 to $55,000, while a high-end or estate-scale kitchen — custom cabinetry, natural-stone counters, a full layout change — lands $60,000 to $150,000 or more. Brentwood's older, larger housing stock means quotes tend to land above the national midpoint. We don't quote sight-unseen: every kitchen starts with a free consultation and a written scope. Call (424) 369-0310 or see [kitchen remodeling](/kitchen-remodeling).

All four are neighborhoods of the City of Los Angeles, not separate cities, so every remodel here permits through the LA Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) under the California Building Standards Code (Title 24). We handle permit submission as part of the design-build scope, and confirm whether your address falls under LA's hillside rules or a fire hazard zone before design is finalized. Significant remodels also have to meet CALGreen.

Design-build means one team owns both design and construction, instead of you hiring a designer and bidding the drawings out to a separate contractor. Tal and Ari opened Brentwood Kitchen Remodel And Bath Co in 2008 and are still the two owners signing every written scope 18 years later — the people who draw your kitchen are the same people building it. That accountability is why the number in your written scope is the number the crew builds to.

It does. Brentwood's canyon foothills fall under LA's hillside and grading regulations, and much of that terrain sits in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, bringing Chapter 7A fire-hardening into the scope. A hillside lot can also mean foundation, footing and drainage questions a flat-lot remodel never touches, which is why we walk the property before pricing anything. None of this stops a remodel — it means the plan accounts for the lot it sits on.

Yes — accessory dwelling units are one of the busiest project types on the Westside since California's 2016 ADU laws preempted local zoning on most residential lots. Across the Southern California (SCAG) region, ADUs grew from 11% to 26% of housing permits between 2018 and 2022. On a Brentwood or Bel-Air lot, feasibility usually turns on setbacks, lot coverage, grading and utility connections, all assessed at the free consultation. See [home additions & ADUs](/home-additions).

Bel-Air sits entirely within the Santa Monica Mountains, reached through its gated East and West Gates, with a 2008 median household income of $207,938 — the highest in Los Angeles County. The neighborhood remains in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone today, so Chapter 7A fire-hardening shapes almost every hillside remodel here. Gated access and narrow canyon roads also constrain construction staging. Estate-scale kitchen and primary-bath work is our most common project inside the gates.

Substantially. Westwood mixes multimillion-dollar Holmby Hills estates with condominiums and Wilshire-corridor high-rises near UCLA, and a job in one looks nothing like a job in the other. A Holmby Hills project runs closer to Bel-Air's estate-scale scope, while a condo remodel adds HOA approval and stacked-unit logistics a single-family lot never involves. We confirm which situation applies at the consultation — see [Westwood](/westwood).

The Palisades Fire that began January 7, 2025 destroyed 6,831 structures and damaged 973 more — the third-most-destructive wildfire in California history — and much of the neighborhood is now in active rebuild. The City responded with an expedited permitting path that lets design professionals self-certify plans and approves like-for-like rebuilds up to 10% larger than the pre-fire footprint. Coastal-bluff parcels also sit in the Coastal Zone, where a Coastal Development Permit can apply. We work both rebuilds and standard remodels across [Pacific Palisades](/pacific-palisades).

A bathroom remodel typically runs 2 to 6 weeks on site, and a kitchen runs 4 to 12 weeks, because demolition, rough-in, cabinetry, countertop templating and tile happen in sequence rather than all at once. Hillside lots and older canyon homes can extend that timeline when foundation work is involved. Whole-home projects are phased and can run 4 to 9-plus months.

Title 24 is the California Building Standards Code, and its energy provisions (Part 6) plus the CALGreen standards (Part 11) apply to significant remodels and additions across Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood and the Palisades. In practice that shapes decisions on insulation, glazing, lighting and mechanical systems on the parts of the home the remodel touches. On larger additions, a HERS compliance test is often required before the permit closes out.

It depends on where in the service area you sit. Pacific Palisades' coastal bluffs and parcels near Pacific Coast Highway are in the Coastal Zone, where a Coastal Development Permit and, in some cases, California Coastal Commission review can apply. Brentwood, Bel-Air and Westwood are all inland and sit outside the Coastal Zone, though their canyon terrain brings its own grading and fire-zone rules instead. We confirm Coastal Zone status against your parcel before finalizing any design.

We publish reviews only when a real client writes one about a real project we finished — nothing here is drafted in-house or signed with an invented name. Eighteen years into a career built on returning to the same Westside neighborhoods, we'd rather show a short, honest review page than pad it with anything untraceable. Visit [reviews](/reviews), or judge the firm on what's checkable — a written scope before demolition, one team since 2008.