Kitchen Remodeler in Woonsocket RI

At the height of the Québécois migration to New England's mill cities, Woonsocket was more French than most cities in France. The workers who came from Quebec to run the Blackstone Valley's looms and spindles settled here in such numbers that French was the language of commerce, of the church, and of everyday life on Woonsocket's streets well into the 20th century. The Museum of Work and Culture in the city still tells that story.

They cooked French food in French kitchens in triple-deckers that lined streets named for the communities they'd left behind. The kitchens in those triple-deckers — and they are still mostly triple-deckers, still mostly from the 1880s through the 1910s, still carrying a hundred and thirty years of history in their walls — were designed for a life that looked like that. A wood stove. A larder. A table big enough for a family that ate together every meal.

The Woonsocket kitchens we renovate today have been updated since then — plumbing added, gas lines run, appliances switched out as they failed — but in most cases they've never been fully rethought. The layout is the original layout. The cabinets may be from the 1970s or 1980s. The countertop is whatever was cheapest at the time. The room works, after a fashion, but it hasn't been designed.

Renovating a Woonsocket kitchen in one of these homes requires the same approach as renovating a Pawtucket kitchen: understand the structure you're working in, address the plumbing and electrical honestly, install the cabinets to fit what's actually there rather than what the catalog assumes. We do this work every week. The Woonsocket triple-decker doesn't present conditions we haven't seen.

Call today for a free kitchen remodeling estimate in Woonsocket RI. In-home consultation, detailed written proposal, no pressure.