Home Depot isn’t a general contractor. They can replace your cabinets, but a kitchen redo is so much more than that. 20K worth of cabinets is just the biggest single chunk. That’s only 30-40% of the whole that needs to happen. You’ve also got demolition, disposal, home protection from dirt, floors, appliances, plumbing, lots of electrical, painting, lighting, backsplash, and a good design that pulls all of that together so thst the contractor knows what to do.

The quality of their cabinet people is very hit and miss. Mostly miss.

You’re starting at the build end, without doing the design work first. Do the design work first. Work with a Kitchen Designer. Not a cabinet seller. They will have leads for good contractors to do the work. But they are going to be 3-9 months out. Because this is another building boom.

why pay them to be the middleman??

and what is a 'small kitchen re-design" ?

contact a business who does nothing but kitchen and bath cabinets. Or a Kitchen remodeling business who will also have designers. (if keeping the same layout, you prob won't need this. so just look for a kitchen cabinet business.)

Check Yelp. Call 3-5 of them and have them come out for estimates.

are you in So Cal? I can recommend one for you

How do you know I don’t have a design?

The lead times for whoever you choose will be long. Expect delays. I think every contractor works on a time frame of this is what he thinks, things go wrong or just take longer, and that pushes the rest of his schedule back.

If you have a design post it, and the documentation of all of the details that goes with it. Including the selection sheets. A layout isn't a design.

There are kitchen and bath places which might be a better option than Loewes or Home Depot.

When I was first considering only a remodel of my kitchen, I visited various of the kitchen places. At least in my area they ranged from moderately price in terms of the cabinet lines they carried (e.g. Kraftmaid and Diamond, Omega or extremely high end. And there would be some overlap - e.g. the lowest priced cabinet line in one place would be the highest priced cabinet line in another.

At least in my experience, you can get a sense of the experience and talent of the designers in the various stores. Yes they are cabinet sellers but some are better than others and it is accurate that it is extremely difficult to find a true kitchen designer who is interested in tackling a moderate kitchen because it simply isn't economically viable for that person.

The good kitchen/bath places will have contractors with whom they have a relationship and they can steer you to someone good. As with everything else - caveat emptor in terms of researching both the cabinet store and the GC who they recommend. I visited projects that my GC was working on and got to see the quality of the work he was doing and that of the tradespeople he was using.

When I was making the rounds of the cabinet places, I bought a drawing of my kitchen with measurements and I also brought along pictures of the kitchen and surrounding area. Almost all of them were able to give me plans and an estimate of costs for the cabinets based on the general layout. Obviously this wasn't the exact design plan but it gave me the ability to compare costs on a somewhat of apples to apples basis in terms of the same layout with the same door style and wood species. I also was able to get a sense of how good they were and what it would be like working with them. None of them would actually come out to visit on site and do real measurements without a payment of some kind which would have been recoupable from the cabinet costs.

Ultimately my project expanded and I did a full gut remodel of my condo so the scope of my job was such that I hired a designer for the whole project and used the custom cabinet maker recommended by my designer but I do think that most people who are remodeling just a kitchen wind up purchasing cabinets from some form of cabinet "store". However, Loewes or Home Depot are not necessarily the cheapest or the best or even the "safest" way to go.

My friend do it with Lowes Home Improvement. Her's is beautiful & pick the best cabinet & ur will be too. Just do it! She is happy!