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Kitchen Remodeling · Cumming, GA
Kitchen Remodeling in Cumming, Georgia
Custom cabinetry, stone, and open layouts built for how your family actually cooks and gathers.
Kitchen Remodeling in Cumming
The wall between the kitchen and everyone else
The single most common kitchen in Cumming is a late-1990s builder kitchen: oak or cherry cabinets, a small island, a soffit above the uppers, and a wall separating the cook from the family room where everyone actually is. Nothing about it is failing. It just belongs to a floor plan people stopped wanting twenty years ago. Opening that wall is usually the whole project, and it is usually a structural question before it is a design question.
We start by finding out what that wall is doing. If it is load bearing, the beam and the point loads under it get engineered, and the header detail decides how the finished ceiling reads. Get that right and the room looks like it was always this way. Get it wrong and you live with a dropped bulkhead across the middle of your kitchen forever.
Scope of Work
What a GHIR kitchen includes
Most kitchen remodels run 6 to 10 weeks of construction once selections are complete and materials are on site.
Custom cabinetry
Built for your ceiling height and your storage, not ordered in stock sizes and filled in with trim.
Countertops and backsplash
Quartz, granite, and natural stone, templated and installed by people who do it every week.
Layout and wall changes
Removing or relocating walls, including the structural work when the wall is carrying load.
Flooring
Continuous flooring through the kitchen and adjoining rooms so the space reads as one.
Lighting and electrical
Recessed, decorative, and under-cabinet lighting on a plan, plus the circuits new appliances actually require.
Plumbing and appliances
Relocated sinks, pot fillers, vent routing, and appliance integration.
Local Requirements
Permitting in Cumming and Forsyth County
Permitting is handled by Forsyth County Planning & Community Development, or the City of Cumming if the property sits inside city limits. Here is what actually shapes the schedule on a kitchen remodeling project in Cumming.
Two different building departments
Whether your project is reviewed by Forsyth County or the City of Cumming depends on which side of the city limit line your parcel falls on. We confirm jurisdiction before drawings are started, because the submittal packages are not the same.
When a kitchen actually needs a permit
Swapping cabinets and counters in place usually does not require one. Moving a wall, relocating a sink or gas line, or adding circuits does, and a new range vent through the roof adds a mechanical permit on top.
Septic approval comes before the building permit
If your home is on septic, Forsyth County Environmental Health has to sign off on the proposed footprint before a building permit can be issued, and that review can take twenty business days or more. It is the item most likely to move your start date, so we file it first.
Watershed and stream buffers north of town
Parts of northern Forsyth sit inside the Etowah Water Supply Watershed overlay, which carries impervious surface setbacks measured from the stream bank. On sloped or creek-adjacent lots we check this before laying out a footprint rather than after.
Realistic review windows
A complete custom home submittal in Forsyth County generally runs four to eight weeks, and complex grading, drainage, or a larger footprint can stretch that to ten or twelve. City of Cumming fire review typically closes within ten business days of the fee being paid.
Why GHIR
Why Cumming homeowners choose GHIR
Custom cabinetry, not stock plus filler
Cabinets are built to your ceiling height and your storage, so you are not paying for trim to hide the four inches where a stock box did not reach.
Structural wall removal done properly
Beam sizing, point loads, and foundation support engineered and permitted, with a flush ceiling where the wall used to be.
Selections locked before demo
Cabinets and stone are long-lead items. We lock selections early so your kitchen is not sitting in primer for six weeks waiting on a door style.
One crew, start to finish
Demo, framing, electrical, plumbing, cabinetry, stone, and tile run on one schedule under one superintendent.
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Areas We Serve
Kitchen Remodeling across Cumming & Forsyth
Cumming grew faster than almost anywhere in Georgia between 1995 and 2010, which means a large share of its housing stock is now twenty to thirty years old: good bones, dated layouts, and closed-off kitchens that no longer match how the families inside them actually live.
How It Works
Your kitchen remodeling project, step by step
Free consultation
We measure, listen to how you actually cook and gather, and give an honest budget range for the scope you want.
Design and line-item budget
Layout options, cabinetry drawings, and a trade-by-trade budget before demo day.
Selections
Cabinet, stone, tile, and hardware selections locked in early so long-lead items arrive on time.
Permits where required
Structural, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical work goes through Forsyth County Planning & Community Development, or the City of Cumming if the property sits inside city limits.
Construction and walkthrough
Demo, rough-in, inspections, cabinetry, stone, and finish, then a punch walkthrough.
★★★★★
“They opened up the whole back of the house and you cannot tell where the old wall was. The detail work is what sold us and it is what we still notice.”
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Common Questions
Kitchen Remodeling in Cumming FAQs
How long is a kitchen remodel in Cumming?
Most run 6 to 10 weeks of construction once selections are complete and materials are on site. Removing a load-bearing wall or relocating plumbing adds time for engineering, permitting, and inspection.
Do I need a permit to remodel a kitchen in Forsyth County?
If you are only replacing cabinets and counters in place, usually not. As soon as you move or remove a wall, relocate plumbing, or add circuits, you do. We pull it either way when it is required, through Forsyth County or the City of Cumming depending on where your parcel sits.
Can I stay in the house during the remodel?
Most families do. We seal the work zone, run dust control, and can set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere in the house. The hardest stretch is usually the ten days around demo and rough-in.
What areas around Cumming do you serve?
We are based in Dawsonville and work throughout North Georgia, including Cumming, Cumming, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Buford, Gainesville, Suwanee, Roswell, and Sandy Springs.
Are you a licensed general contractor in Georgia?
Yes. GHIR holds Georgia Unlimited GC licenses #GCCO006076 and #GCQA006072, plus Florida GC #CGC1527188. We are a NARI Atlanta member and fully insured.
Do you offer financing?
Yes. We offer unsecured project financing up to $150,000 with no home equity required. Ask during your free consultation.
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