Calabasas
Planning a Calabasas kitchen remodel: from Tuscan to timeless
Many Calabasas homes were built in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s with heavy raised-panel cabinets, granite and travertine. A kitchen remodel in Calabasas is often about keeping the warmth of those homes while making the kitchen lighter and calmer.
Nolte Küchen design
01Calabasas homes
Planned communities and Mediterranean homes
Much of Calabasas is made up of planned communities such as Calabasas Park, Mont Calabasas and Mulwood, many of them gated and managed by homeowners’ associations. The typical house is Mediterranean or Tuscan in style, with stucco, tile roofs, arched windows, beams and travertine floors. In the canyons, the Calabasas Highlands keep a more rustic, individual character.
Kitchens from that era tend to share a look: raised-panel cherry or maple doors, crown moldings, busy granite. They are well built but feel dark today. The challenge is to modernize without fighting the architecture.
02A bridge
Updating a Tuscan kitchen without losing its warmth
A slim frame front is often the right bridge. Nolte’s matte lacquer frame fronts, such as EVORA LACK with its narrow frame, keep a hint of tradition while reading cleaner than raised panels, in warm colors like Cashmere, Sahara or Greige. Paired with oak and a pale natural stone, they sit comfortably under wooden beams.
If your travertine floors are staying, we choose fronts and worktops that respect their color. See transitional kitchens and lacquer cabinets for the range.
03Palette
Materials that suit Calabasas homes
- Travertine
- Light oak
- Taj Mahal quartzite
- Cashmere matte lacquer
- Walnut
- Travertine
- Often already on the floor; we design around it
- Light oak
- Warmth without the weight of cherry
- Taj Mahal quartzite
- A calm, warm stone that replaces busy granite
- Cashmere matte lacquer
- A soft neutral from Nolte’s matte lacquer concept
- Walnut
- Depth for an island or bar
04Homeowners’ associations
HOA questions to settle before a kitchen remodel in Calabasas
- Approval
- Does the association need to review interior work, or only exterior changes?
- Work hours
- Which days and times are trades allowed to work?
- Gate access
- How are delivery vehicles and installers let in?
- Deliveries
- Are there limits on truck size or parking during delivery?
05Getting here
From Calabasas to Glendale
Calabasas is the farthest of the areas on these pages, about 27 miles from the showroom, roughly 35 to 50 minutes east on the 101 and the 134 outside rush hour; times are approximate. If you can, avoid the weekday afternoon rush on the 101.
To make the trip count, send us photos and a plan first, or a sketch from the 3D configurator. Neighboring Encino shares many of the same questions about large, open kitchens.
Can we keep our travertine floors?
Does our HOA need to approve a kitchen remodel?
Do you design closets for Calabasas homes?
Can we reuse our existing granite worktops?
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