Kitchen Remodeling in Beverly Hills

A Beverly Hills kitchen is rarely a cabinet swap. The rooms are large. The finishes are specified down to the edge profile. The house around the kitchen is often decades old, with framing, wiring, and drainage that were never built for a 48-inch range, a second dishwasher, and a full-height wine wall.

I start with measured field drawings of the existing space before anyone opens a wall. Slab, cabinetry, and appliance selections get locked early, because lead times drive the calendar more than labor does. Wall relocations, beam work, and island utility runs get engineered and drawn. Nothing structural gets improvised on site.

The rest of the house stays livable. Floor and stair protection, dust walls, sealed returns, and a crew lead on site every day. You get one point of contact, and it is me.

You also get a written scope, a stage schedule tied to named milestones, and a daily photo record. Every selection carries a decision date, so a countertop template never stalls a framing crew. If the scope moves, it goes in writing and you approve it before work continues. No verbal changes.

Beverly Hills building permits are not reviewed by LADBS or by Los Angeles County. The city runs its own Building and Safety Division inside the Community Development Department, and that division is the enforcing agency for residential and commercial construction inside city limits. Plans and permits go through the Permit Center at 455 North Rexford Drive, and inspections and payments run on the city's CitySmart portal.

Beverly Hills Municipal Code section 9-1-107 requires a permit before a regulated structure or building service equipment is altered, repaired, or improved. Work exempt from a permit is listed at 9-1-107(B). A kitchen that moves plumbing, adds circuits, relocates gas, or touches framing sits squarely inside that section.

Two city rules shape every schedule. A plan check application stays valid for 545 calendar days from the date the fee is paid, under BHMC 9-1-107(L)(3). An issued building permit is valid for 365 calendar days from issuance and extends 180 days from each successful inspection, under BHMC 9-1-107(N). Keeping inspections moving is what keeps a permit alive.

Work requiring a city permit is approved Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with no holiday construction authorized. Deliveries, demolition, and stone installation get sequenced inside that window. I do not promise a plan check turnaround or a permit issuance date. The city controls review time. What I control is a complete submittal the first time and same-week responses to corrections.

As of January 1, 2026, Beverly Hills enforces the 2025 California Building, Residential, Green Building, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Energy codes. Those editions govern ventilation, lighting controls, and electrical capacity in a large kitchen, and they are written into the plans before submittal.

I walk the kitchen with you, measure, talk through scope and selections, and put the whole thing in writing. Call (949) 558-9738.