Capital Construction is a family-owned, licensed general contractor (CA Contractor License #793440) that brings kitchen remodeling to El Dorado Hills homes with our own in-house team, our Sacramento showroom, and our own countertop fabrication shop. We design, build, and finish the kitchen with people who work for us. We don’t outsource your project to third parties.
Your El Dorado Hills kitchen remodel gets upfront costs and upfront timelines before demolition begins, hands-on material selection in our showroom, and permit coordination handled correctly through El Dorado County. That matters here: El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated community, so residential building permits come from the County, not from a city building department. We know the villages, the foothill terrain, and the drive up the US-50 corridor, and we plan around all three.
The first step is a conversation, not a contract. Schedule a FREE* No-Obligation Estimate or call us at (916) 277-8282, and we’ll come look at your kitchen.
Our Kitchen Remodeling Services in El Dorado Hills
We handle an El Dorado Hills kitchen remodel end to end: design collaboration, demolition, cabinetry, countertops, tile, flooring, lighting, electrical and plumbing coordination, and every finish detail at the end. Our own craftsmen perform the work. We scope projects by what you actually want changed, whether that’s a finish transformation, a full replacement inside the existing footprint, a layout redesign, or opening the kitchen into the rooms around it. The goal is a space that functions the way you actually cook.
New Cabinetry, Storage, and Pantry Planning
Cabinets set the character of the kitchen and carry most of its functionality. We build kitchen remodels around custom and semi-custom cabinetry, deep drawer banks, corner solutions that stop wasting the square footage you paid for, real pantry capacity, island seating, and panels that hide appliances behind cabinet doors. You choose door styles, finishes, and hardware hands-on in our showroom, with the samples in your hands, before a single order is placed.
Countertops Fabricated in Our Own Shop
Your quartz, granite, or stone countertops are cut and finished in our own Sacramento fabrication shop, which keeps quality control, edge profiles, sink cutouts, and backsplash returns under our direct control instead of a stranger’s. Fine details like seam position are decided with you, not for you. Templating happens after your cabinets are set and secured, so the stone is measured against the kitchen as built, not against a drawing. It’s one of the few parts of a kitchen remodel where a fraction of an inch shows forever.
Layout Changes, Walls, and Open-Concept Kitchens
When the kitchen layout itself is the problem, we move it. That includes relocating the sink, range, or cooktop, extending or removing a wall, enlarging an opening into the dining or great room, rerouting electrical and plumbing, and reworking the distances between cooking, cleanup, and cold storage. Opening a wall also changes how sound and light travel through the house, so we talk that through with you before anything comes down. These scopes move a kitchen remodel squarely into permitted territory, and we plan them that way from day one rather than discovering it mid-project.
Tile, Backsplash, Flooring, and Lighting
Backsplash and floor tile, hardwood, luxury vinyl, recessed and task lighting, ceiling details: these are the finishes people actually notice walking into your kitchen, and the first things visitors comment on. You select them in person from full samples in our showroom, under real light, not from a catalog photo or a thumbnail on a screen. Our craftsmen install them, so the layout lines, grout joints, and transitions match what you approved.
Kitchen Plus Adjoining Spaces, From Laundry Room to Connecting Floors
Plenty of El Dorado Hills kitchens open straight into a laundry room, a butler’s pantry, or a great room, and a beautiful new kitchen can make the rooms beside it look tired overnight. We carry flooring, cabinetry, paint, and finish continuity through those adjoining spaces as one coordinated remodel instead of bringing a crew back months later for a second mobilization. If a powder room or hall bathroom sits off the same hallway, we can fold that into the same schedule. Tell us which rooms you’re thinking about, and we’ll scope them together so you see the whole picture and one honest number.
Why El Dorado Hills Homeowners Choose Capital Construction
Homeowners here hire us because we can prove who we are before we ever set foot in the house. Here’s what stands behind the work:
- Family-owned and proudly rooted in Sacramento. We treat El Dorado Hills clients like neighbors, because that’s how we were raised to work.
- CA Contractor License #793440. Verifiable, current, and on every page of our site.
- A real address you can walk into. Our showroom and countertop fabrication shop are at 4815 Auburn Blvd in Sacramento. We’re not a phone number and a truck.
- 20+ years of experience and 700+ happy clients (self-reported on our own site), along with a 4.9/5 rating as posted on our site.
- Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite recognition in five neighborhoods, per Nextdoor, including a 2022 designation.
- Our in-house team only. We don’t outsource your project to third parties and we don’t spread your kitchen across a rotating cast of crews, so the people who start your remodel are the people who finish it. You never have to wonder who’s in your driveway.
- Upfront timelines and upfront costs, with a transparent change-order process in writing, so the numbers don’t quietly move after demolition day and the surprises stay out of your inbox.
Then there’s jurisdiction, which is where a lot of remodeling proposals for this community go wrong. Because El Dorado Hills is unincorporated, your kitchen permit comes from El Dorado County, and any contractor promising to pull it from a City of El Dorado Hills building department is telling you something that doesn’t exist. We also check, parcel by parcel, whether your property sits inside an architecturally controlled area of the El Dorado Hills Community Services District, since those properties may need architectural approval before the County will issue a permit, and whether a village HOA adds its own review layer on top.
Come see the showroom on Auburn Boulevard and meet the craftsmen who will actually be in your home. Request a FREE* No-Obligation Estimate whenever you’re ready.
How Your El Dorado Hills Kitchen Remodel Works, Step by Step
Five steps, in this order, every time:
- 1. Free, no-obligation estimate. We come to your home, measure the kitchen, listen to your vision, and talk honestly about where to spend first and where to hold back. You get a written, scope-specific estimate that separates the work, the selections, the allowances, the permit costs, and the exclusions.
- 2. Design and showroom selections. Cabinets, countertops, tile, flooring, and lighting are chosen in person and locked into a signed finish schedule, with specs and colors recorded, before demolition. Decisions made early are decisions that don’t become change orders later.
- 3. Permits and approvals. We prepare the El Dorado County submittal and confirm first whether CSD or HOA architectural approval applies, since the County application asks the owner to acknowledge relevant CC&Rs and certify that required approval has been obtained. The County collects half the building permit fee and the full planning fee at application. Plans are reviewed in the order received, and an incomplete application loses its place in the queue, which is exactly why we submit complete ones.
- 4. Construction by our in-house team. Protected floors and sealed work areas, a conditioned interior, daily communication, and one accountable crew you’ll recognize in your driveway.
- 5. Inspections and final walkthrough. Only the inspections your approved scope requires, which can include rough and final electrical, rough and final plumbing, framing, gypsum board, and final building. Then we walk the kitchen with you, build the punch list, and finish it before we hand the room back.
What Makes Remodeling a Kitchen in El Dorado Hills Different
Three things shape a kitchen remodel here more than anywhere else: the community’s housing eras, County jurisdiction, and foothill climate. We plan for all of them before the first cabinet is ordered.
Villages, Housing Eras, and the Kitchens They Left Behind
El Dorado Hills has 18,791 housing units and 18,135 households, 87.5% of them owner-occupied, with a median owner-occupied value of $909,500. The median structure year is 2002, and the 2000 to 2009 decade is the largest housing cohort in the community. A great many of those original builder kitchens are now reaching their first real transformation: the same laminate counters, the same shallow pantry, the same island that was never quite big enough.
The original villages tell a different story. Park, Ridgeview, St. Andrews, Crown, and Governors are recognized as El Dorado Hills’ original villages, and Ridgeview Village’s current neighborhood profile reports a median build year of 1990, an average single-family size of roughly 3,073 square feet, and homes built mostly from the late 1970s through the 2000s. In houses that size and age, the comments we hear are almost always the same: too many walls, too little light. There is no single El Dorado Hills housing type, so we scope each kitchen against the house in front of us and create a plan that fits how your family lives in it.
El Dorado County Permits: What Triggers One and What It Costs
Your permit comes from the El Dorado County Planning and Building Department, Building Division, at 330 Fair Lane in Placerville. The County states that major renovations, structural changes, electrical work, and plumbing work typically require permits, while painting, papering, tiling, carpeting, cabinets, countertops, and similar finish work are listed among permit-exempt work. So a like-for-like cabinet and countertop replacement often needs no permit, and moving the sink or adding circuits does.
There is no flat kitchen permit fee to quote you. The County’s current fee schedule lists building and trade permits at 0.0130 times project valuation with a $167 minimum, plus applicable plan review at 0.00325 times valuation with a $167 minimum. Applications submitted on or after January 1, 2026 must comply with the 2025 California Building Standards Code. If CSD or HOA architectural approval applies to your parcel, that comes first. One practical note in your favor: the County treats residential remodels that don’t increase conditioned area, volume, or size as exempt from its construction-and-demolition debris recycling ordinance, which covers most interior kitchen remodels.
Foothill Climate and Material Planning
Warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters change how we sequence a kitchen remodel, with the dry stretch generally running early May through late October. Cabinetry, wood flooring, and other moisture-sensitive materials are stored and acclimated indoors under controlled conditions before installation. Countertops are templated after cabinets are set and the interior is stable. Through the hot months we keep the house conditioned while we work. When a remodel touches exterior doors or windows, we schedule around the weather, and we check El Dorado Hills Fire’s parcel-level Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for your specific address rather than assuming what applies.
A Northern California Team Serving El Dorado Hills From Our Sacramento Showroom
We’ll be straight with you: we don’t have an El Dorado Hills office. We serve the community from 4815 Auburn Blvd in Sacramento by way of US Highway 50, the principal transportation corridor linking Sacramento County with El Dorado Hills, and we bring the same in-house team, the same showroom, and the same fabrication shop to every project on both sides of the freeway. Folsom, Cameron Park, Shingle Springs, Rancho Murieta, and Placerville are among the nearby cities we serve across this part of Northern California.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a realistic budget for a kitchen remodel?
It depends on the kitchen’s size, your material selections, whether the layout changes, and how much electrical, plumbing, and permit work is involved, which is why we give you a written, scope-specific number instead of a teaser range. A complete estimate should itemize demolition, cabinetry, countertops, tile, flooring, lighting, trade work, permit costs, allowances, and exclusions. Compare proposals on scope, not just the figure at the bottom.
Is $10,000 enough for a kitchen remodel?
A figure in that neighborhood typically reaches targeted finish work, such as new countertops, a new backsplash, updated lighting, or paint, rather than a full kitchen replacement with new cabinetry and relocated utilities. That’s an honest tradeoff, not a disqualification. We’ll tell you upfront which version of the project your budget actually supports, and where your money buys the most visible change.
What is the most expensive part of redoing a kitchen?
Cabinetry is usually the single largest line item, with countertops, appliances, and any layout change involving walls, plumbing, or electrical close behind. Fabricating your countertops in our own Sacramento shop keeps that portion of the kitchen remodel under our direct control, from slab selection through the final polished edge.
Do I need an El Dorado County permit for my kitchen remodel?
It depends on scope: the County lists cabinets, countertops, tile, and similar finish work as permit-exempt, while major renovations, structural changes, electrical work, and plumbing work typically require a permit. Because El Dorado Hills is unincorporated, the permit comes from El Dorado County rather than a city department, and some parcels also need El Dorado Hills CSD or HOA architectural approval before the County will issue. We confirm both before work starts.
Is it better to buy a kitchen through a big-box store or hire a local remodeler?
A store sells you products; a remodeler is accountable for the finished kitchen. With us, one licensed company and one in-house crew carry the project through design, selections, permits, construction, and inspections, with one point of contact the whole way. When something needs to be made right, there’s no question about whose responsibility it is.
Do you serve my part of El Dorado Hills?
Yes, we serve all of El Dorado Hills, from the original villages to the newer communities on both sides of US-50. Homeowners typing “kitchen remodel near me” usually want to know where a company physically is, so here it is plainly: our showroom and countertop fabrication shop are in Sacramento, and our own team drives to you.
Start Your El Dorado Hills Kitchen Transformation
Your home is where your life happens, and the next step is a conversation, not a commitment. Request a FREE* No-Obligation Estimate, call us at (916) 277-8282, or email design@capitalconstruction.com, and we’ll set a time to see your kitchen. We’re open Monday through Thursday 9 to 5 and Friday 9 to 4, and you’re welcome at our showroom at 4815 Auburn Blvd in Sacramento, just off Auburn Boulevard. Licensed under CA Contractor License #793440, family-owned, and built by our own in-house team from the first conversation to the final flawless detail.