Cabinetry for Bungalows, Block Homes and New Builds Alike
Tampa is not one kitchen problem, it is a dozen. A 1925 bungalow off Central Avenue in Seminole Heights has a narrow galley with a chimney chase in the wrong place. A 1960s block ranch in Town 'N' Country has eight feet of usable wall and a soffit hiding nothing. A 2015 build in New Tampa has plenty of cabinets and nowhere sensible to put a stand mixer. Same city, three completely different jobs.
Trusted Choice Cabinets works across all of it. Owner Ryan Welker designs the kitchen, orders the cabinets and installs them himself, which matters more in Tampa than in most places, because so much of the housing stock predates the assumptions modern cabinets are built around.
Whether your kitchen is a century old or ten years old, the process is the same: a free in-home consultation, a ProKitchen 3D rendering you approve, then all-wood cabinets built and installed to fit the room you actually have. Call us today at +1 813-767-7535 for kitchen cabinet renovation in Tampa.
Tampa's historic districts — Hyde Park, Tampa Heights and Seminole Heights — hold the city's densest concentration of 1920s bungalows, while the neighborhoods that filled in after the war run to concrete block, and New Tampa is almost entirely post-1990 construction. A cabinet approach that works in one is often wrong in the next.
The advantage of a small shop is that none of this gets standardised. The measurements taken in your kitchen are the measurements the cabinets are built to. Call us today at +1 813-767-7535 for kitchen cabinet renovation in Tampa.
The most common request in the historic neighborhoods is more storage without losing the character of the house. In a 1920s bungalow that usually means taking the uppers to the ceiling, adding a pantry cabinet where a doorway was closed off years ago, and choosing a door style — typically a shaker or a raised panel — that reads as period-appropriate rather than obviously new. Crown moulding scaled to the actual ceiling height matters here; standard-height crown in a nine-foot bungalow room looks wrong immediately.
In the block homes built through the 1950s and 60s, the recurring issue is the soffit. Dropping the bulkhead and running cabinets to the ceiling typically recovers a full shelf of storage across the whole kitchen, and it is the change homeowners notice most. These houses also tend to have original plumbing and electrical in the walls behind the cabinets, which is exactly the kind of thing that turns into a change order when the person installing has never seen the drawing before.
Newer Tampa construction is a different conversation. The cabinets are usually functional but builder-grade, with particle board boxes and interiors that have started to sag. Replacing them with all-wood construction, reworking the island so it seats the number of people who actually sit there, and adding drawer banks in place of lower shelves solves most of what people dislike about a ten-year-old kitchen.
The same door style reads completely differently depending on which Tampa house it lands in. A simple shaker looks period-correct in a Seminole Heights bungalow and looks clean and current in a New Tampa build; a heavily moulded raised panel that suits a larger South Tampa home can overwhelm a small bungalow kitchen entirely. Because the 3D rendering is built from your actual room, you see the combination in place rather than guessing from a door sample in a showroom.
Ceiling height is the other thing worth settling early. Many older Tampa homes have taller ceilings than the standard cabinet run assumes, which opens up two good options: take the cabinets all the way up and use the top shelf for genuine long-term storage, or stop them lower and finish with a deeper crown that suits the room's proportions. Both work. Which is right depends on how much storage you actually need and how tall the people using the kitchen are, and it is a better conversation to have over the drawing than after the order is placed.
Countertops are templated once the new cabinets are installed and levelled, not before. In houses as old as much of Tampa's stock that sequence matters, because a template taken off the old cabinets carries every settlement and out-of-square wall in the house straight into the new stone. Granite and quartz are both available, and the choice is usually made alongside the door finish so the whole kitchen is decided as one scheme.
Kitchens designed, built and installed by Ryan Welker for customers across the Tampa Bay service area. See more completed projects.
Yes. Tampa is one of the fourteen Florida communities Trusted Choice Cabinets serves, along with Land O' Lakes, Lutz, Odessa, Wesley Chapel, New Port Richey, Connerton, Trinity, Dade City, Brandon, Carrollwood, Westchase, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Call 813-767-7535 to set up a free in-home consultation.
Yes. Bungalow kitchens in Seminole Heights, Tampa Heights and Hyde Park are some of the most interesting work we do, because the rooms are small and every inch has to be planned. Cabinet work inside the house does not usually touch the exterior, but if your home is in a designated historic district it is always worth checking with the City of Tampa before any work that changes the building envelope.
Usually, yes, and it is the change that makes the biggest difference in older Tampa homes. What is inside the bulkhead decides how involved it gets — sometimes it is empty, sometimes it carries ductwork or a vent line. That gets checked at the in-home consultation, before the design is drawn, so the 3D rendering you approve reflects what is actually achievable.
Yes. Granite and quartz countertops are part of the service, and they are templated after the new cabinets are set and levelled so the stone matches what was actually installed rather than what was there before.
There is no honest flat answer, because the number depends on the size of the kitchen, the door style, the box construction and whether countertops are included. What we can promise is that the figure you get after the in-home consultation is a real one based on your kitchen, not a headline price that grows once the work starts. The consultation and the 3D design are free.
A full kitchen typically runs two to four weeks from approved design to final install. That covers design approval, cabinet fabrication, removal of the old cabinets and installation. Approving the 3D rendering first shortens the timeline, because it removes revisions that would otherwise happen mid-build.
Yes. The design stage is a free in-home consultation and a ProKitchen 3D rendering that you approve before a single cabinet is ordered. Nothing gets ordered until you are happy with it.
All-wood construction with no particle board. Trusted Choice Cabinets partners with established cabinet manufacturers to offer a range of styles, finishes and price points.
Ryan Welker does it himself. The person on site already knows the drawing, because he is the one who made it, so nothing is handed off between a designer and an install crew.
Tampa homeowners have a lot of contractors to choose from, and the complaint we hear most often about the bigger operations is that the person who designed the kitchen and the person who installed it never spoke to each other. Measurements get handed off, assumptions get made, and the homeowner finds out on install day.
That cannot happen here, because it is the same person at both ends. Ryan measures your kitchen, draws it, orders it and fits it. When something in a 1950s wall is not where the drawing assumed, he is the one who finds it and the one who already knows what the design was trying to do.
The result is a kitchen that fits the house you own rather than a standard layout forced into it. Contact us today at +1 813-767-7535 for kitchen cabinet renovation in Tampa.
Tampa is a large city and the work is spread right across it. Recent kitchens have taken us into the bungalow streets of Seminole Heights and Tampa Heights, the block homes of Town 'N' Country and West Tampa, the older established parts of South Tampa, and the newer construction of New Tampa. If you are inside the city and you are not sure whether your neighbourhood is covered, it almost certainly is — call and ask.