Remodeling Built for Annandale Homes
Annandale sits about five miles east of our Fairfax showroom, an easy drive out Little River Turnpike (Route 236). It is a community defined by its mid-century roots - block after block of 1950s through 1970s brick colonials and ramblers in neighborhoods like Broyhill Crest, Hillbrook, Sleepy Hollow, Camelot, and Wakefield. These are solidly built homes with good bones, but the floor plans were drawn for a different era: compact kitchens walled off from the dining and living rooms, and bathrooms sized for the assumptions of fifty or sixty years ago.
That housing stock is exactly the kind of work Kitchen Design Center does best. When a homeowner near Annandale Community Park or off Columbia Pike asks us to open up a closed galley kitchen, reroute a load path, or carve a usable primary bath out of a tight 1960s footprint, we are working with layouts our designers see across the Mason District every week. We design and build the project, supply the cabinetry, and fabricate the countertops - so the people planning your kitchen are the same people accountable for how it comes together.
Kitchen Remodeling in Annandale
The single most common request we hear from Annandale homeowners is some version of “open it up.” The brick colonials and ramblers along Braddock Road and the streets branching off Little River Turnpike were almost all built with the kitchen as a separate, enclosed room. Removing or reworking a wall between the kitchen and the adjacent living space transforms how these homes feel and function, and it is the heart of most of our Annandale kitchen projects.
A full kitchen remodel with us typically means rethinking the layout from the studs out: relocating the sink and range for a better work triangle, adding an island or a peninsula where the old wall used to be, improving lighting, and updating the cabinetry and counters to match. Because ramblers put everything on one level and many Annandale colonials have basements below, we pay close attention to plumbing and structural realities before we commit to a plan - so the design you approve is one we can actually build. The result keeps the character of the home while giving it the open, connected kitchen that mid-century floor plans never had.
Bathroom Remodeling in Annandale
Bathrooms in Annandale’s older homes tend to share the same story as the kitchens: small, original, and ready for an update. We remodel hall baths, powder rooms, and primary bathrooms - replacing dated tubs and surrounds, reworking vanities and storage, retiling wet areas, and modernizing fixtures and lighting.
In a 1960s rambler or colonial, the challenge is often making a modest footprint feel larger and work harder. That might mean swapping a cramped tub-shower combo for a roomier walk-in shower, choosing a vanity that adds storage without crowding the space, or selecting tile and surfaces that brighten a windowless interior bath. Where homeowners want to expand, we look at borrowing space from an adjacent closet or hallway - common moves in these floor plans. The goal is a bathroom that fits how your household actually uses it, built to last in a home you plan to keep.
Countertops & Cabinets
Countertops and cabinets are where an Annandale kitchen or bath finally comes to life, and both are core to what we do.
For countertops, we fabricate and install quartz, granite, and marble, and we carry trusted lines including Cambria, Silestone, MSI, and Caesarstone. Quartz is a frequent choice for busy Annandale kitchens because it is durable and low-maintenance, while granite and marble bring natural stone character for homeowners who want it. Seeing full slabs and large samples in person - rather than a two-inch chip - makes a real difference in choosing a surface you will live with for years.
For cabinetry, we offer both custom and semi-custom cabinets as well as cabinet refacing, with lines including J&K, StarMark, Fabuwood, and Waypoint. Refacing is worth a serious look in many Annandale homes: when the existing cabinet boxes are sound - as they often are in these well-built mid-century houses - new doors, drawer fronts, and finishes can give the kitchen a completely fresh look without a full teardown. When a layout needs to change or the boxes are past their life, new custom or semi-custom cabinetry lets us reconfigure the space exactly the way the remodel calls for.
Visiting Our Fairfax Showroom From Annandale
The best way to start is to see and touch the materials. Our showroom is a quick trip from Annandale: head west on Little River Turnpike (Route 236) and continue toward Fairfax - roughly five miles in all - to Kitchen Design Center at 11217 Lee Highway, Unit E, Fairfax, VA 22030. Homeowners coming from the Columbia Pike or Braddock Road side of Annandale will find it a straightforward drive.
In the showroom you can compare cabinet door styles and finishes from our J&K, StarMark, Fabuwood, and Waypoint lines side by side, view countertop options from Cambria, Silestone, MSI, and Caesarstone, and talk through your layout with a designer who knows Annandale’s housing. We are open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To plan a visit or set up a free design consultation, call us at (703) 244-1220. Whether you are reconfiguring a Broyhill Crest kitchen or updating a bath in Sleepy Hollow, we are glad to help you think it through.