Kitchen Remodeling in Xenia, OH 45385

Kitchen Remodeling Fairborn OH covers Xenia 45385 out of our Fairborn shop on Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, 12 minutes up US-68 from the Greene County Courthouse. Xenia is the county seat and most of our Xenia work routes through the same building regulation office we use for Fairborn permits, so we know the plan reviewer and the inspection calendar without guessing.

Xenia's kitchens tell a specific history. The April 1974 F5 tornado leveled a huge section of the city, and most of the housing stock west of Detroit Street and south of US-35 was rebuilt between 1975 and 1982, almost all one-story brick ranches on slab with 2x4 exterior walls and 100-amp panels. Those post-tornado homes share floor plans across whole blocks of the Shawnee Park neighborhood, and the original kitchens are 50 years old now, out of style, out of code, and finally ready for an update. We see a lot of those kitchens still with the original Formica counters and birch cabinets.

The older Xenia stock, mostly east of Detroit Street and in the historic downtown blocks around Church and Main, survived the tornado. Those homes are 1900s to 1930s brick with plaster walls, cast-iron drains and galley kitchens cut up by load-bearing walls. The remodel on those houses is a different animal: scope the plaster condition before touching it, plan on upgrading cast iron to PVC, and expect the permit reviewer to ask for a historic-district compliance note if the home is inside the Xenia Historic District overlay.