Kitchen Remodeling in Springfield, IL
A kitchen remodel goes better when cabinets, countertops, backsplash and flooring are decided as one project. Plan all four at the Sablotny Floors showroom in Jacksonville, about 35 miles west of Springfield on I-72. Our team then measures and installs in your Springfield kitchen.
No pressure. Just helpful guidance.
One Springfield Kitchen, Four Decisions Made in the Right Order
A kitchen remodel is really four purchases that have to fit each other: cabinets, countertops, backsplash tile and a floor. Planned as one project, they follow a sequence, and every decision narrows the next.
Layout and cabinets lead, because the cabinet plan fixes the footprint, the storage and where the sink and range sit. Start with cabinet layouts for Springfield houses of different ages. Countertops are second, since their shape follows the cabinet plan exactly, so read ahead on picking a countertop material for a Springfield kitchen. The backsplash is third, selected against the counter it will sit on, a step covered in backsplash and tile installation in Springfield houses. The floor is usually chosen last.
One exception is worth knowing early. If the new floor will run under the cabinets, or carry on into a dining room, hallway or living area, it has to be planned at the start even though it is picked near the end. That comes up often in Springfield.
Cabinets, Countertops and Backsplash, in That Order
Each card below opens the product page for one piece of the kitchen. For a Springfield remodel, read them in the order shown and treat each as a question to settle before you move on. The floor comes up further down because its timing depends on your house. For the overview, see what our kitchen remodeling service covers.
Kitchen Cabinets
Decide first whether the current layout works. If the sink, range and refrigerator are in sensible places, new cabinets can follow the same footprint and the project stays simpler. If the layout is the real complaint, this is the moment to redraw it, before a countertop or tile sample is ever picked up.
Kitchen Countertops
Countertops are chosen once the cabinet plan is settled, because that plan sets every run, corner and overhang. In a whole-kitchen project the useful question is less which material and more which cabinet color it sits on, how much pattern the room can carry, and what the backsplash will then have to match.
Backsplash Tile
The backsplash is the smallest surface and the one at eye level, so it is picked third, with the cabinet door and countertop sample both on the table. Decide how high the tile runs, what happens behind the range, and whether it stays quiet or carries the pattern the counters do not.
How Three Springfield House Types Change the Scope
Closed-Off Older Kitchens
In an early 1900s house near Washington Park or in Enos Park, the kitchen is usually a separate, compact room behind a doorway. The remodel is about fitting more into that footprint, and about the threshold, where the new floor meets whatever is in the next room, often original wood. To match it, see how solid and engineered hardwood differ.
Ranch and Split-Level Kitchens
A 1960s or 1970s ranch or split-level often still has its first cabinets and a peninsula dividing the kitchen from the dining area. The real question is the peninsula: keep it, reshape it or lose it. Changing it uncovers floor that was hidden, so flooring joins the plan on day one. See what luxury vinyl plank offers in a kitchen.
Newer Open-Plan Kitchens
By Koke Mill, Piper Glen, Panther Creek and Centennial Park, the kitchen is already open around a large island, and the layout rarely has to move. Scope here means upgrading builder finishes. The catch is the floor, which runs straight into the living area, so replacing it is a main-level decision. Start with which floors suit an open Springfield main level.
Living Through the Remodel, Step by Step
Two habits make a kitchen remodel easier to live with. First, settle every selection before anything is ordered, so the work is never waiting on a choice. Second, set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere in the house before the old one comes apart. Our design and planning help for whole-room projects runs through the four steps below.
One Showroom Visit
Bring your measurements and photos to Jacksonville and work through cabinets, countertops, backsplash and flooring in sequence, with real samples and a guide from our team. Nobody pushes you to decide that day.
Lock the Selections
We help you narrow each choice against the ones already made. When helpful, a virtual mockup can show all four selections at once in an image of your own Springfield kitchen, the surest way to catch a combination that only looked fine as separate samples. Nothing is ordered until every piece is settled.
Measure and Prepare
Our team measures your Springfield kitchen professionally. Ahead of the start you hear the schedule and the preparation list, which is your cue to empty the cabinets and get the temporary kitchen running.
Install, Then Walk Through
Our team installs the kitchen in your home. Expect the room to be out of use while that happens, which is why the coffee maker, microwave and a shelf of dishes should already be living elsewhere. When the last piece is in, we go through the completed kitchen with you, surface by surface.
What Stays, What Goes, and What We Handle
If you searched for kitchen remodel contractors in Springfield, here is plainly what Sablotny Floors does. We are a locally owned showroom that sells and installs four parts of a kitchen: cabinets, countertops, backsplash tile and flooring. Keeping a layout that already works keeps the project inside those four. If you are weighing bigger changes to the room itself, say so at the first visit. For projects beyond the kitchen, see the other remodeling work we do for Springfield homeowners.
- Cabinets, countertops, backsplash and flooring planned together
- Decisions taken in a sensible order
- Advice that fits the age of your Springfield house
- A mockup of all four selections when helpful
- Measured and installed in your Springfield kitchen by one team, then walked through with you
Not everything has to go. Appliances you like can stay, and the cabinet plan is drawn around their sizes. A sound floor that continues into other rooms may be worth keeping. Tell us what is staying before you fall for a sample, because each keeper narrows the choices. For a sense of results, see photos of completed kitchen and bath projects.
Pack the Whole Kitchen Before You Leave Springfield
A whole-kitchen visit covers four sets of choices, so it rewards preparation. Bring the room on paper: the length of every wall, the ceiling height, and where each window, door and appliance sits. Photograph the kitchen one wall at a time, plus the doorways into the rooms beside it, since the floor decision may reach that far.
Then bring the opinions. List which appliances are staying. Write down the three things about the current kitchen that irritate you most, because those steer the layout talk better than any style word. Add one or two pictures of kitchens you like.
Last, come as a pair if two of you will decide. A choice made with both people at the table does not have to be made again on a second trip down I-72. To know the room before you arrive, tour the showroom in 360 degrees from home.
Plan the Whole Springfield Kitchen in One Visit
Our Jacksonville showroom is on West Morton Avenue. Leaving the west side of Springfield, I-72 gets you there in roughly half an hour, and from downtown or the lake allow about 40 minutes. Book a whole-kitchen planning visit online, phone (217) 245-1571, or simply come in. Doors open at 7:00 AM on weekdays and 9:00 AM on Saturday, when we close at noon.
No pressure. Design guidance included.
Springfield Kitchen Remodeling Questions
Sablotny Floors remodels kitchens for Springfield, IL homeowners, handling the cabinets, countertops, backsplash tile and flooring as a single project. Selections are made at the showroom, 1685 W Morton Ave in Jacksonville, and our team then measures professionally and installs in your Springfield home. To describe your kitchen and arrange a visit, call (217) 245-1571.
No single number fits, because a kitchen remodel is four purchases in one. Cost follows the number of cabinets and how they are built, the countertop material and its area, how much wall gets tiled, and how far the new floor runs. Sablotny Floors measures your Springfield kitchen professionally and then quotes the project. Ask how quoting works at (217) 245-1571.
Yes, when the remodel involves more than one surface, because cabinets, counters, backsplash and floor can all be chosen against each other in one sitting. Sablotny Floors is about 35 miles west of Springfield, a straight run on I-72 that passes New Berlin. Plenty of Springfield visitors use the Saturday hours, 9:00 AM to noon. Phone (217) 245-1571 ahead and tell us what you are planning.
Bring wall lengths, the ceiling height, a photo of each wall and a list of the appliances that are staying. At Sablotny Floors the process opens with a guided showroom visit where the four selections are made in order. Professional measurement follows, scheduling and preparation are explained before work begins, our team installs, and you walk the finished kitchen with us. Get started at (217) 245-1571.
Yes, and it is often the sensible route. Ranches and split-levels of that era, found across Westchester and neighboring west side subdivisions, tend to have original kitchens whose layout still works. Sablotny Floors can replace the cabinets, countertops, backsplash and floor on the same footprint, or rework the peninsula if it gets in the way. Talk both versions over with us at (217) 245-1571.
There is no single rule, which is why the floor is planned first even though it is chosen last. When one floor continues from the kitchen into the living area, as in the newer west side homes around Panther Creek and Koke Mill, or when the cabinet footprint changes, the sequence is settled alongside the cabinet plan. Sablotny Floors works that out before anything is ordered. Ask about your floor at (217) 245-1571.
Work with the footprint you have and make the four selections do more inside it. Early 1900s houses near Washington Park and in Enos Park usually have compact kitchens set apart from the other rooms. Sablotny Floors can plan cabinets that use the wall height, keep the countertop and backsplash calm, and match the new floor to what it meets at the doorway. Describe the room to us at (217) 245-1571.