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If you remodel kitchens in Los Angeles for any length of time, you eventually run into the same argument on every job. The homeowner says, “We’re just changing cabinets. No walls. No plumbing. Why would the city care?” The contractor looks nervous and says, “It depends what else we’re touching.” Both are partly right, and that is where people get into trouble. Los Angeles has very specific rules about when you need a permit for kitchen cabinets and when you do not. At

Walk into ten open houses in Los Angeles and you will see ten different approaches to cabinetry. From sleek, frameless European kitchens in the Hollywood Hills to classic shaker in a 1920s Spanish in Hancock Park, the cabinets quietly tell you who the seller is and what they think their home is worth. Custom cabinets sit at the very top of that spectrum. They are expensive, slow, and fussy. They can also be the detail that pushes a buyer from “nice house” to “we have to