Kitchen Remodeling in Cape Cod, MA

Thirty years of kitchens from Brewster to Provincetown, designed and built by the people who answer the phone.

On Cape Kitchens has been designing and building kitchens on Cape Cod for more than 30 years, working out of a design office and showroom at Unit #7, 4250 State Highway in North Eastham. We serve the Lower and Outer Cape most intensively — Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet — and we work across the rest of the Cape as projects warrant.

Owner and designer Vern Hatt is a Massachusetts licensed and insured contractor (Construction Supervisor License #CS62739, Home Improvement Contractor License #177590). He designs the kitchen, writes the proposal, orders the materials and runs the job. There is no salesperson handing you off to a project manager who hands you off to a crew, which is the single biggest structural difference between how we work and how most kitchen companies do.

This page covers what a Cape Cod kitchen remodel involves generally. If you want the specifics for your town — the historic district that applies, the water situation, the local housing stock — the town pages further down go into that in detail.

Kitchens here face conditions that inland kitchens do not, and a remodel that ignores them ages badly.

• Salt air. Near the water, airborne salt attacks hardware and fixture finishes. Marine-grade stainless and solid brass hold up; inexpensive plated finishes do not last.
• Seasonal occupancy. An enormous share of Cape housing sits closed and unconditioned for months. That humidity cycle moves wood, which is why we favour plywood cabinet boxes and stable door construction on seasonal properties.
• Wells and septic. Much of the Outer Cape is on private wells and Title V septic. Water hardness and iron affect sinks, fixtures and filtration needs, and septic capacity is a real constraint on larger projects.
• Small original footprints. Most Cape houses were built with kitchens sized for a different way of living. The design work is usually about getting far more function out of the same square footage, not about adding square footage.
• Historic districts. Six towns fall under the Old King's Highway Regional Historic District, several others have local districts under Chapter 40C, and Provincetown and Chatham have their own arrangements. In every case interior kitchen work is unreviewed — it is exterior changes that need certificates.
• The season. Trade availability tightens dramatically in summer and traffic makes deliveries slow. The Cape's real construction season is October through May.

We carry cabinetry from U.S. Cabinet Depot, Forevermark and Versiniti Custom Cabinets, along with JSI vanities for bathroom work, and we install granite, quartz and solid-surface countertops. The Fall 2026 line we are showing in the North Eastham showroom is Haven Sage, a muted green that has been drawing steady interest from homeowners who want colour that will not date.

You do not have to take the whole package. Plenty of Cape Cod homeowners and general contractors come to us for design and cabinetry supply only. Others want a single contract covering everything from demolition to the last piece of trim. We price it either way.

Consultations are free, whether at your Cape Cod home or at our showroom at Unit #7, 4250 State Highway in North Eastham, next to Ace Hardware. Bring photos and measurements if you have them; if you do not, we will take them.

Or send us an email to schedule  ·  Monday–Friday 8:00 AM–5:00 PM, Saturday by appointment