A fixed-price kitchen project from our Plano-based DFW team serving University Park homeowners, with designers, project leads, and tradespeople who finish on the day they said they would. Eleven years, 5,875 projects, one promise: your quote is your price.
A full kitchen remodel in University Park typically runs $85,000 to $300,000, reflecting the Park Cities luxury market: custom cabinetry, stone counters, professional-grade appliances, and the detailed finish carpentry these Colonial, Tudor, and Mediterranean homes demand. UHS works on a fixed-price model and backs the build with a 3-year workmanship warranty. Permits for the work are issued by the City of University Park Community Development Department, which also handles the plumbing, electrical, and mechanical permits a kitchen touches plus contractor registration and inspections. A major city-specific cost driver here is age: with a large share of homes built before 1950 around SMU, opening up a closed-off original kitchen often means re-routing decades-old wiring and plumbing and reworking load paths in plaster-and-lath walls, which adds structural and trade work that a newer suburban kitchen would not require. For a line-item look at where the money goes, see our DFW home remodel cost guide.
University Park kitchens carry a particular challenge: they sit inside fully built-out homes that grew up around SMU in the 1910s and 1920s, with roughly a quarter of the housing stock predating 1950. In Colonial, Tudor, and Mediterranean homes around Volk Estates, Caruth Hills, and SMU Heights, the original kitchen is often a small, closed-off service room walled away from the dining and living areas. UHS Remodeling has completed 5,875+ projects across DFW since 2014, and in University Park that experience goes toward opening those compartmentalized layouts, integrating period millwork and casework that honors a Tudor or Mediterranean home, and upgrading the wiring and plumbing buried in early-20th-century walls. Because lots here are land-locked and valuable, most owners renovate to stay in HPISD rather than relocate, so the kitchen has to last and look the part.
We remodel kitchens across University Park, including the estate homes of Volk Estates, Caruth Hills, and SMU Heights near the SMU campus.
“The University Park kitchens we love most are the ones where the cabinet, counter, and lighting decisions are made together — not three separate buys. That sequence is why our University Park kitchens look settled the day we hand them over.”
All ranges include design, materials, labor, permits, and 3-year warranty. Sourced against NARI Cost vs. Value 2025 regional benchmarks.
Your design lead, May N., personally guides cabinet, countertop, and tile selections for your kitchen.
We serve kitchen remodeling across nearby DFW communities. See our kitchen remodeling in Highland Park, Dallas, and Richardson.
Sourced from NARI Cost vs. Value 2025, NKBA Kitchen Design Standards, ENERGY STAR, and 11 years of fielding the same calls in University Park. Looking for ballpark numbers? Try our cost calculator.
