Kitchen remodeling in Westwood splits into two kinds of project: a unit in one of the Wilshire towers, or a house on the Period Revival streets near UCLA. The first is shaped by shared walls and building rules, the second by its age and its lot.
Best Top Kitchen takes on complete kitchen remodels only, coming in from our Santa Clarita base. Design, cabinetry, countertops, layout changes and installation are handled under one contract, with LADBS permits included.
High-Rise Units and Period Houses in Westwood
Westwood is mostly a neighborhood of multi-unit buildings. In ZIP 90024, which roughly covers it, 82.8% of housing units are in buildings of five or more units, 39.9% are in buildings of 50 or more, and only 12.7% are detached houses. The median build year is 1975.
A 1958 citywide height map opened Wilshire to high-rises, and the corridor holds residential buildings from the Wilshire Manor Apartments (1951) to Wilshire Terrace (1958), Wilshire Ardmore and Holmby Wilshire (both 1963). Condominium towers sit at the east end and office towers to the west. An intact group of 1930s to 1950s apartment buildings also survives near Midvale and Kelton avenues, southwest of campus.
The single-family side started in 1922 with the flats to the south. After UCLA's arrival was announced in 1925, model homes adapted Spanish Colonial Revival to match the campus, and through the late 1920s homes were almost all Spanish Colonial or Mediterranean Revival. North of Wilshire, streets follow the contours of the foothills, while south of it the grid is flat or gently sloping.
Holmby Westwood, University Crest and Comstock Hills
SurveyLA identified three residential historic districts here. Holmby Westwood has 1,044 properties from the late 1920s to the 1950s, about half American Colonial Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival, with Tudor, Monterey, French Norman and Ranch homes among the rest.
University Crest, west of campus between Sunset and Montana, was once marketed as "The Streets of Old Monterey" and holds 432 homes mostly from the 1930s to 1950s. Comstock Hills has 307 one- and two-story homes on sloping lots west of the Los Angeles Country Club.
All three are eligibility findings, not designations, and Holmby Westwood was evaluated for HPOZ status but is not on the City's list. That means no historic overlay review for a kitchen, though most owners still want the room to fit the house.
Kitchen Remodeling in Westwood, Tower or House
Each subsection below covers one part of a complete kitchen remodel. We do not take on any of them as a standalone job.
Wilshire Condo Towers and High-Rise Kitchens
A tower kitchen is remodeled inside fixed limits: shared walls, plumbing risers and venting paths the unit cannot easily change. We start by reviewing your building's contractor rules, then plan a luxury kitchen remodel that works with the sink and range locations the risers allow. Elevator time, work hours and debris removal go into the schedule before demolition.
Holmby Westwood Period Revival Homes
A Spanish Colonial or American Colonial Revival house from the late 1920s or 1930s deserves a kitchen that respects its proportions. Our historic kitchen remodeling approach keeps trim, window placement and cabinet styles in step with the house. While walls are open, we check older wiring and plumbing and replace what the new kitchen needs.
Custom Cabinetry for University Crest and Comstock Hills
University Crest homes run from Dutch Colonial and Monterey Revival to Minimal Traditional and Ranch, and Comstock Hills spans the mid-1920s through the 1950s. We build custom kitchen cabinets to suit each, from painted inset doors in a Colonial house to plainer fronts in a postwar Ranch. Cabinets are built only within a full kitchen remodel.
Open-Concept Layouts in Condos and 1950s Houses
Opening the kitchen to the living room is a common goal in both tower units and postwar houses. In a condo the building usually has to approve wall changes, and some walls carry structure or shared lines; in a house, a load-bearing wall needs a beam and engineering. Our open-concept kitchen remodel work covers the plans and LADBS permits either way.
Quartz Countertops and Natural Stone
In a tower, slabs have to fit the service elevator, which can decide between one long piece and a seamed run. Quartz is a practical choice for a busy condo kitchen, while quartzite and marble suit a Period Revival house in Holmby Westwood. Kitchen countertops are templated after the cabinets go in, as one stage of the remodel.
Westwood Permits, Specific Plans and Fire Zones
Westwood is part of the City of Los Angeles, so LADBS issues building permits and City Planning handles the area's specific plans from its West LA counter. They include the Westwood Village and North Westwood Village plans, the Westwood Community Design Review Board and Multi-Family plans, and the Wilshire-Westwood Scenic Corridor plan.
We check whether your parcel falls under any of them before design starts. Westwood has no HPOZ, but LAFD lists parts of it in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. On a mapped parcel, an added window or kitchen bump-out follows the Wildland-Urban Interface Code (Title 24, Part 7), in force since it replaced CBC Chapter 7A on January 1, 2026.
