Coggin Brothers designs and supplies kitchen cabinets in Englewood, CO. We measure your kitchen in your home, build a 3D layout you can walk through on screen, help you choose the cabinetry line and finish, and place the order. The measure, the design, and the materials guidance cost nothing. Almost every kitchen in Englewood is a retrofit into a small post-war footprint rather than a blank slate, which is a specific design problem and the one this page is about. Our showroom is in Parker, about twenty minutes east, and we have supplied Front Range kitchens since 1993.
Englewood is roughly six and a half square miles and it filled in early. The original town grid around Broadway and Hampden was platted in the 1900s, the bungalows went up through the 1920s, and the rest of the city was covered by post-war ranches and minimal-traditional houses between 1946 and about 1960. There is no new subdivision anywhere in the city limits, because there is nowhere left to put one. That single fact sets the terms for cabinetry here: every job in Englewood is a remodel inside a footprint somebody else drew eighty years ago.
The typical Englewood post-war kitchen is small and, more to the point, it is interrupted. Eight by ten feet is common. What eats the room is not the square footage, it is the openings: a back door to the yard, a basement stair, a cased opening to the dining room and a hall door, all landing in the same four walls. Measure what is left and you frequently have eleven to thirteen linear feet of wall you can actually hang cabinetry on, and one of those walls has a window centered over the sink. Nothing about that is fixable by spending more money on doors. It is fixed by deciding, early and deliberately, what each of those thirteen feet is going to hold.
The second thing worth knowing before an Englewood quote is written is what the walls are. Houses from the 1920s through the early 1950s here are usually plaster over rock lath, which is thicker than drywall and softer at the corners. If a room was bumped out later, and a great many Englewood kitchens were, the addition is drywall and the two surfaces meet somewhere behind the base cabinets at slightly different depths. That is a scribe and filler question, and it is easy when it is measured beforehand and expensive when it is discovered on install day.
Englewood also holds a stock of low-rise condominium and apartment buildings along the Broadway corridor and near the CityCenter light rail station, and those kitchens are a different job again. They are galley layouts on a shared plumbing wall, which usually means the sink is staying exactly where it is, and the building will have its own rules about work hours, elevator use and where a dumpster can sit. We plan around all three rather than around them. And because the 80110 and 80113 zip codes reach past the city limits into parts of Cherry Hills Village, an Englewood address can just as easily be a large custom home as a 900-square-foot ranch. We do not assume which one we are walking into.
We come to your house, measure the room properly, and talk through what you want the space to do. In an Englewood kitchen the measure decides the project, because the usable wall is short enough that an inch matters. We check the walls for plumb and square, find where plaster meets drywall from a later addition, measure the swing of the basement door and the back door, and note where a run has to be shortened and filled rather than pushed tight to the wall. That half hour is what keeps a cabinet order from arriving an inch too long for the room it was built for.
We build a realistic 3D model of your kitchen so you can see the finished room before a single box is ordered. In a room this size it is the fastest way to settle the arguments that always come up: whether the range stays on the gas line where it already is, whether the refrigerator can move off the wall it is blocking, and what the run gains if the cased opening to the dining room gets narrowed by a foot instead of being left alone.
Door style, box construction, hardware, finish and price tier, explained in plain terms and matched to the house rather than to a catalog page. Our full cabinet design and supply service list spells out what is included at each stage.
This is where an Englewood kitchen is won or lost. When there are only twelve or thirteen linear feet to work with, the answer is not more cabinets, it is better ones: drawer banks instead of base doors so the back of the cabinet is reachable, a full-depth pantry cabinet doing the work a walk-in pantry does in a newer house, uppers carried to the ceiling once we have confirmed what is inside the soffit, and a shallower twelve-inch cabinet on the wall that cannot give up twenty-four. We would rather specify nine well-chosen cabinets than thirteen mediocre ones.
Post-war Englewood houses were usually built with one bathroom, framed to whatever width was left over, so a 30 or 36-inch stock vanity frequently leaves an odd gap on one side. That is the same filler and scribe problem as the kitchen and we specify it the same way, which is why the bathroom is worth walking through while we are already at the house.
We are a design and supply firm, not an installation company. After the order is placed we connect you with installers and countertop fabricators we have worked with for years. In an Englewood house that referral carries real weight, because scribing cabinetry into plaster is a skill, and so is working in a condo building that only allows deliveries through one elevator between nine and four.
We meet at your Englewood home or at the Parker showroom to talk through how the room needs to work, what you want to change, and what you would rather leave alone.
We measure the space, record every opening and where the walls are out of square, and build detailed 3D renderings so you can see the finished kitchen before committing to anything.
Visit the showroom on Singing Hills Road to choose cabinetry line, door style, finish and hardware with samples in your hands rather than on a screen.
We place the order and connect you with installers and countertop fabricators who work in older inner-suburb homes regularly.
Our design services are complimentary and we are upfront about what a project costs before you commit to it.
We drive to Englewood and measure your space at no charge.
See the finished kitchen or bath in 3D before you commit to anything.
Guidance on cabinetry lines, finishes, and hardware with every project.
Vetted local installation and countertop contacts, at no extra charge from us.
We partner with leading cabinetry manufacturers, and in Englewood the range matters for a specific reason. A short run of cabinetry is scrutinized far more closely than a long one, because there is less of it and you stand closer to all of it. Carrying several lines lets us put the money where it shows in a small kitchen, and lets us reach for a line that can be built to an odd opening when fillers would start to look like an apology.
Coggin Brothers is a family-owned cabinet dealer and design firm that has served Colorado for more than thirty years, with over 500 projects completed. We are based in Parker, which puts Englewood about twenty minutes away and well inside our regular working radius rather than at the edge of a service map.
We work with homeowners, contractors, and interior designers. Our background in home building and interior design is why the conversation tends to start with how the room works and not with a door sample. You can read more about our family and our history in Parker, or look through completed kitchen and cabinet projects in the gallery.
We are transparent about timelines, costs, and what is possible, and you will never face a hard sell from us. If you are comparing options across the south metro, our Littleton kitchen cabinet page covers the closest housing stock to Englewood’s, and our Centennial kitchen cabinet page, Highlands Ranch kitchen cabinet page, Lone Tree kitchen cabinet page and Castle Rock kitchen cabinet page cover the same process further out. Our cabinet design and supply services page explains what we do and do not handle. You can also book a free in-home measure directly.
No. The in-home measurement, the 3D design rendering, and the materials consultation are all complimentary, and that applies in Englewood exactly as it does in Parker. We do not ask for a deposit to come look at a kitchen.
That is the most common kitchen in Englewood and it is the one where design work pays for itself the fastest. The gain does not come from adding cabinets, because there is nowhere to add them. It comes from changing what the existing run holds: deep drawers in place of base cabinets with a shelf, one full-depth pantry cabinet, uppers taken to the ceiling, and a decision about which of the four openings is doing the least work. Sometimes narrowing a cased opening by a foot buys back a usable cabinet, and you can see exactly what that is worth in the 3D layout before anyone touches the wall.
Steel cabinets show up regularly in Denver-area post-war houses and they come out cleanly, but what is behind them is usually unfinished. They were often installed before the wall was fully painted and they hang differently than wood cabinetry, so the wall behind them needs patching and paint, and the run will not land on exactly the same lines. Worth knowing before you budget, and worth telling us at the measure so we specify with the actual wall surface in mind.
Often yes, and in a small Englewood kitchen it is one of the cheapest real gains available. The caveat is what is inside the soffit. A bulkhead in a house of this era can hide ductwork, a vent stack or wiring, and that has to be confirmed before we specify taller cabinets. Once it is confirmed, running the uppers up adds a full shelf of storage and makes an eight-foot ceiling read taller.
Yes, in two ways. The kitchen is almost certainly on a shared plumbing wall, so the sink is likely staying where it is and the design works around that rather than fighting it. And the building will have rules about delivery windows, elevator use and where a dumpster can sit. We would rather ask about those at the measure than have your installer find out on the first morning.
We do not. Coggin Brothers designs and supplies cabinetry. After your order is placed we refer you to installers and countertop fabricators we have worked with for years, so the install is handled by people who do it every day. In an older house that referral matters more than usual, because scribing cabinetry to plaster is a skill and not every installer has it.
Not for the first conversation. We can start at your house in Englewood. Most clients do visit the showroom at 475 Singing Hills Rd at the selection stage, because door samples and finishes look different in person than they do on a screen.
Yes. A large share of our work comes through contractors and interior designers, and we are comfortable slotting into a project that is already underway.
We serve the greater Denver metro and the Front Range, including Littleton, Centennial, Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills Village, Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Aurora, Elizabeth, Monument, and Denver.
No commitment required. Tell us about your Englewood kitchen and we will come measure it.
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