Burwood sits in the heart of the Inner West and has a housing mix that runs from grand to high-rise. There are large Federation and interwar homes on the established streets, plenty of solid double-brick family houses, and a major cluster of newer apartment towers around the station and shopping precinct. The period homes often have generous but dated kitchens cut off in their own room, where the job is modernising and opening up to the living areas while keeping the home's character. The apartments tend to have compact developer kitchens with flat-pack cabinetry where the win is a smarter layout, better storage and a quality stone benchtop within a fixed footprint. We are a family-run joinery based in Liverpool servicing Sydney-wide, and Burwood is part of our regular Inner West run across 12 years in the trade. The advantage we bring on both house and apartment jobs is one team across cabinetry, tiling, plumbing, electrical and painting, so you are not coordinating five separate contractors, which is especially handy in a busy strata building with one shared lift. We measure, then give you a fixed-price quote with no provisional sums, so the number is real from the start. As a licensed NSW contractor the trade work is signed off properly and we provide the documentation strata managers ask for. Because we buy appliances at trade cost, your budget goes further on stone and cabinetry. Most Burwood kitchens are on site for around three weeks, start to finish.
We come to your Burwood home or apartment, measure up and check the plumbing and power. You get one fixed price covering every trade with no provisional sums. On a period home we look closely behind the walls, and in an apartment we confirm lift access and strata work hours first.
We settle the layout, door finishes, benchtop stone, handles and appliances, then order at trade cost. Once you sign off the design is fixed. On a Federation home we make sure the finishes suit the era, and in a compact apartment the planning makes the tight footprint work.
Cabinetry is built while we coordinate the trades in order. One in-house team means the plumber, electrician, tiler and painter are all ours. You get a firm start date and a realistic finish, usually around three weeks whether it is a house or an apartment.
We remove the old kitchen, run new services, fit cabinetry and stone, tile, paint and connect appliances, working carefully around heritage detail where it matters. We clean up, protect common areas in apartment buildings, walk you through everything and hand over your warranty paperwork.
Burwood kitchens generally run from $20,000 to $60,000, with most jobs in the $25,000 to $45,000 mid-range. The number depends on whether it is a large period-home kitchen or a compact apartment, your stone choice, laminate versus two-pac doors, and how much the layout changes. Opening up a closed kitchen in a Federation home costs more than a like-for-like update in a unit. We give you one fixed-price quote with no provisional sums, which protects you on older homes where things can hide behind the plaster. Buying appliances at trade cost helps the budget go further on benchtops and cabinetry, whatever the home.
Once cabinets are manufactured and we start on site, a typical Burwood kitchen takes around three weeks. We begin with demolition, rough in plumbing and electrical, fit cabinetry, template and install the stone, tile the splashback, paint and connect appliances. Period homes can add a little time because of the surprises old construction throws up, and apartments may be shaped by strata work-hour rules, but the overall timeline holds. The lead time before we start depends on cabinet manufacture and your finishes. Running one in-house team across every trade keeps the job moving rather than stalling while we wait on outside subcontractors.
Yes, and Burwood needs both. The grand Federation and interwar homes here often have generous kitchens cut off in their own room, so we open them up to the living areas while keeping the home's character with door profiles and finishes that suit the era, checking the wall and services before we quote. The newer apartments around the station are tighter, so the focus is squeezing maximum bench and storage from a compact footprint without touching the waterproofed wet areas, plus handling strata work hours and lift bookings. As a licensed NSW contractor we provide the paperwork strata managers need and handle any structural work in a house properly.
We are a family-run business and you deal with the same people from quote to handover. Twelve years in, we are comfortable across Burwood's range, from grand period homes to compact strata apartments near the station. One team covers cabinetry, tiling, plumbing, electrical and painting, so you are not coordinating five contractors on either a heritage home or a unit with strata rules. You get a fixed-price quote with no provisional sums, trade-cost appliances, a roughly three-week build and a licensed NSW contractor backing the work. We are Liverpool-based but service Sydney-wide, and the Inner West is a regular run for us.
InsideOut Joinery & Renos is a family-run custom joinery and renovation business based in Liverpool, Sydney NSW 2170, serving homeowners Sydney-wide. Call 02 5000 0402 or email info@insideoutjoinery.au. One team covers every trade, with a typical 3-week turnaround, trade-cost appliances and 12 years of experience. Licensed contractor — licence 383725C, ABN 62 912 909 739.