Kitchens, bathrooms, basements and whole-home remodels for Kuna homeowners. One locally owned team handles the design, the City of Kuna permit and inspection process, and the build — start to finish.
Kitchens and bathrooms are what Kuna homeowners ask us about most, and they are the rooms where a builder-grade finish shows its age first. We open up kitchens, move walls where the structure allows, reconfigure primary bathrooms, and finish basements into the rooms a growing family actually needs. Structural, plumbing, electrical and mechanical changes are permitted through the City of Kuna and inspected as the work goes, so nothing is hidden behind drywall that should not be.
Kuna is not an old town with old houses. It counted 24,011 residents in the 2020 Census and the Census Bureau ranked it the eleventh fastest-growing city in the United States among cities over 20,000 for the year to July 2025. That changes what a remodel here usually is.
In August 2026 alone the city logged 626 building permits, including 92 new homes and several hundred plumbing, electrical and mechanical permits — and exactly one filed under “remodel.” Kitchen and bathroom work in Kuna moves through trade permits on homes that are only a few years old. The typical job is not gutting a 1970s ranch; it is taking a house that was finished to a builder’s standard and finishing it to yours.
You can see the pattern in the developments themselves. The city’s permit log for the month shows Falcon Crest, Ashton Estates, Memory Ranch and Paloma Ridge on their seventh and eighth phases, with Linrock, Sabinos Rocky Ridge, Valor Golf Village, Bellaro Springs, Journeys End and Crimson Point still building. The first phases of those neighborhoods are now old enough that owners are ready to change the kitchen, and that is most of the remodeling work in Kuna.
Kuna has its own Building Department at City Hall, 751 W. 4th Street, open Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm. Permits and inspections are handled through the city’s online portal rather than over the counter. Two rules shape every remodel schedule: inspection requests received by 4 pm are scheduled for the next business day, and for an occupied home an adult must be present with the approved plans on site. A permit must be picked up within 180 days of issue and the work must begin within 180 days, or it is void. The city builds to the 2018 International Residential Code. We sequence the trades around those inspection windows so a kitchen is not sitting open waiting on a rough-in sign-off.
Unlike some neighboring towns, Kuna owns and operates both its water and its wastewater systems. The Water Division runs its own wells and storage tanks and supplies pressurized irrigation water alongside drinking water; the Wastewater Division runs two treatment facilities, including a membrane bioreactor plant on the north side. For a remodel this matters in a practical way: adding a bathroom, moving a kitchen sink or relocating a laundry is a plumbing permit with the city, and a property still on septic that connects to city sewer must abandon the septic system to Idaho DEQ requirements. See the City’s wastewater page for current guidance.
The city’s thresholds are broader than many homeowners expect. According to the City of Kuna’s residential building guidance, a permit is required for:
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These reflect the City’s published guidance at the time of writing. Thresholds and fees change; we confirm current requirements with the Building Department on every project rather than working from memory.
Because we already know how this city works. We know which rooms need a permit and which do not, when to book the inspection so the schedule holds, and how to keep a kitchen usable while the new one goes in. We are locally owned, we work across the Treasure Valley, and Kuna is inside our regular service area.
And we will tell you the truth about a job before we start it — including when a wall cannot move, or when a change is not worth what it costs to make.
Kitchens, baths and living spaces we have finished across the Treasure Valley. Tap any image to view it larger. Tap any image to view it larger.
Usually yes. The City requires a permit for improvements to an existing residence and for mechanical, electrical and plumbing installations, which covers most kitchen and bathroom work. Purely cosmetic changes — paint, flooring, cabinet fronts — that touch no plumbing, wiring, ductwork or structure generally do not. We pull the permit and book the inspections; you do not have to.
We do — along with bathrooms, basements and whole-home remodels. One locally owned team handles the design, the City of Kuna permit and inspection process, and the construction. If you want to talk through a specific house, that is the fastest way to get real answers: get in touch.
Yes, and it is one of the most common requests here. A finished basement is permitted work because it changes the home’s electrical, plumbing and usually its mechanical systems. Under the 2018 International Residential Code the city adopts, any bedroom below grade needs a code-compliant emergency escape opening, which we design in from the start rather than cut in afterwards.
Through the City’s online permit portal. Requests in by 4 pm are scheduled for the next business day. For an occupied home an adult must be present, and a complete set of approved plans must be on site. A permit must be picked up within 180 days of issue and work must begin within 180 days, or it is void.
Inside the city limits, almost certainly. Kuna owns and operates both, including pressurized irrigation water. Moving or adding plumbing in a remodel is a plumbing permit with the city, and a property still on septic that connects to sewer must abandon the septic system to Idaho DEQ requirements.
Remodeling is one of four things we build here. If your project is bigger than the rooms you have, these are the pages for it.
Need more room without leaving the home you love? Kuna lots often allow building out rather than up. Additions in Kuna
From a bare lot in one of Kuna’s growing subdivisions to the keys in your hand. Custom homes in Kuna
Siding, windows, decks, patio covers and doors — the outside work that also needs a Kuna permit. Exterior work in Kuna
We remodel homes all over the Treasure Valley.
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