Home Remodeling · Mercer Island · Seattle · Eastside
Remodeling that holds together — in Seattle and on the Eastside.
Most houses around here don’t need a new brochure. They need a kitchen that works, a bathroom that doesn’t leak, and someone who will open the wall and say what is actually going on before anyone starts tearing more out. Baklinski Home Improvement has been that kind of remodeler since 2020: family-owned, based on Mercer Island, and set up to take kitchens, bathrooms, structural repairs, and the whole-home work that ties them together.
We work within about 25 miles of Mercer Island, including Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and Mercer Island.
What a remodel usually includes
What a remodel usually includes
A remodel here is rarely just one pretty room. The work that lasts is the work that starts with the structure, the moisture, and the layout — then finishes with tile, cabinets, and trim that belong in the same house.
Kitchens.
Layout, cabinetry, counters, lighting, and the plumbing and electrical that have to move with them. See our kitchen remodeling page, including kitchens in Seattle.
Bathrooms.
Walk-in showers, vanities, tile, and the water-management details people don’t see. See bathroom remodeling, plus our city pages for Seattle and Kirkland.
The work behind the wall.
Dry rot, framing, load-bearing openings, and foundation-adjacent repairs. That work has its own page: structural repair.
The smaller list.
Doors, drywall, trim, fixtures, and punch-list items can live on handyman services when they are not part of a larger remodel.
We don’t split a house among three anonymous crews and hope the details meet. Your rooms stay on one team.
Homes on both sides of the lake
Homes on both sides of the lake
Seattle remodels often start in mid-century and early houses where a kitchen or bath has been patched more than once. Eastside work — Bellevue, Kirkland, Mercer Island — is just as often a house that has already been added onto, and the new work has to respect what is already there. We plan the job in the house, not from a catalog.
Permit rules differ by city. Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections issues construction permits for additions and alterations, and a fixture (STFI) path can apply to some non-structural kitchen or bath work — we never promise a job will qualify until we have seen it (Seattle SDCI, construction permit — addition or alteration). Bellevue often uses a Building (BT) single-family remodel permit for non-structural work, filed through MyBuildingPermit.com, and commonly includes a pre-construction inspection (City of Bellevue, single-family remodel permit). Kirkland explains when a permit is required; like-for-like fixture replacement may be exempt, while alterations generally need a permit through MyBuildingPermit.com (City of Kirkland, Do you need a permit?). We walk that path with you.
How we work
How we work
You stay in the house. We look first, tell you what we found, and put a plan in writing before demo. If a wall has to come down or rot has to come out, you’ll see it. Then we build, we get inspections signed off when the city requires them, and we leave the job tidy every day. Every remodel carries a 1-year labour/workmanship warranty. If something we built isn’t right, we come back.
Recent work
Recent work
Let’s start with the room that’s been bugging you.
A person answers and sets the next step.
See a planning range — a low-to-high guide, not a quote.
Questions
Questions, answered straight.
Also see kitchens, bathrooms, structural repair, handyman services, Our Work, the gallery, The Promise, and contact.
Related finished work: the Bellevue deck and wood patio cover project.