Your layout gets decided in the first week, and you live with it every day after that. An island needs about 42 to 48 inches of open space on every side. Any tighter and it gets in your way instead of helping. If your kitchen cannot spare that room, a peninsula gives you the same seating and prep space and only needs a walkway on two or three sides. Lighting and venting are the two things people trim first and miss later. Both go in while the walls are still open, so we sort them out early.

Storage is where a custom kitchen really pays off. Stock cabinets only come in set sizes, so in an older home with walls that are not quite square, you end up with filler pieces and corners you can never reach. When we build to your measurements, you get a pantry where that dead corner used to be, drawers deep enough for your big pots, and cabinets that go all the way to the ceiling. The door style is what you see every day. How the box is built is what keeps everything working fifteen years from now.

Picking a countertop really comes down to how you cook. Quartz never needs sealing and shrugs off spills, which makes it easy to live with when the kitchen is busy. Granite handles heat well and just needs sealing once or twice a year. Marble is the prettiest of the three and the fussiest, since lemon, wine, and vinegar will leave a mark. We make and install all three, and we always suggest coming in to pick your own slab, because no two look alike.

Abdullah M. Ghabayen is the founder, president, and operations manager of AMG Proline. He is an engineer by training, a licensed general contractor by trade, and an interior designer by practice, with nearly thirty years in construction that started in his family’s glass shop in 1996.

In 2025 he was inducted into Marquis Who’s Who and featured on the cover of Millennium Magazine, Seventeenth Edition, in the Architecture, Construction and Real Estate section. You can read the full Marquis feature here.

That combination is rare, and it is the whole argument for working with us. Design firms draw spaces they will never build. Contractors build spaces somebody else drew. Abdullah does both, which means the design you approve is one he already knows how to execute, at a price he already stands behind.

He is also on your job site. Most remodeling companies hand you to a salesperson at the estimate and to a subcontractor after you sign. At AMG Proline, the person who designs your kitchen, prices it, and answers for it is the same person who owns the company.

Inspire. Design. Build.

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