Burbank Kitchen Remodel And Bath Co has spent 18 years on the kind of homes that make this stretch of the San Fernando Valley what it is: a post-war ranch house built for a Lockheed family, a 1930s Magnolia Park bungalow whose kitchen has not moved a wall since it was built, a Rancho backyard about to become an ADU. Tal and Jacob founded the firm together in 2008 out of Burbank's Magnolia Park area, at 1006 Magnolia Blvd, and they built it around this one independent city on purpose — because the postwar and bungalow stock here, the state's ADU boom, and Burbank's own building department all reward two remodelers who already know exactly which office to call. We run as a design-build firm: one team from the free in-home consultation and 3D design through the written estimate and the finished build. What follows is the plain account of who Tal and Jacob are, and why 18 years in this specific city counts for more than it sounds.
How Tal and Jacob Started, and Why They Stayed in Burbank
Tal and Jacob set up together in Burbank's Magnolia Park area in 2008, a few blocks off Magnolia Boulevard's shopping district, and made an early decision that has shaped everything since: know one independent city properly rather than spread thin across the whole San Fernando Valley. They started with kitchen and bath remodels in the bungalow blocks and post-war ranch homes of the Magnolia Park and Chandler/Cabrini districts, then followed the work out to Toluca Lake's older estates, North Hollywood's bungalow-and-infill mix, and Glendale's Craftsman and hillside stock. Eighteen years on, the underlying job has barely changed even as the requests have: dated kitchens, single-bathroom homes, and deep postwar lots ready for an ADU, remodeled by two owners who still show up on site.
The Homes Are the Reason the Work Exists
Burbank's housing stock is not incidental to what Tal and Jacob do — it is the whole demand. Block after block of the city is post-World War II ranch and minimal-traditional tract homes, built through the 1940s and 50s for the Lockheed Aircraft workforce and the growing studio industry, sitting alongside 1920s–40s California and Spanish Colonial Revival bungalows concentrated in Magnolia Park. Those are exactly the homes that reward a proper kitchen or single-bath renovation rather than a teardown — dated layouts, original cabinetry, and single-vanity bathrooms that have not been touched since the tract was built. Add the larger traditional and estate-scale homes toward the Rancho equestrian district and the hillside houses climbing into the Burbank Hills along the Verdugo Mountains, and you have a market weighted toward steady, mid-size remodeling work rather than teardown-and-rebuild.
Two Owners, One City, One Building Department
Burbank incorporated as an independent city on July 8, 1911 and has run its own permitting ever since — the City of Burbank Community Development Department's Building Division, not the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety that governs a neighborhood like North Hollywood next door, and not the separate department across the line in Glendale. Tal and Jacob pull permits through that Burbank office directly, on every project inside city limits, working under the California Building Standards Code (Title 24) with Burbank's local amendments, CALGreen, and the state Energy Code. Knowing one department's plan-check process and typical turnaround, rather than guessing across three different jurisdictions, is a direct byproduct of staying in one city for 18 years.
The Media Capital Shapes Who We Work For
Burbank has been the Media Capital of the World since Warner Bros. opened its studio here in 1928 and Walt Disney moved his in 1940, and Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Cartoon Network Studios both call the city home today. That concentration of creative-industry employers means a large share of Tal and Jacob's clients work irregular studio hours and want a design process built around that reality — a free consultation scheduled around a production calendar, a written scope they can review between shoots, and two owners who answer specific material questions rather than a generic sales pitch. It is a different clientele than a purely residential suburb, and 18 years of working the Media District has made that difference familiar rather than a surprise.
Valley Heat Is Real, and It Shapes the Work
Burbank sits in the hot, dry inland San Fernando Valley, with none of the coastal marine layer that keeps a beach city cooler in summer — triple-digit highs are routine, and there is no salt air to plan around instead. That climate pushes attic and wall insulation, dual-pane low-E glazing, HVAC and heat-pump upgrades, and Title 24 energy compliance directly into the scope of kitchen, addition and whole-home projects far more often than a coastal remodel would need. Tal and Jacob build that reality into every design from the consultation forward rather than treating it as an afterthought once the drywall is already up.
Matching the Right Owner and the Right Trade to the Home
Tal and Jacob coordinate the trades they work with rather than sending a single fixed crew to every job, and the point is fit. Custom cabinetry in a Magnolia Park bungalow kitchen, tile-setting a curbless walk-in shower, hardwood flooring across a whole-home remodel, and framing a garage-conversion ADU in a Rancho backyard are different skill sets, so the right specialist goes on the right phase of the right home. The through-line is the design-build process holding it together — one scope, one schedule, one written price agreed before demolition, and either Tal or Jacob personally accountable for it start to finish.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long have Tal and Jacob actually been remodeling in Burbank?
Since 2008 — the year Tal and Jacob founded the company together out of the Magnolia Park area, which makes 2026 their 18th year working the same stretch of the San Fernando Valley. That length of time matters less as a number to advertise than as working knowledge of the housing stock: 18 years means the two of them can usually place a Burbank home's era from the driveway — a post-war ranch built for a Lockheed family, a 1930s Magnolia Park bungalow, a Rancho equestrian property — and know roughly what a remodel will run into once the walls open. That is the entire reason the firm was built around one city rather than chasing scattered jobs across Los Angeles County from the start.
Who are Tal and Jacob, exactly?
Tal and Jacob are the two owners who started the company together in 2008 and still run every project personally out of Burbank. Over 18 years they have watched Magnolia Park's bungalow blocks get renovated one at a time, seen California's ADU laws turn deep postwar backyards into rentable living space, and remodeled kitchens and baths in ranch homes originally built for the Lockheed and studio workforce. Today the two of them split the design-build workload between them, and if you ask on the call, they will tell you which one of them is scheduled for your project.
What does design-build actually mean for my Burbank project?
It means the design and the construction sit with the same team instead of being split between an architect you hire and a contractor you hire separately. Tal and Jacob start every job with a free in-home consultation, move to a 3D design and a written scope, then build exactly what was drawn — so the two people who priced your kitchen are the same two people accountable for the kitchen that gets built. That single line of responsibility is what keeps a Burbank remodel from turning into a finger-pointing exercise when a surprise shows up behind the plaster of a decades-old wall.
Why does this site keep coming back to Burbank being its own city?
Because it changes how every remodel here actually gets built. Burbank incorporated as an independent city on July 8, 1911 and still runs its own permitting through the City of Burbank Community Development Department's Building Division — not the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety that covers a next-door neighborhood like North Hollywood. Plan check, inspections, and every local amendment to the California Building Standards Code go through Burbank's own department, and Tal and Jacob deal with that office directly on every job pulled inside city limits.
What does the Media Capital of the World have to do with kitchen and bath remodeling?
More than you would guess. Warner Bros. Studios has operated in Burbank since 1928 and the Walt Disney Company has been headquartered here since 1940, alongside Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Cartoon Network Studios, which means a large share of the homeowners Tal and Jacob work with are writers, editors, animators and studio crew who keep unusual hours and want a design process that respects a working schedule rather than fighting it. It also means a Media District client base that is design-literate and asks specific questions about materials and finishes — conversations Tal and Jacob are used to having in detail before a single cabinet is ordered.
Is the housing stock really that different across the three location pages?
Genuinely, which is why each is treated as its own story rather than one repeated pitch. [Toluca Lake](/toluca-lake) is older Tudor, Spanish and traditional estate homes split between City of Burbank and City of Los Angeles permitting depending on which side of the line an address sits; [North Hollywood](/north-hollywood) is a City of Los Angeles neighborhood of bungalows, apartments and new infill permitted through LADBS with heavy ADU and garage-conversion demand; [Glendale](/glendale) is its own independent city with Craftsman, Spanish and hillside stock across Verdugo and San Rafael Hills neighborhoods. Burbank itself sits at the center — its own city, its own building department, no coastal zone anywhere in the market.
How does splitting the work between two owners differ from one owner running everything?
Tal and Jacob each carry projects end to end rather than handing a job off partway through, but they review scope, design and site conditions together before anything is priced. Cabinet layout in a Magnolia Park bungalow kitchen, tile-setting a curbless walk-in shower, and framing a garage conversion in a Rancho backyard call on different judgment calls, and having two owners who have made those calls for 18 years, rather than one owner spread thin, is the point. Every project is still built to the California Building Standards Code and Title 24 energy requirements, with permits pulled through the correct department for the address.
What is driving the ADU and garage-conversion demand in Burbank specifically?
California's 2016 ADU laws preempted much of the local zoning that used to block backyard units, and in the SCAG region — which includes Burbank — ADUs grew from 11% of all housing permits in 2018 to 26% in 2022. Burbank's deep postwar lots, many with the same detached garage that once housed a Lockheed worker's second car, are exactly the kind of property those laws were written for, and garage conversions and backyard ADUs are now one of the most common permit types Tal and Jacob pull through the City of Burbank's Building Division. Handling ADU feasibility, design and construction sits inside their home-additions work.
Why does Valley heat get mentioned so often on a remodeling site?
Because Burbank sits in the hot, dry inland San Fernando Valley with no coastal marine layer to moderate it, so triple-digit summer highs are routine and the material choices on a remodel respond to that directly. Attic and wall insulation, dual-pane low-E glazing, HVAC and heat-pump upgrades, and California's Title 24 energy code show up on Tal and Jacob's kitchen, addition and whole-home jobs far more often than they would on a coastal remodel. It is a different set of trade-offs than a beach city faces, and it is one more reason a remodeler who has worked this specific inland Valley for 18 years reads a Burbank home differently.
What gets written down before any work begins?
The scope, the design, the materials allowance and the price — itemized in plain terms and agreed in writing before demolition starts, never settled with a handshake and reconciled after the fact. That written estimate follows the free consultation and the 3D design, so what you are approving is a drawing you can actually see rather than a verbal promise from whichever of the two owners you spoke with. Call (747) 350-1456 before anything starts at your Burbank, Toluca Lake, North Hollywood or Glendale address, and Tal or Jacob will walk the scope through with you directly.
Who handles permits and Title 24, or is that left to me?
Tal and Jacob handle it — pulling the permit is their job, not a task handed back to the homeowner. A Burbank address goes through the City of Burbank Community Development Department's Building Division, a North Hollywood address goes through LADBS, a Glendale address goes through the City of Glendale's own building and safety division, and a Toluca Lake address could be either Burbank or Los Angeles depending on which side of the line the parcel sits — they confirm which applies before drawing anything. Significant remodels and additions also have to meet the Title 24 energy code and CALGreen, which they document as part of every project.
What should we actually be judged on before you hire us?
Judge the process, not a claim. Look at whether the free consultation and 3D design happen before any number is quoted, whether the written estimate matches what actually gets built and billed, whether the permit is pulled through the correct department for your specific address, and whether the same two owners who scoped the job are still the ones on site when it is finished. Eighteen years in Magnolia Park, an address you can visit, and a phone that is answered around the clock are all things you can check yourself before a single wall comes down — call (747) 350-1456 and ask any of it directly.
Do you cover beyond Burbank itself?
Yes — the base is 1006 Magnolia Blvd in Burbank's Magnolia Park area, and standard coverage runs out to Toluca Lake, North Hollywood and Glendale, with Studio City and Sun Valley comfortably within reach as well. A remodel schedule naturally flexes with how far a project sits from Magnolia Boulevard and how complex the build is, but the eastern San Fernando Valley and the Verdugo foothills are realistic ground either way. Call and give Tal or Jacob the address; they will confirm coverage and set up a free consultation on the same 24-hour line.
