Kitchens, including the wall you were told could not move.

The job behind the photograph.

The question at the front of almost every kitchen job is the same: can that wall come out. The answer depends on what is sitting on it, where the load goes instead, and what is running inside it. A general contractor who frames for a living can stand in the room and tell you: beam size, post locations, whether the footing under the post is adequate, and what the header does to the ceiling line.

From there it is sequence. Demo, then any structural work, then rough plumbing and electrical while the walls are open, then board and finish, then cabinets set level on floors that are never level, then counters templated to what was actually installed rather than to the plan.

Russ works commercial as well as residential, which mostly shows up in kitchens as a tolerance for coordination: appliance specs that dictate cabinet openings, a range hood that needs a real duct run, and an inspection sequence that has to happen in the right order or the drywall comes back off.