Thanks for the suggestions. Your reno looks awesome! The townhouses/rowhomes here in Baltimore vary and several have design challenges. I'll take some pics tomorrow in the daylight and give some measurements so that I can post here. I looked on our Nextdoor site for recommendations for kitchen renovators but wanted to research on houzz as well. Basically I wasn't sure if contacting a designer first was the way to go or look for a company that does design as well as contracting.

As soon as I saw your thread title, I thought of CarrieB and her kitchen. I’m so glad she saw this too! She has some wonderful threads on the Kitchens forum here.

Thanks, @bpath! BTW, here's my kitchen reveal thread.

Following!! We're about to start a kitchen reno of our 1885 rowhouse too!! We started with a GC who does a lot of projects in our neighbored on older homes. We told him what we wanted, he walked through, offered feedback on what was/wasn't possible (unless we wanted to totally gut - which isn't in the budget), was able to give cost guesstimates so we could quickly rule out some ideas & even suggested projects we hadn't thought of. The amount of general knowledge he had about everything was great & we found it helpful to get us started.

I'm also embarking on a rowhouse kitchen renovation. Baltimore too!

I spoke with several renovators who all came back with big budget proposals (wildly beyond what I wanted to spend and didn't include appliances and so forth). My agent then recommended a licensed contractor she uses for small renos and home repairs and I had a long and frank discussion with him and realized that the most cost effective way was to use him as my main builder/installer, while subcontracting out electricity, plumbing, flooring, tiling to specialists. So I'm effectively acting as the general contractor.

You can also talk to cabinet stores and kitchen stores like Stuart or Cox and they likely can offer a full remodel too. There's also a few places on the east side of Baltimore, out towards Rosedale off Belair Road or Eastern Avenue. And Ikea / Home Depot. In short, I'd set aside a month or two to talk to as many people to get a sense of what's involved and the costs of everything. It's not for the faint hearted but the more you learn, the more you will also save. Planning is important.

Rowhouse kitchens can be frustrating because every square inch counts. And some things will be inflexible or cause problems you may not think of. For example, party walls can be complicated. Old houses often directly plastered the party wall, so there's no framing space for adding wiring or plumbing, so you might need to add a shallow 3/4'' framing against the party wall, then drywall, for your new cabinets and utilities. Then again, maybe not. It depends on what's possible.