Primary suites for a salt-air house.

Ask a Harbor Beach owner what bothers them and the answer is usually a bathroom. Homes on Isla Bahia Terrace, Lucille Isle and Harbor Beach Parkway were built when a primary suite meant one bath, one window and a tub, and the eighties renovations that followed have aged worse than the originals. So the work here is annexation: taking a closet or a small fourth bedroom and turning the result into a real suite with a double vanity, a wet room and a shower that does not require choreography.

Bath work in Harbor Beach is permitted by Fort Lauderdale's Building Services Division, with plumbing, electrical and mechanical inspections along the way. Those inspectors hold certifications issued through the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals, which also publishes the Broward amendments they inspect against — a layer of oversight worth having when the waterproofing is about to disappear under stone. Enlarging a window brings HVHZ product approval into the picture. And on slab-on-grade houses this close to the water, sanitary line condition and slab depth decide what a curbless shower can actually do.

Nothing in a bathroom forgives a shortcut, and most of what matters gets buried by the second week. Membranes are flood-tested before tile, slopes verified with a level, niches and benches framed before waterproofing rather than cut in afterward, glass hung on real blocking. Stone goes to installers who have handled book-matched slabs before. Around all of it: a scope agreed in writing before demolition, dust containment that treats the rest of the house as finished work, and a supervisor here every day. More than 150 remodels and additions delivered across South Florida, all permitted and inspected.