New suite, ninety-year-old house.

A 1926 house on Monroe Street was built with one bathroom and a hall. The ranches that filled in during the 1950s added a second, then tiled it in a color that has since become a conversation piece. Neither arrangement resembles what buyers and long-term owners in Hollywood Lakes want now: a primary suite with two vanities, a freestanding tub, and a shower that does not require choreography. Most bathroom remodeling here is really space planning, borrowing a closet, a hall or a small back bedroom to make one good room.

Plumbing, electrical and mechanical permits come from the City of Hollywood Building Division, with inspections before anything gets covered. Interior bath work almost never sees the Historic Preservation Board; adding or enlarging a window on a designated facade does, through a Certificate of Appropriateness. Any new opening also needs High-Velocity Hurricane Zone product approval, since all of Broward is HVHZ. If you own in one of the older low-rise buildings near the water, add association approval and the scheduling reality of Florida's milestone inspection and structural reserve requirements to the front end.

Bathrooms fail quietly and expensively, so we build them like small pieces of infrastructure. Waterproofing membranes are flood-tested before tile, slopes are confirmed with a level instead of an opinion, heavy glass hangs on blocking installed for that purpose, and stone is set by people who have earned the right to handle it. Fixed written scope, daily supervision, protected pathways from the front door to the work zone, and a licensed, insured contractor behind all of it. Lic. CGC1539072, permitted and inspected without exception.