Behind the gate, quietly rebuilt.

Sea Ranch Lakes was developed in the mid-1950s and incorporated as a village in October 1959, and the original inventory still shows it: low block houses with terrazzo floors, jalousie windows and eight-foot ceilings, sitting on lanes named after lakes. Fewer than two hundred homes fill the gate. Some front the Intracoastal, some sit on Lake Cayuga and Lake Seneca, and the rest line interior lanes such as Minnetonka, Saranac and Chippewa. Owners here rarely tear one down. They gut it, replace everything behind the walls, and finally give the floor plan a reason to face the water.

Permitting in a village this size does not work the way it does in a city. Applications go to the Village Clerk at the Gatehouse Road office, the Village's building official and consulting professionals review them against the Florida Building Code and the Village land development code, a citizen advisory board drawn from Beach Club members comments on design and aesthetics, and the Village Council takes the final action. Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so impact openings need HVHZ product approval, under code administration set countywide by the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals.

Twenty-plus years in South Florida and more than 150 remodels and additions, every one permitted and inspected, is what we bring to a street where everyone knows whose truck is parked where. Scope is fixed in writing before demolition, and a supervisor is here every working day. Deliveries clear the guard at the single entrance, the private lanes stay clean, and the trades keep village hours. One team runs the job from estimate through final inspection and warranty, so when a neighbor on the advisory board asks how it is going, you have an answer.