Kitchens worth the elevator ride.

Most Aventura kitchens were drawn when nobody expected to look at them: galley layouts tucked behind a wall in Mystic Pointe and Turnberry-era units, builder-grade runs in late-nineties Aventura Lakes houses, formal but dated rooms in Country Club Estates. Today's owners want the opposite — the wall gone, an island with seating, stone with some movement to it, and lighting that was designed rather than inherited. On Williams Island and at Porto Vita, we regularly take a three-decade-old kitchen down to the slab and give the residence the open plan it should have had all along.

Kitchen remodels here are permitted work — the City of Aventura Community Development Department lists kitchen remodeling among the projects that require a permit, and its Building Division inspects the electrical, plumbing, and mechanical behind your new cabinetry. In a tower, plumbing and vent routes are governed by riser stacks and concrete slabs, so relocating a sink or moving appliances takes planning, not optimism. Most buildings are all-electric, which is why induction has quietly conquered Aventura's high-rise kitchens. Associations add their own layer: insurance certificates, elevator bookings for slab-sized deliveries, and set working hours.

The kitchens other contractors photograph are the kind PGX actually delivers: custom cabinetry measured to the millimeter, stone templated after the boxes are set, appliances that sit flush because someone checked the specs twice. You get a fixed written scope before demolition and a supervisor on site every day — not a subcontractor with your key. After 20-plus years and more than 150 remodels and additions across South Florida, we know exactly which details fail first, and we build those parts twice as carefully.