A kitchen worth the ocean view.

The typical Hallandale Beach kitchen was drawn as a closed galley at the back of the unit, facing a service corridor instead of the water. Buildings along South Ocean Drive and the mid-rises on Golden Isles Drive were laid out that way for decades, and so were the mid-century houses in Golden Isles and the townhouses off Layne Boulevard. The remodel almost everyone wants is the same: knock the partition down, put an island where the pass-through was, and let the kitchen see the view the unit was bought for.

Permits come from the Hallandale Beach Building Division, which reviews under the Florida Building Code as amended for Broward, and documents go through the city's online portal rather than by email. In a condo the association reviews first, and its rules usually cover working hours, elevator use, floor sound ratings and who carries the insurance. The physical constraints are the real design driver: plumbing stacks are fixed, the slab decides how far a drain can move, and range hoods can only vent where the building allows.

PGX orders cabinetry early and templates stone after the boxes are set, which is the boring discipline that keeps a kitchen from arriving in the wrong sequence. Slabs come up on a scheduled elevator with pads hung and corridors covered, because your neighbors did not sign up for your renovation. Fixed written scope, a supervisor on site daily, licensed and insured under Lic. CGC1539072, and more than 150 remodels and additions delivered across South Florida, all of them permitted and inspected.