A kitchen for the water view.

Walk into most Harbor Islands houses and the kitchen tells you the year. Bulkhead soffits above the wall cabinets, a corner pantry, a peninsula standing between the cook and everyone else, granite in a busy pattern, and cherry doors darker than the floor. On Windjammer Way and Harbor Court the room is often looking straight at the Intracoastal and doing nothing with it. So the kitchen remodeling brief here is rarely cosmetic: take the peninsula out, put a real island in, and turn the room toward the water.

A real kitchen touches plumbing, electrical, mechanical and often structure, which means a building permit and trade permits from the City of Hollywood, plus inspections along the way by inspectors certified through the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals. Purely interior work does not go to Harbor Islands architectural review, but the association still wants your contractor's insurance certificate and gate clearance before the first delivery truck arrives. If a window over the sink grows, that becomes an exterior change, an HVHZ product approval, and an association submittal.

The order of operations is what keeps a kitchen honest. Cabinets are ordered early because good boxes take months, stone is templated after cabinets are set rather than off a drawing, and appliances are confirmed by model number before a single cabinet is cut. Dust walls go up at the kitchen line so the rest of your house stays the finished house. The scope is fixed in writing, a supervisor is here daily, and PGX carries Lic. CGC1539072 with insurance the association can verify.