Kitchens built for a barrier island.

Two kitchen problems dominate Hillsboro Beach, and they are almost opposites. In the low-rise buildings, places like Port de Mer, Kingsley Arms and Hillsboro Windsor, you are working inside a footprint drawn decades ago, with plumbing stacks and structural slabs that decide where the sink can go. In the estate houses along Hillsboro Mile, the constraint is scale: a room built for a caterer's staff now has to hold an island, a wine wall, and everyone who wandered in from the dock. Different puzzles, same answer, which is measuring before promising.

Because a kitchen at this level touches plumbing, electrical and often structure, it gets permitted through the Town of Hillsboro Beach Building Department and inspected before anything is closed up. In a condominium, the association comes first: approval of the plans, proof of insurance, and a slot on the service elevator, which in a small building is a genuinely scarce resource. Buildings of three habitable stories or more are also working through Florida's milestone inspection and structural reserve study requirements, which can affect when a board is willing to sign off on unit work.

We build kitchens in the sequence that keeps them intact. Cabinets get ordered early because good millwork takes months, stone is templated after the boxes are set rather than off a drawing, and appliances are confirmed against real rough-in dimensions before a wall closes. Floors, corridors and elevator cabs are protected on the way in and out. You get a fixed written price, a daily supervisor, and crews who understand that in a building where half the owners are away, the neighbors who stayed deserve quiet afternoons.