The ranch kitchen, finally opened up.

Plantation Acres has a particular kitchen problem. Houses here are large. Plenty of ranches from the seventies and eighties run four thousand square feet and up, yet the kitchen inside them is a closed galley with a pass-through to a formal dining room nobody has eaten in since 2004. Owners along Old Hiatus Road and NW 118th Avenue are rarely adding square footage. They are reclaiming it: pulling the wall to the family room, absorbing a dated breakfast nook, and setting a twelve-foot island where the peninsula used to sulk.

Kitchen remodeling in Plantation Acres is permitted by the City of Plantation, with electronic plan review and separate trade inspections for plumbing, electrical and mechanical. Two local wrinkles matter. Enlarge or add a window over the sink and the replacement unit needs a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone product approval, because Broward carries the same HVHZ requirements as Miami-Dade. And where a house sits on an onsite septic system rather than city sewer, adding a second dishwasher, a prep sink and a wet bar is worth reviewing before it is drawn rather than after.

PGX builds kitchens in the order that keeps them straight: cabinetry ordered early, structure opened and inspected, boxes set level, then stone templated against the real installation instead of a drawing. The scope is written and signed before the first cabinet leaves the wall, someone from PGX is here every working day, and the rest of your house gets sealed off rather than swept up afterward. More than twenty years working in South Florida, over 150 remodels and additions completed, none of them unpermitted.