A kitchen that faces the water.

Two kitchen problems dominate Pompano Beach. The first belongs to the mid-century canal house in Harbor Village, Avalon Harbor or Cypress Lakes, where the kitchen is a closed galley with a pass-through window and the best water view in the house has been assigned to a laundry room. The second belongs to the condo residence, whether at Palm Aire and Cypress Bend or in the newer oceanfront buildings along Briny Avenue, where the layout works but the finish level trails the address by a decade. Both get solved by moving walls, not by refacing doors.

Kitchen work is permitted by the City of Pompano Beach Building Permitting and Inspections division, and the submittal is more than a sketch. Expect existing and proposed floor plans, plumbing plans showing every fixture and appliance, electrical plans covering circuits, GFCI and AFCI protection and load calculations, and gas isometrics with BTU loads when a range is involved. In a condominium the association's written approval travels with the package, and hard flooring above another residence needs a laboratory acoustic report proving STC and IIC of at least 50 for your actual slab and ceiling assembly, not a brochure.

Sequencing is what keeps the trades from stepping on each other. Cabinetry gets ordered early because custom boxes set the schedule, slabs are templated against installed cabinets instead of against a drawing, and appliance specifications are in hand before the electrician roughs anything in. The scope is fixed in writing, a supervisor is on site daily, and in a tower we handle the certificates of insurance, the service elevator reservation and the approved noise window so your neighbors stay neighbors. Twenty-plus years in South Florida, every job permitted and inspected.