A kitchen worthy of Sunset Drive.

The postwar houses of University Gardens, Mango Terrace, and Cocoplum Terrace were drawn when the kitchen was a workroom: sealed off, single window, one circuit doing all the labor. That layout has aged worse than anything else in these houses. So South Miami owners open the wall to the dining room, land a stone island where it used to be, and build cabinetry to the ceiling — a kitchen that can host homework, cocktails, and Sunday dinner at once, a short walk from the downtown Sunset Drive restaurants it now competes with.

Even a kitchen that keeps its footprint touches plumbing, electrical, and mechanical work, which means a permit from the City of South Miami Building Department, a small office that still likes its application forms original and notarized. Take a wall out and you've added structural engineering, because in a concrete-block house that wall is usually doing something. Gas ranges need permitted fuel lines; induction usually needs a panel upgrade. We fold all of it into one submittal so the city reviews the project once, not piecemeal.

Kitchens are where sequencing separates contractors. Custom cabinetry has a lead time, stone gets templated only after the cabinets set, and a family can't live around an open trench forever. PGX runs kitchens on a fixed written scope and a schedule built backward from those realities, with a supervisor checking the site daily and the rest of your house sealed off and protected. One team owns it all — demolition, trades, millwork, punch list — from the first measurement to the last hinge adjustment.