Kitchens worthy of the house.

The original kitchens in Morningside, Palm Grove, and Belle Meade were designed to be hidden — small, closed rooms at the back of the house, built when nobody entertained in them. Today the kitchen is where these Upper East Side homes live, so owners open them to the dining room, add an island in honed stone, and commission cabinetry that holds its own next to ninety-year-old plaster and hardwood. Done well, a new kitchen feels inevitable in a 1938 house. Done poorly, it looks like a showroom crashed into it. We build the first kind.

A kitchen remodel here is a City of Miami permit job — building, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical — and in these houses it usually uncovers the original infrastructure: cloth-insulated wiring, galvanized supply lines, undersized panels. Removing the wall between kitchen and dining room means engineering, because most of these walls are load-bearing masonry. And if your street is inside the Morningside, Bayside, or Palm Grove historic district, any exterior change — a new window over the sink, a relocated vent — needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before it needs a permit. We handle both, in the right order.

Every PGX kitchen begins as a fixed written scope, allowances spelled out rather than discovered along the way. Our supervisor is on site daily, the cabinetry is measured after the walls are straightened rather than before, and the stone templating happens once the boxes are set — the sequence that separates a tight kitchen from an expensive one with gaps. With 150-plus remodels and additions delivered across South Florida, we have made peace with old houses. They still surprise us; they no longer surprise our budgets.