Outdoor rooms for the City Beautiful.

George Merrick's architects understood the Miami evening, which is why courtyards, loggias, and arcades were built into Coral Gables homes from the start. The modern version of outdoor living is more ambitious: a summer kitchen and covered terrace behind a Riviera home, a pergola and fire feature in Snapper Creek Lakes, a pool terrace at Tahiti Beach that has to shrug off salt air from the bay. Owners here are not buying a grill on a slab. They are building an outdoor room that belongs to the architecture.

Exterior work is exactly what Coral Gables reviews most carefully. Terraces, pergolas, fences, and yes, driveways go before the Board of Architects, and Development Services permits the construction behind them. The city's tree rules mean a specimen oak near your project is a design constraint rather than something to clear away; removing protected trees, or even pruning them heavily, requires its own permit. Waterfront lots add flood-zone considerations for new structures. It sounds like a lot because it is a lot, and it is also why Gables streets look the way they do. We handle the approvals as part of the job, not as your homework.

PGX builds exterior work to interior standards. Gas, water, and electrical runs for summer kitchens are permitted and inspected; pergola footings are engineered rather than guessed; drainage is planned so the terrace sheds water away from the house instead of toward it. Projects run under a fixed written scope with daily supervision, and our crews know how to work behind the gates of Cocoplum or Gables Estates, where quiet, tidy job sites are the price of admission. Licensed and insured under Lic. CGC1539072, with 20-plus years of South Florida construction behind every estimate.