The backyard is why you're here.

People do not move to Key Biscayne for the interiors. Life here runs outside, toward the pool, the seawall, the dock, the shaded terrace where dinner happens ten months a year. So village-core owners are replacing builder-grade patios with proper outdoor rooms, and waterfront homes from Harbor Point to Cape Florida are adding summer kitchens, pergolas, and terraces scaled for real entertaining. The catch is the environment doing the entertaining: salt air corrodes standard hardware in a season or two, so everything we specify — fasteners, framing, appliances, finishes — is chosen for a barrier island, not a catalog.

Outdoor projects are still permitted projects. The Village of Key Biscayne's Building, Zoning and Planning Department reviews structures, electrical, plumbing, and gas lines the same way it reviews interior work, and zoning rules on setbacks and lot coverage apply in the backyard too. Anything with a roof or a frame — pergolas, trellises, covered terraces — must be engineered for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, with anchoring designed for uplift rather than optimism. On a low-lying island, we also treat drainage as a design item: terrace elevations and slopes planned so a king tide or a summer downpour drains away from the house, not into it.

PGX approaches exteriors as one coordinated package rather than five separate trades. Terraces, stucco and paint, impact openings, re-roof coordination, and the summer kitchen all move on one schedule, under one written scope, with one supervisor on site daily, so the driveway is not a staging yard for months. We have spent more than 20 years building in South Florida, and on a small island where everyone knows everyone, we keep job sites clean, quiet, and finished on the timeline we put in writing. When the last pallet leaves, the yard should look like the renderings, minus the rendering people.