Covered outdoor living with summer kitchen and pool terrace — outdoor living & exterior in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Architectural rendering.

Outdoor Living & Exterior · Lighthouse Point, FL

The good side faces the water.

Summer kitchens, covered terraces, pergolas, driveways and impact openings for Lighthouse Point waterfront homes. Engineered for HVHZ uplift, permitted through the city, and built under daily supervision by a licensed, insured general contractor.

Licensed & insured Lic. CGC1539072 Lighthouse Point · Broward County Hablamos español

Outdoor Living & Exterior in Lighthouse Point

Outdoor rooms on a dead-end canal.

In Lighthouse Point roughly eighty percent of the homes are single family and most of them front water, so the backyard is not a leftover. It is the reason people bought. Outdoor living projects here run bigger than a grill on a slab: a covered terrace and summer kitchen between the pool and the seawall in Hillsboro Isles, a pergola and fire table off a Lake Placid patio, a full redo of driveway, walkways and stucco so the street elevation stops arguing with the new interior. The dock crowd arrives by boat and stays for dinner.

Exterior work is permitted work in Lighthouse Point: patios, pool decks, fences, driveways, enclosures, generators and window or door replacements all need a permit from the city's Building and Zoning Department, and new openings need HVHZ product approvals because Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. The waterfront items live under two roofs at once. Docks, boat lifts and seawall repairs draw Broward County environmental review alongside the city permit, and the county's resiliency standards now set minimum elevations for seawalls and tidal flood barriers. Tree removal and relocation carry their own approvals as well.

We build the outside to the same standard as the inside. Summer kitchen gas, water and electrical are permitted and inspected rather than run under a patio and forgotten. Pergola footings are engineered for uplift, not guessed at. Terraces are pitched so water leaves the house instead of pooling against it. We are a general contractor, so where a project needs a licensed marine contractor for dock or seawall work, we coordinate the sequence rather than pretend it is our trade. Fixed scope, daily supervision, Lic. CGC1539072.

Summer kitchen under a covered outdoor terrace — architectural rendering

Where we work in Lighthouse Point

Venetian Isles Coral Key Villas Coral Key Harbor Hillsboro Isles Lighthouse Manor Wooler Heights Pompano Waterway Estates Lake Placid Lighthouse Colony Lighthouse Harbor Lighthouse Point Estates Hillsboro Estates

Elsewhere in Lighthouse Point? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.

What's included

What we build outside the house.

One coordinated project, whether it is a single terrace or the whole water elevation. The list below covers most Lighthouse Point backyards.

01

Cooking on the canal side

Gas, water and power run and permitted properly, with cabinetry, counters and appliances specified for a yard fifty feet from brackish water.

02

Covered terraces, engineered

Shade structures set on poured footings with uplift hardware sized for HVHZ, proportioned to the house instead of ordered out of a catalog.

03

Pool decks and dockside paving

Paver and finished concrete surfaces graded to move water away from the slab, with the transition to the seawall cap detailed rather than improvised.

04

Driveways and street elevation

New driveways, walkways, entry work, stucco repair and paint, permitted through the city and dimensioned off the survey you already have to submit.

05

Impact doors, water side

Replacing sliders and terrace doors with HVHZ-approved impact units, flashed correctly, so the best wall in the house stops being the weakest one.

Pool terrace and seating beside a South Florida home — architectural rendering

How we work

A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.

20+
Years building in South Florida
150+
Remodels and additions delivered
100%
Permitted and inspected work
1
Team accountable from estimate to warranty

AFixed scope, honest pricing

A detailed written scope before we start — so the number you sign is the number you pay, and changes are decisions, not surprises.

BA superintendent on site, daily

Your project is run by someone whose name you know, who answers the phone, and who walks the site every working day.

CBuilt to code, warrantied in writing

HVHZ-rated products, inspected phases, closed permits, and a written warranty when we hand back the keys.

How it goes

From first walk to final walk-through.

01

Walk-through & estimate

We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.

1–2 weeks
02

Design & permits

Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.

4–10 weeks
03

Construction

Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.

Per scope
04

Closeout & warranty

Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.

1–2 weeks

FAQ

Straight answers.

Do you build seawalls and docks?
No, and be suspicious of a general contractor who claims otherwise. Docks, lifts and seawalls are marine work with their own licensing and their own approval path, starting with Broward County environmental review before the city building department will accept a submittal. What we do is build everything landward of the seawall cap and coordinate schedules with your marine contractor, so the terrace is not poured the week their barge or crane needs the access.
Does a summer kitchen or pergola really need a permit?
Yes to both. Patios, decks, enclosures and accessory structures are permitted work in Lighthouse Point, and the gas, water and electrical runs need their own trade applications and inspections. Building without one gets you a stop work order and a penalty at twice the original fee. It is more process than a covered grill seems to warrant, and it is also why the finished thing appraises and insures as an improvement rather than a liability.
How do I keep an outdoor kitchen from corroding on a canal?
Specify once, correctly. Marine-grade stainless, powder coating rated for coastal exposure, dense stone properly sealed, hardware and fasteners chosen for salt air, and an overhang deep enough to keep driving rain off the appliances. Cabinetry merely labelled outdoor-rated rarely survives this environment for long. Getting it right the first time costs less than replacing the whole run in year four.
Will Broward's seawall elevation rules affect my backyard project?
They can, and it is worth knowing before you pour anything. Broward County adopted resiliency standards setting minimum elevations for seawalls and tidal flood barriers, phased in over the coming decades, and they generally apply when a wall is newly built or substantially repaired. If your seawall is due, raising it changes the grade of everything behind it. Far better to design the terrace once, around the final elevation, than to build it twice.
What should we budget for a full backyard build?
The number tracks structure and utility runs, not the footprint. A paver terrace and some landscape lighting is one conversation; a covered outdoor room with a summer kitchen, gas, water, power, engineered footings and new impact doors across the water elevation is genuinely another. Appliance and stone selections move the number as much as the slab does. We scope it in writing after walking the yard, so you are comparing specifications rather than guesses.

Contact

Show us the water side

Walk the yard with us and describe how you actually entertain out there. A fixed written scope comes back, in English o en español.

Office
Miami, FL
Hours
Mon–Fri, 8:00–18:00
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