Outdoor living, Village rules included.

Miami Shores lives outdoors most of the year, with bay breezes off Bayfront Park, golf light over the Country Club, and dinner on the terrace in January. The high-end outdoor living work here follows that rhythm: covered terraces off 1920s Mediterranean Revival homes, summer kitchens built for actual cooking, pergolas shading a pool deck, and driveways and stucco brought up to the standard of the rest of the house. Done well, the yard becomes the best room the house has.

Exterior work is precisely where Miami Shores Village pays attention. The code requires buildings to stay harmonious with their neighborhood in character, appearance, and exterior color, and nonstandard colors need advance approval from the Planning and Zoning Board. Every structure you add must meet High-Velocity Hurricane Zone wind loads with Miami-Dade approved products, permitted through the Village Building Department. Near the bay and the Biscayne Canal, king tides belong in the drainage plan and salt air belongs in the material selection. We design for the review and the weather at the same time.

PGX Builders Group runs exterior projects as one coordinated scope instead of five trades guessing at each other's schedules: the gas line goes in before the stone counter, the roof tie-ins happen before the paint, the driveway gets poured after the heavy equipment leaves. Licensed, insured, permitted, and inspected, CGC1539072, with a written scope and a supervisor who shows up daily. Twenty-plus years in South Florida taught us that exteriors fail at the details, so the details get supervised.