The backyard earns its keep.

Surfside is a town people experience on foot, walking to the beach, to Harding Avenue, to the community center, and its backyards are catching up to that outdoor life. Behind 1940s houses on Byron and Dickens, and along the bayfront on Biscaya Island, owners are building covered terraces, summer kitchens, and pergolas that turn a modest yard into the most used room of the house. The work that lasts is built the way the coast demands: dense materials, marine-grade hardware, and shade you can actually sit under in August.

Nothing gets a closer look from Surfside than exterior work. Structures, driveways, and visible changes route through the Town of Surfside Building Department, with the Planning and Zoning Board weighing in on design where required, and anything that must stand up to wind, from a pergola to new impact openings, needs engineering and Miami-Dade product approvals behind it. Drainage matters too. On low-lying coastal streets, a new driveway or terrace should move water deliberately rather than discover gravity by accident.

PGX approaches outdoor living projects the way we approach interiors, with a fixed written scope, real engineering, and daily supervision, because exterior work fails in slower and more expensive ways when it is improvised. We coordinate the whole envelope when asked: stucco and paint, re-roof scheduling with the roofer, impact windows and doors, and the terrace itself, sequenced so trades help each other instead of undoing each other. Twenty-plus years of South Florida weather is our design reviewer of last resort, and it has strong opinions.