Kitchen & bath remodeling in Orlando, FL.

The 1920s and 30s bungalows around Lake Eola Heights, Thornton Park, and the College Park / Mills 50 fringe were built for an entirely different way of cooking. Original kitchens are tight, separated from the dining room by a load-bearing wall, and often sit over crawlspaces with original galvanized supply lines. The remodels we build here usually open the kitchen into the dining room, swap galvanized supply for PEX or copper, and bring the panel up from 100A to 200A so you can run an induction range and a dishwasher without flickering lights.

These homes also tend to have one cramped bathroom under a low gable. We've completed enough primary-bath additions in this neighborhood to know which architects can stamp a roof-line modification and which permit reviewers want a structural detail before the first inspection.

The 1955–1975 ranches in Conway, Audubon Park, and the Lake Como area sit on slabs, have terrazzo or tile-over-slab original floors, and were built with single-pane jalousie or aluminum windows that a modern remodel often replaces. Kitchens here are typically a closed L-shape with a peninsula — opening that into a great-room layout is the most common remodel scope we run for these homeowners.

Slab plumbing is often the gating factor on these projects. Moving a sink from a perimeter wall to an island requires saw-cutting the slab, installing a vent loop to code, and pouring back. We confirm what's involved on the first walkthrough so the scope is clear before we sign.

Baldwin Park and similar 2003–2010 master-planned neighborhoods are now hitting their first major remodel cycle. The original cabinets, builder-grade quartz or laminate counters, and standard tile showers are aging out, but the homes are structurally sound and the layouts mostly work. Our typical Baldwin Park remodel is a same-footprint kitchen refresh — new semi-custom cabinets, a quartz waterfall island that fits the existing space, a full-height tile backsplash, and a primary-bath conversion of the original tub-shower combo into a frameless walk-in shower.

These projects benefit from limited scope creep, since the bones of the home are already correct.

The City of Orlando Building & Permitting Services issues residential kitchen and bath permits directly. Properties on the historic register (parts of Lake Eola Heights and Thornton Park) may require Historic Preservation Board review for exterior-visible work — interior renovations rarely trigger that step. We file the paperwork as part of our scope and coordinate the rough and final inspections.