Kitchen & bath remodeling in Sanford, FL.

The Sanford Historic District includes hundreds of pre-1940 homes, many of them on the National Register. Original kitchens are tiny, separated from the dining room by a load-bearing wall, often with a butler's pantry that's been converted to closet space at some point. Original baths are upstairs under a low gable. The remodels we run here are usually full gut-and-rebuild projects that respect the historic character — period-appropriate cabinet profiles, soapstone or honed marble counters, subway tile, brass or unlacquered nickel fixtures.

Historic Preservation Board review is required for any exterior-visible work in the district. Interior remodels rarely trigger HPB. We file the paperwork and coordinate the committee response when it's needed before permitting begins.

Federal EPA Lead-Safe rules apply to renovation work on any pre-1978 home. In the Sanford Historic District that's essentially every home. Our crews follow lead-safe protocols for demolition and surface prep — HEPA-filtered containment, wet methods, dust monitoring, EPA-approved disposal. It's the standard for working inside an occupied historic home and the only legal way to do it.

We document the protocol in the contract so there's no question about scope or compliance.

The 1990s–2010s custom homes along Markham Woods Road, in Heathrow Woods, and along the Lake Mary border have the same remodel pattern as the broader Lake Mary market — opening up the kitchen layout, replacing original raised-panel cabinets with painted shaker, upgrading counters to quartz or dolomite, and converting primary baths to frameless walk-in showers with freestanding tubs. Markham Woods homes tend toward higher finish expectations because the homes are larger.

HOA architectural review applies in most of the gated communities. We submit and track approval in parallel with Seminole County permitting.

The City of Sanford Building Department permits residential kitchen and bath work directly. Historic-district properties add the HPB review for any exterior-visible work. Seminole County handles unincorporated parcels along the northern edge of the city. Markham Woods sits in unincorporated Seminole.