Serving the greater Tampa Bay area
Kitchen Remodeling in St. Petersburg
You've saved for this kitchen and you want it done right. What's keeping you up is the part you can't control: handing your house to a crew you don't know, and hoping the job that starts doesn't turn into the horror story your neighbor still talks about. That worry is fair. Let me tell you how we work, and you can decide if we're your people.
I'm Ricky Powers. 30+ years in the trade, and I still walk every job myself. Call us and you get me, not a call center.
The kitchens we see around St. Pete
St. Petersburg has some of the best old housing stock in the bay, and it comes with its own puzzles.
The historic bungalows in Historic Kenwood and the Old Northeast are the heart of it. Real plaster, original wood, layouts from a time when the kitchen was a small back room you closed the door on. Owners love these houses and don't want a remodel that erases their character. The work there is careful: open it up enough to live in, keep what makes the place worth owning.
Then you've got the mid-century blocks scattered through town. Solid, simple houses, kitchens that haven't been touched since the cabinets first went in. Those projects are often about a clean, smart redo rather than untangling a hundred years of changes.
There's one thing both share down here, and it's the water. St. Pete sits close to the bay, and that means humidity and salt air work on a house year-round. It matters for what we put in your kitchen, from the cabinet materials to the hardware finishes that hold up and the ones that pit and rust in a couple of seasons.
What drives the cost of a St. Pete kitchen
A kitchen isn't one price, because it isn't one job. Cabinets are usually the biggest line, and the spread from stock to custom is wide. Counters come next, and a cheap slab set wrong costs you twice. The quiet driver is whether we move anything. Keep the sink, range, and walls where they are and you hold the budget down. Move the plumbing or pull a wall and you're into permits, framing, and electrical. Some walls are worth taking out. Some aren't, and I'll be straight with you about which yours is before you spend a dime moving it.
The part nobody likes: what's behind the walls
This is the old-house reality, and St. Pete has plenty of old houses. Open up a Kenwood or Old Northeast kitchen and you find what the years left. Wiring that predates how we use a kitchen now. Plumbing that's tired. The damp climate down here is hard on framing and subfloor, so we sometimes find soft spots or old water trouble once the demo's done.
A straight contractor talks about that risk up front instead of springing it on you mid-job. We pull the right permits through the City of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, and we build the unknowns into the plan honestly. That's not the place to cut corners, especially this close to the water.
One crew, start to finish
No handoffs. The crew that demos your kitchen is the crew that sets your cabinets and the crew that sweeps the floor the last day. We protect what we're not working on, keep the site clean, and keep you in the loop. A good kitchen takes weeks, not a weekend, and I'd rather tell you that now than miss a date I never should have promised.
If your wish list and your budget don't line up, you'll hear it from me early. Losing a job is easier to live with than taking it on a plan I know won't deliver.