Luxury Kitchen Remodeling Davie, FL
Luxury kitchen remodeling Davie means custom cabinetry built to your openings, stone that runs the whole counter and up the wall, and appliances and lighting designed into the plan instead of chosen at the end. That is a different job from a full remodel, not a more expensive version of one.
- In your house
- 4–6 weeks
- With permits
- 8–12 weeks
- Warranty
- 2 years
- License
- CGC1524886
- Licensed & insured: CGC1524886
- 500+ kitchens completed
- 2-year workmanship warranty
- Answered 7 AM–10 PM, 7 days
There is a real line between a full kitchen remodel and this one, and it is not the price tag.
A full remodel buys manufactured cabinets in stock sizes, filler strips where the boxes do not reach the wall, a countertop and a backsplash. This buys cabinetry built to the openings your house actually has, stone specified by the slab and not by the sample, and a plan where the appliances, the ventilation and the lighting were decided before anything was ordered rather than fitted around what was already bought.
That distinction matters because it is where the money separates. Almost everyone who calls about a kitchen at this level is comparing quotes that are describing two different jobs, and nobody is saying so out loud.
When a Luxury Kitchen Is the Right Call in Davie, and When It Is Not
There are three kitchens in Davie where this is clearly the right answer, and two where it is an expensive mistake. It is worth knowing which one you have before you take a single meeting, because a company that only builds at this level is not going to draw that line for you.
The house is worth it and the kitchen is the last room that is not. In the neighborhoods around Davie built in the seventies and eighties, plenty of houses have been carried forward room by room and stopped at the kitchen, because the kitchen is the expensive one. If the rest of the house is already finished to a level the kitchen contradicts, this is the room that closes the gap, and you are not over-improving anything.
The room is large and the plan is wrong. Thirty-six linear feet of cabinets arranged badly is worse than twenty-five arranged well, and no amount of cabinet money fixes it. A kitchen that needs the soffit gone, the peninsula opened, and the range moved off the wall it has been stuck on since 1987 is a structural job with cabinetry attached, and it belongs here rather than in a package that assumes the walls stay.
You cook seriously and the kitchen cannot keep up. A forty-eight inch range, a real ventilation plan, a second sink, refrigeration split into columns: these are not upgrades that get added to a standard kitchen. They change the electrical, the gas, the ducting and the cabinet layout around them, which is why they have to be in the plan on day one.
Where it is the wrong call: when you are selling inside three years. The published resale numbers do not support it, and we will tell you that on the phone rather than after. The other wrong case is the kitchen bought to match a neighborhood it is not in. What people around you actually spend on their houses is not a feeling. It is data, and the National Association of Home Builders publishes remodeling expenditures broken down by ZIP code covering more than twenty-six thousand of them. If your number is three times what your ZIP code spends, you are buying the kitchen for yourself, which is a fine reason. It is just not an investment, and it should not be sold to you as one.
The one thing we do not take at any budget is a piece of this. Custom cabinetry with the old counter left in place, or a new range dropped into a kitchen nobody is allowed to touch around it, is a job that fails at the seam between what changed and what did not. At this level that seam is more visible, not less, because everything beside it is new.
The Three Places a Luxury Budget Actually Goes
Cabinetry built to the opening
This is where most of the money goes, and it is the line people underestimate by the widest margin. A manufactured cabinet comes in three-inch increments and the gap between the last box and the wall gets covered with a filler; a cabinet built for your kitchen is made to the measurement, which is why an inset door can sit flush in its frame with an even reveal on four sides and why the run can end at the wall instead of near it. It also drives the schedule, because a shop building to your drawings is not pulling boxes off a shelf. The construction is worth asking about in plain terms: what the box is made of, how the drawers are joined, whether the doors are five-piece solid stock or a profile pressed into board.
A ventilation plan the range can use
The second place a budget moves, and the one that gets discovered late. A pro-style range puts out several times the heat of the one it replaced, and the hood over it has to move air in proportion, which means the house has to be able to give that air back. That is a design decision about ducting, routing and where the make-up air comes from, taken while the walls are open, not a hood picked from a catalog after the cabinets are hung. It is also why the range wall is usually the first thing we draw and the last thing that can change.
Structure, if the room has to open
The third, and the one that decides the calendar rather than the invoice. Taking out a wall between the kitchen and the living room in a Davie house from that era means finding out whether it carries load, and if it does, replacing it with a beam that gets engineered, permitted and inspected. The work itself is a few days. The engineering, the review and the inspections are what turn a three to six week project into eight to twelve, and it is the single reason two kitchens with the same cabinet order finish two months apart.
How a Luxury Kitchen Remodel Runs, Step by Step
- Measure and scope, at your house, free. We measure the run wall by wall, check what is inside the soffit, find where the plumbing and the electrical actually sit, and look at whether the wall you want gone is holding anything up. At this level that last question is the one that sets everything else.
- A written number before anything is ordered. One price, itemized, with what is included and what is not. It does not move unless you approve a change in scope. If engineering or drawings are needed, they are on that sheet with a price, not described as "to be determined".
- Design and selections, in that order. The plan comes first and the finishes come second, because the appliances and the ventilation dictate the cabinet layout and not the other way around. We bring samples to your house and we look at full slabs rather than four-inch squares, since a slab is the one material in the kitchen you are buying by the individual piece.
- Permits and engineering, if the scope needs them. Requirements vary by project scope. Any required permitting, drawings, engineering or design services are identified and priced before the project is approved.
- Everything gets ordered and lands in our shop. Cabinets, stone, fixtures, hardware. Nothing is torn out of your house until they are physically here, which is the rule that decides how long you live without a kitchen.
- Demolition and rough work. Old kitchen out, wall out if that is the scope, beam set, plumbing and electrical moved and inspected where the permit calls for it.
- Cabinets set, stone templated on them, then everything else. The counter is templated on the installed cabinetry, which is why it comes after and never before. Then backsplash, lighting, hardware, appliances and the ventilation connection.
- Walkthrough and punch list. We go through it with you, write down anything that is not right, and finish it before we ask for the last payment.
What Luxury Kitchen Remodeling Costs in Davie
We do not publish our own price for a kitchen at this level, and the reason is arithmetic rather than coyness: the variables that set it swing the total by more than a factor of two. How many linear feet, whether walls move, whether the cabinetry is built or bought, which slabs. A number on a page without your kitchen attached to it is a guess. What we can do is show you what this market publishes and tell you what each band is measuring.
The published bands for Broward County put a cosmetic refresh at $7,000 to $16,000, a mid-range full remodel at $22,000 to $45,000, a major full remodel at $45,000 to $80,000, and the luxury band at $80,000 to $140,000 and up. The same guidance notes that most full remodels land between $22,000 and $50,000, which is the honest context for the top band: it is the exception, not the average, and it exists because those kitchens are buying different things and not more of the same things.
| Published band | What it is measuring |
|---|---|
| $7K–$16K | cosmetic refresh |
| $22K–$45K | mid-range full remodel |
| $45K–$80K | major full remodel |
| $80K–$140K+ | luxury |
What actually moves the number
Cabinetry first, and it is not close. Then whether the room's structure changes, because a beam brings engineering, review and inspections with it. Then the stone, measured in slabs rather than square feet once the pieces get long. Then the appliance package, which is the line homeowners bring to the table already decided and which quietly resets the electrical, the gas and the ventilation around it. Then permits, access and whether an association controls your work hours.
Your zip code is not on that list. We charge the same in Davie, Weston and Fort Lauderdale.
On the appliance package
It is worth knowing what you can and cannot compare on. The one public list that lets you check a machine against something other than its brand is the federal ENERGY STAR list of certified product categories, which covers refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers and electric cooking products. The gas range that sits at the center of most kitchens at this level is not a category on it. That is not an argument against the range; it is a warning that above a certain price the appliance decision is made on reputation and on what the room can duct and supply, and there is no efficiency label doing the comparison for you.
One number worth knowing before you decide the scope
The Cost vs Value study for this region puts resale recovery on a minor kitchen remodel at 109.2% and on a major one at 50.2%. Spending several times as much returns about half. If you are remodeling to sell, that ratio should decide the scope, and no company that makes more money on the larger job is going to raise it with you. If you are staying fifteen years, it is close to irrelevant and you should ignore it.
Why Choose Us for a Kitchen at This Level
- We will argue you down a band, and it costs us money to do it. If what is bothering you about the kitchen is the layout rather than the finish level, the fix is structural and cheaper than custom cabinetry. You hear that at the measurement.
- The plan is finished before anything is ordered. Appliances, ventilation and lighting are drawn into the cabinet layout, not fitted around it afterwards. The kitchens that go wrong at this level almost always went wrong at that step.
- Nothing comes out of your house until it is all in our shop. That rule is what keeps the time inside your house to four to six weeks on a permitted job instead of four months of waiting with a card table in the dining room.
- Change orders are shown to you before they happen. Opening a wall in a house from 1987 produces surprises. You see what we found, what it costs and what the options are, and you decide before we go further.
The crews work under Gaven Constructions, license CGC1524886, insured, with a two-year workmanship warranty on the installation. Someone answers this phone from 7 AM to 10 PM every day, which is the part most people end up caring about while they are collecting three estimates.
Licensed, Insured, and Permitted in Davie
A kitchen at this level crosses into permitted work more often than a straightforward remodel does, and it is worth knowing why before you are surprised by the calendar. If the scope stays inside the existing footprint, it usually stays clear of review. Once a wall comes out, or the sink, the range or the gas line moves, the Town of Davie Building Division looks at structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical as separate disciplines and decides case by case. We do not publish a table telling you which side your job falls on, because that determination is theirs and following a contractor's table is your exposure. What we publish is when you find out: in the written estimate, priced, before you approve the project.
The one that catches people is mechanical. A kitchen's exhaust is treated as local mechanical exhaust under the residential ventilation standard, ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.2, which sets the minimum requirements for acceptable indoor air quality through dwelling ventilation, local exhaust and source control. A hood sized for a professional range moves enough air that the house has to be able to replace it. Where that replacement air comes from is a design question answered while the walls are open. Answered afterwards, the answer is usually a hood that gets turned down to the setting where it stops working.
- License
- CGC1524886 Certified General Contractor, verifiable in the Florida DBPR licensee search.
- Insurance
- Insured and bonded Certificates are available before any work is scheduled.
- Workmanship warranty
- 2 years On installation labor. Most of this market publishes one.
- Permits and design
- Priced before approval Requirements vary by project scope. Any required permitting, drawings, engineering, or design services are identified and priced before the project is approved.
- Who contracts the work
- Gaven Constructions Kitchen Remodeler Davie was acquired by Gaven Constructions, a licensed contractor since 2015. Every estimate and invoice is issued in that name, which is what puts the license behind the job.
Common Questions
What is the average cost to remodel a kitchen in Florida, and where does a Davie luxury kitchen sit?
Published guidance for Broward County puts a cosmetic refresh at $7,000 to $16,000, a mid-range full remodel at $22,000 to $45,000, a major full remodel at $45,000 to $80,000, and the luxury band above $80,000. The same guidance says most full remodels land between $22,000 and $50,000, so the state average you find online is being pulled down by the two lower bands and is not describing this job at all. What separates the top band is not more of the same materials: it is cabinetry built to your openings rather than bought in stock sizes, stone specified by the slab, and a plan where the appliances and the ventilation were designed in. In a Davie house the second variable is structure, because a kitchen that has to open into the living room is buying engineering, review and inspections along with the cabinets.
Is $30,000 enough for a kitchen remodel in Davie?
For a full remodel of an average Davie kitchen that keeps its existing layout, yes, and comfortably so: $30,000 sits in the middle of the published mid-range band for this county. For the kitchen this page describes, no, and it is better to hear that now than after three meetings. At $30,000 you are buying manufactured cabinetry in stock sizes, a quartz counter, a backsplash and a competent installation inside the walls you already have, which is a genuinely good kitchen and what most people should buy. What $30,000 does not cover is cabinetry built to the opening, a slab specified by the piece, or a wall coming out with a beam replacing it. If your number is around there, the useful conversation is which of those three you actually want, because usually only one of them is what is bothering you.
What is the most expensive part of a luxury kitchen remodel in Davie?
The cabinetry, and by a margin wide enough that everything else is a rounding error next to it. The reason is that at this level you stop buying a product and start buying shop time: boxes built to your measurements, doors made from solid stock, drawers joined rather than stapled, and a finish sprayed in a booth instead of applied on a production line. Second is structure, when the room has to open, not because a beam is expensive in itself but because it brings engineering, permitting and inspections with it. Third is the appliance package, which arrives at the table already chosen and then resets the electrical, the gas and the ventilation around it. Stone is usually fourth and surprises people, who arrive expecting the counter to be the big number.
In what order should a luxury kitchen remodel be done in a Davie house?
Structure first on paper, then the plan, then the finishes, and only then the order. The mistake that costs the most is choosing appliances first and drawing the kitchen around them, because a forty-eight inch range and a column refrigerator change the cabinet layout, the electrical, the gas and the ducting, and discovering that after the cabinetry has been drawn means paying to draw it again. On site the order is fixed and it does not vary: demolition, structure, rough plumbing and electrical, inspections where the permit calls for them, drywall, cabinets, then the countertop templated on the installed cabinets, then backsplash, lighting, hardware and appliances. The counter always comes after the cabinets are standing, which is why anyone quoting you a stone lead time from day one is estimating rather than scheduling.
What is the new look for kitchens in 2026, and does it work in a Davie house?
The direction everyone is describing is warmer and quieter than the decade before it: wood tones back in the room rather than everything painted, color on the island and the perimeter left calm, stone with visible movement instead of uniform white, and hardware that is not chrome. What matters more in a Davie house is what that direction implies structurally, because most of these kitchens also assume ceiling-height cabinetry and no bulkhead, and a house from the seventies or eighties here usually has a soffit with ducting or wiring inside it. Whether it can go is the first question, not the last. We would rather find that out at the measurement than have you commit to a look the ceiling will not allow.
What color kitchen will not date in Davie, FL?
The finishes that hold up are the ones that were not a trend when they were installed: natural wood in a tone that reads as the material rather than as a color, a neutral perimeter, and stone chosen for its movement rather than for matching something. Where a kitchen dates fastest is the hardware and the paint color on the island, and those are also the two cheapest things to change, which is a useful way to decide where to take risks. The other honest answer is that finish is not what dates a Davie kitchen. The layout is. A closed galley with a soffit reads as its decade no matter how new the doors are, and an open plan with a properly sized island reads as current in almost any finish. If you are worried about dating, spend the money on the plan.
Recent Kitchen Remodeling Projects in Davie
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Refaced cabinets, shaker fronts and a tile backsplash Cabinet refacing
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Cabinets refinished in navy under the existing granite Cabinet refinishing -
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Counter at two heights, open underneath Accessible kitchen remodeling -
A wider walkway between the wall run and the island Kitchen layout redesign
A kitchen at this level is one of several ways this work gets scoped. See the rest of what Kitchen Remodeler Davie does, or compare it against the full list of kitchen remodeling services.
Tell us the linear feet of cabinet run and whether the walls are staying.
Those two answers put your kitchen in a band before anybody drives out to measure it. If what you want is achievable inside the footprint, we will say so, and that is usually the cheaper conversation. If it is not, you will hear that first instead of after the drawings are paid for.
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