Home Remodeling in Coral Gables, FL

From the mid-$20,000s to $75,000+ in 2026, with roughly 3–4 weeks of construction for a basic kitchen, or 5–8 weeks for larger or more intricate designs, once demolition starts. Gables kitchens sit toward the upper half of that band more often than newer houses do, and the reason is almost always the same: the original room is small, so opening it up is part of the job rather than an upgrade on top of it.

It changes the finishing far more than the demolition. A drywall patch can be spotted in and forgotten about. Plaster over block or lath will show a seam in low sun unless the wall is carried to one continuous finish edge to edge, so the honest way to price the repair is by the wall rather than by the hole. Where coved ceilings and picture rails survive, we work around them instead of cutting through and rebuilding them later.

Usually restore, and it is often the cheaper answer. Poured terrazzo from the 1940s and 50s grinds and polishes back to something nothing sold today matches, and it is already flat and bonded to the slab. Covering it means either building up an underlayment, which raises every door, threshold and cabinet toe, or bonding new tile to a surface never intended as a substrate. Covering wins when the slab underneath has moved, when staining goes right through the aggregate, or when the divider-strip layout cuts the room in a way you cannot live with.

$8,000 to $25,000, and the spread is not padding. The first question is what the wall is made of: a wood-framed partition carrying nothing is the low end, block is not. The second is what sits above it. The third is the scar — the terrazzo or tile under a wall was never finished, so repairing the floor and ceiling where it stood is a real line item, and it surprises people who budgeted only for the demolition.

A standard 5x8 bathroom going back in the same footprint finishes inside a week of construction — same layout, fixtures where they were. Size, material selection, relocations and reconfigurations each add weeks on top of that. In a 1930s Gables house the thing that moves the date is almost never the finish schedule; it is what turns up behind the wall on day one. Guest bathrooms typically run $12,000–$25,000 and primary bathrooms $25,000–$60,000+.