Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling in Sarasota, FL

Sarasota judges design harder than any other city on Florida's Gulf Coast. This is the home of the Sarasota School of Architecture and the tropical modernism it produced from 1941 to 1966. Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph built the Cocoon House on Siesta Key in 1948. Philip Hiss developed Lido Shores around the Umbrella House in 1953. When that's the local benchmark, a remodeler can't hide behind a cabinet catalog.

That's why we opened a real office here. TGA Kitchens & Remodeling works out of 2937 Bee Ridge Rd, Unit 9-21, on the corridor that borders Southgate's concrete-block ranches. It's not a pin on a service-area map. It's where our Sarasota and Manatee projects get designed, priced, and managed.

Our process fits a design-literate town. We model your kitchen or bathroom in photorealistic 3D before demolition starts. You approve the light, the proportions, and the materials on screen first. Then one licensed team carries that exact plan through permits and construction. No handoffs between a design firm that leaves and a build crew that improvises.

This page covers both kitchens and bathrooms. It's built on Sarasota specifics: Southgate's terrazzo and block walls, Siesta Key's condo boards, and the city-versus-county permit split. If you'd rather just talk, call (727) 800-4050 and book a consultation at the Bee Ridge office.

Southgate's ranches brought Sarasota School ideas to the middle class: terrazzo floors, deep eaves, low-pitched roofs, and sliders opening to a Florida room. The weak point is the kitchen. Most were built as closed galleys, walled off from the living space by structural block.

Opening a concrete-block wall isn't a sledgehammer job. It takes an engineered header, a permit, and a crew that's done it before. We design the opening in 3D first, so you see how a new island reads against your original terrazzo. Then we protect that terrazzo through demolition, it's often the most valuable finish in the house.

These kitchens were also drawn for 1958 households: one wall oven, a shallow fridge, no dishwasher. Today's panel-ready refrigeration and induction cooking need deeper runs and new circuits. We plan those depths in the 3D model, so the galley's clean sightlines survive the upgrade.

Bathrooms in these houses run small, often a five-by-eight hall bath. We reclaim inches with wall-hung vanities, curbless showers, and pocket doors. Flat-slab cabinet fronts, warm wood, and linear tile keep the midcentury language intact. What we won't do is drop an ornate Tuscan kitchen into a 1958 ranch. In these neighborhoods, that decision costs you at resale.

Arlington Park and the West of Trail blocks mix eras, 1950s cottages beside new construction. There we design to the house you actually own, not to a template. That's the whole point of modeling it first.

Sarasota splits permitting in a way that surprises new residents. Inside city limits, downtown, Lido Shores, Arlington Park, permits run through the City of Sarasota Building Division's online portal at SarasotaFL.gov. Siesta Key, Gulf Gate, and most homes east of town are unincorporated. Those permits go through Sarasota County's Accela Citizen Access system instead.

City and county boundaries interlock around the Bee Ridge corridor, so we confirm jurisdiction from the parcel record before quoting a timeline. Then we prepare drawings to the right authority's standards and pull the permit under our Florida Certified Building Contractor license, CBC1268077.

One 2026 change worth knowing: Florida's HB 803 took effect July 1. It exempts single-family work valued under $7,500 from permitting. Read the fine print, though. The exemption excludes electrical, plumbing, structural, mechanical, and gas work, and homes in flood hazard areas. Almost every real kitchen or bathroom remodel touches plumbing or wiring. Yours will still need a permit, and splitting invoices to dodge the threshold isn't allowed.

Straight answers to what homeowners actually ask us at the office.

Do I pull my permit from the City of Sarasota or Sarasota County?

Your parcel decides, not your mailing address. Downtown, Lido, and Arlington Park are city; Siesta Key and Gulf Gate are county. We verify jurisdiction on the property appraiser's record and file with the right authority either way.

Does Florida's new $7,500 permit exemption cover my remodel?

Usually not. HB 803, effective July 1, 2026, excludes electrical, plumbing, structural, mechanical, and gas work, plus homes in flood hazard areas. A paint-and-hardware refresh might qualify. A real kitchen or bathroom remodel won't.

How long does a kitchen remodel take in Sarasota in 2026?

Plan on three to five months door to door. Design and selections take two to four weeks. Permitting typically adds two to four more, depending on jurisdiction and scope. Construction on a full kitchen runs six to ten weeks once materials are on site.

Can you remodel a bathroom in my Siesta Key condo?

Yes. We build the board packet, insurance, license, and scope drawings, and schedule around elevator reservations and quiet hours. Expect board review to add a few weeks up front, especially in buildings working through milestone repairs.

Will a remodel destroy my terrazzo floors?

Not if it's planned around them. We protect terrazzo through demolition and place islands and walls to avoid unnecessary cuts. If drain lines under the slab must be replaced, you'll see exactly where in the 3D model first.

Do you handle design, permits, and construction yourselves?

Yes, one team, one license. The 3D model you approve becomes the permit drawings, and the same project manager runs construction. You're never refereeing between a design studio and a subcontractor.

How fast is a tub-to-shower conversion?

Once materials arrive, most conversions finish in one to two weeks on site. Condo buildings can stretch that with board approvals and work-hour limits. It's typically the shortest project we run in Sarasota.