Kitchens built for canal, cottage, and historic Delray.

Why Us

The only Delray Beach contractor who is also a certified energy engineer

Randolph Scott Bell is the only Palm Beach County contractor who is also a certified energy engineer — the owner inspects every Delray Beach kitchen job himself, and every remodel carries a written one-year workmanship warranty. Whether the home is a block from the Intracoastal or set back in a historic bungalow neighborhood, the same owner walks the job and signs off on the details other contractors leave to a foreman.

Permitting, Preservation & Wind Load

The City's own building department

Delray Beach is an incorporated city and runs its own building department, separate from the Palm Beach County Building Division — unlike Loxahatchee and The Acreage, which are unincorporated and permit through the county. A kitchen remodel that moves a load-bearing wall, adds or resizes a window or exterior door, or touches electrical, plumbing, or gas needs a City of Delray Beach permit; a licensed contractor must hold it and be present at final inspection. We contact the City of Delray Beach's building department directly for current submittal requirements rather than assuming a process that applies somewhere else in the county.

A step most kitchen remodels elsewhere in Palm Beach County never encounter: Delray Beach has several city-designated local historic districts — the Old School Square Historic Arts District, Del-Ida Park, Nassau Park, the West Settlers Historic District, and the Marina Historic District — overseen by the city's Historic Preservation Board. A kitchen remodel that changes anything visible from the street on a home inside one of these districts needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from that Board, in addition to the building permit.

Delray Beach is also a coastal Palm Beach County city sitting in the Wind-Borne Debris Region under the Florida Building Code. Any remodel adding or resizing an exterior opening needs a wind-load-rated product carrying a valid Florida Product Approval, confirmed for the specific address before we quote — we don't publish a single design wind-speed figure for the whole city, because coastal and inland parcels within Delray Beach carry different numbers and guessing one would be irresponsible.

Communities & HOA

From Tropic Isle to Del-Ida Park

We remodel kitchens across Tropic Isle's waterfront canal streets on the east side, the historic bungalow blocks of Del-Ida Park, the quieter Lake Ida area, Osceola Park's mixed bungalow-and-infill streets, and Country Club Acres. Purely interior kitchen work — cabinets, counters, layout inside the existing footprint — generally does not trigger HOA architectural review in Delray Beach's non-historic neighborhoods.

An exterior change — a bumped-out window, an enlarged opening — is a different question, and it runs through whichever review body actually applies: an HOA or condo association's architectural-review committee in a standard neighborhood, or the city's Historic Preservation Board and its Certificate of Appropriateness process for a home inside Del-Ida Park or one of Delray Beach's other historic districts, regardless of whether that home also has an HOA. We confirm which side of that line a given remodel falls on before we permit, so the project doesn't stall between two boards.

Proof

What we can — and can't — claim in Delray Beach

We don't have a confirmed named Delray Beach kitchen-remodeling project on record yet, and we'd rather say that plainly than dress one up. What we lead with instead is the credential stack: Florida Certified General Contractor license CGC1528750 — a statewide certification that needs no additional local licensure to operate in Delray Beach — EPA Lead-Safe Certified Firm #NAT-F122701-2, BBB A+ accreditation, and a written one-year workmanship warranty on every job.