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Marlin Basin Kitchen
The kitchen in the film. We traded three sliding windows for one steel wall and let a fourteen-foot slab of Calacatta do the talking.
Design-build remodeling · Coral Gables
Watch the room become itself.
A 1994 kitchen in Gables by the Sea. Eleven weeks, one camera move. Scroll to build it.
Demolition & structure
Week 3.
Down to block and trusses. Three openings cut and framed for a window wall. Rough plumbing and electrical in, inspected.
Plaster, steel, stone
Week 8.
Walls skimmed white, steel windows glazed, cabinetry scribed to the block. The island is templated, cut and carried in as three slabs.
Keys handed over · March 2026
Week 11.Home.
On the week we promised, at the price we wrote down.
The firm
We rebuild the rooms South Florida built too fast. One team draws it, permits it and builds it, so the room on the drawing is the room you walk into.
- Rooms finished since 2009
- 214
- Median weeks on site, full kitchen
- 11
- Of our last 33 projects, handed over on the promised week
- 31
- Florida Certified General Contractor
- CGC-SAMPLE-0418
Selected work · 2024–2026
Four rooms
we gave back.
02
Collins Galley
Seven feet wide and it stays seven feet wide. The original terrazzo was under two layers of tile.
03
The mitre, Marlin Basin
Three slabs from one block, numbered at the quarry, so the vein runs over the corner without a break.
04
Granada Residence
A 1926 house gutted badly in the eighties. We put the proportions back, opened the great room to the loggia and rebuilt every system behind the plaster.
Your turn to do the demolition
Drag 1996
out of the room.
Same walls, same window position, same morning sun. We opened the glass block to a full-height steel window, lost the step-up tub and turned the shower into the one loud thing in the room.
Scope & prices
What we take on,
and what it costs.
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Kitchens
Full gut and rebuild. Shop-built millwork, slab stone, moved plumbing, new openings, impact glazing.
from $95k10–16 weeks on site
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Baths
Primary suites and secondary baths. Curbless showers, slab and handmade tile, new windows, floor heat.
from $48k6–10 weeks on site
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Whole home
1920s to 1990s houses. Additions, structure, roof, every system behind the walls, interiors and terrace.
from $450k7–14 months on site
Ranges come from our last 33 completed projects, 2023–2026. Your proposal is a fixed price with a week-by-week schedule attached. If we miss the handover week for a reason that is ours, we pay you $500 a day until we hand over.
Week by week
Eleven weeks,
written down first.
This is the actual schedule from the kitchen in the film. Nothing is demolished until every cabinet, slab and hinge has a delivery date, which is why the site never sits empty.
Before week 1
- WalkthroughAn hour on site with an architect. Written scope and a realistic range within a week. No charge.
- Design, 5 weeksMeasured drawings, 3D, every finish chosen. Ends in a fixed price, not an estimate.
- Permits & ordering, 6–9 weeksCity review runs while stone, steel windows and appliances are ordered and shop millwork is built.
Protect & demolishWeek 1 · floors and AC sealed, room stripped, debris off site daily
Structure & openingsWeeks 2–3 · block cut, tie-beams and headers, framing
Rough-in & inspectionsWeeks 3–4 · plumbing, electrical, AC, city sign-offs
Close up & plasterWeeks 5–6 · insulation, board, level-5 skim, ceiling
Floors & steel windowsWeeks 6–7 · limestone set, impact steel glazed
CabinetryWeeks 7–8 · shop-built oak delivered, set and scribed
StoneWeeks 8–10 · laser template, fabrication, install day
Fixtures, paint, appliancesWeek 10 · everything switched on and tested
Punch list & keysWeek 11 · walk-through with you, deep clean, handover
4.9 out of 5 from 112 reviews
Google and Houzz · most recent September 4, 2026
“The proposal was a fixed number and eleven weeks later the final invoice was that number. They texted a photo every Friday with the week circled on the schedule.”
“Our board is difficult. They handled every submission, the elevator bookings and the neighbors downstairs. We were in Maine the entire time and came back to a finished kitchen.”
“I asked three contractors how long a bathroom takes. Two said ‘it depends.’ These guys handed me a nine-week chart and then hit it.”
“They found the original 1926 beams above a dropped ceiling on the first visit and redrew the whole great room around them. Thirteen months, no surprises on price.”
Chapter two · Marlin Basin Residence
Then the restof the house.
Whole home · Coral Gables · 2026
6,100 sq ft.14 months.One team.
Golden hour, the first evening home
Your turn.
The first visit is an hour on site with an architect, not a salesperson.
Contact
Walk us through
the house.
You get a written scope and a realistic range within a week of the visit. No charge, no follow-up calls unless you ask for them.
(305) 555-0164 studio@tabbyandrift.example 4410 Bird Road Annex, Coral Gables, FL 33146 Monday to Friday, 8 to 5 · Site visits by appointmentWhere we work
Within forty minutes of the shop, so a project lead is on your site every day.
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