Renovate Palm Beach has published more than five hundred kitchens and bathrooms in Palm Beach County over the last decade. For most of that time, our answers to client questions lived in voice memos, text threads, and forty-five-minute walk-throughs in someone's hallway. This Journal is where those answers go now — written down, edited, and easy to share with the next homeowner asking the same question.
We're starting with a single commitment: publish only what we actually know. Every entry in this Journal is grounded in projects we've shipped and scopes we've quoted — no aggregated tips, no sponsored roundups, no SEO filler. If we haven't remodeled fifty of something, we haven't earned the right to write about it.
What you'll read here
Three strands, all practical:
Kitchen and bath costs in Palm Beach County — what a Boca primary-suite gut actually runs, why a Wellington custom-kitchen quote is $40,000 higher than a Jupiter one, and how to read the difference between a fixed-price proposal and a "ballpark range" that isn't one. When we publish a number, it's tied to a project we built in the last twenty-four months.
Materials, fixtures, and the details that quietly determine how a room ages — slab-marble shower walls in a salt-air environment, brushed-brass hardware on the east side of A1A, panel-ready refrigeration at an island, waterfall miters on quartzite. The unglamorous stuff: waterproofing, ventilation sized for Florida humidity, hurricane-rated glass that triggers when you open up a kitchen wall.
Process and permitting across the twelve cities we serve. Boca's Development Services Department moves differently than the Town of Palm Beach. Country-club ARBs in Royal Palm Yacht Club don't use the same review template as St. Andrews. We'll publish notes on what to expect from each jurisdiction — and what to file before the contractor even shows up.
What we won't publish
No "10 trends for 2026" lists. No copied product roundups dressed up as guides. No pieces pitched by brand reps asking for placement. No AI-generated filler.
One editor, one standard
Every piece goes through a single editor before it publishes — our lead project manager, who's walked more than 180 job sites since 2019. If she can't recall a real example of the point the piece is making, the piece doesn't ship. That's the bar.
We'd rather publish eight posts a year that every Palm Beach County homeowner should read than eighty that disappear into the feed. Depth is the design; brevity is the taste.
Where to start
If you're weighing a kitchen remodel, the fastest thing on the site is our Kitchen Remodeling overview — three tiered scopes, representative budgets, what's included at each tier. If you're in Boca Raton specifically, the Boca Raton service-area page covers neighborhood-by-neighborhood notes and the Development Services Department timeline we see in practice.
And if you're past the reading stage, the fastest path is the consultation form. Twenty-minute phone call, forty-five minutes on-site within a week, written fixed-price scope within seven business days of that walk. No pitch.
Thanks for reading. We'll see you in the next one.