Twenty years of finished South Florida homes, every one pulled and inspected under CGC1530409.
We build four things well and don't pretend to do everything. Here's the range, with real projects behind each.
Anyone can post a gallery. The hard part is knowing what you're actually looking at. A portfolio tells you more about a contractor than any review ever will, but only if you read it right. Here's how we'd read ours if we were the ones hiring, and what the projects on this page are really telling you.
The first question with any contractor gallery is the boring one nobody asks out loud: is this even their work? A lot of remodeling sites run on stock photography and images lifted from tile manufacturers. It's not always dishonest. Sometimes a company is new, or the good jobs happened under a previous business name, or the crew that built them is long gone.
Everything on this page was built by Miami First Remodeling under license CGC1530409. We took the photos, we know the owners, and in most cases we can put you in touch with them. That matters because a portfolio you can verify is the only kind worth trusting. When you're shortlisting contractors, ask each one point-blank whether the work is theirs and whether you can visit a finished project. The pause before they answer tells you plenty.
The single biggest thing that separates a clean finished project from a compromised one is how many hands it passed through. When a general contractor bids your job, then hands the framing to one crew, the plumbing to another, the tile to a third, and never sets foot on site, the seams show. Literally. The shower niche lands in the wrong stud bay. The cabinet run stops two inches short of the wall. The addition roof doesn't quite tie into the old one and starts leaking the first storm season.
We run a 38-person in-house crew. The same company that pours your footing hangs your last cabinet, and the people doing it work for us, not for a staffing app. That's why the details on this page hold together. When you look at a kitchen here and the counter seam falls in a spot that makes sense, or the tile pattern carries through a doorway without a break, that's not luck. That's one team that had to answer to itself the whole way through.
Every remodel looks good the week it's finished. Fresh grout, no dust, staged furniture. The real test is what a project looks like after three or four South Florida summers have worked it over. Salt air corrodes hardware and fasteners. Humidity finds every gap in the waterproofing. The temperature swing between an AC-cold interior and 95-degree afternoons moves materials in ways that dry climates never deal with.
That's why some of the projects we're proudest of are the older ones. A kitchen from 2021 with cabinet hinges that still close soft. A bathroom whose grout hasn't gone black in the corners. An addition that's held up through storm season after storm season. When you tour a contractor's portfolio, ask how old the projects are, and ask if you can see something that's had a few years to show its flaws. New photos are cheap. A job that aged well is the whole point.
You'll notice this portfolio covers kitchens, bathrooms, room additions, ADUs, and full-home work. That's deliberate. A contractor who only does one thing gets very good at that one thing and very stuck the moment your project doesn't fit the template. Remodeling in older Miami homes is almost never a template. You open a wall in a 1950s Coral Gables house and find cast iron plumbing, knob-and-tube remnants, and a header that was never sized for the span it's carrying.
Breadth across project types means we've hit those surprises before and know how to price and schedule around them. It also means when your kitchen remodel turns into 'while we're at it, can we bump out the wall,' we can actually do the addition instead of handing you off. The variety on this page isn't us bragging about being generalists. It's evidence that we've solved a lot of different problems in a lot of different houses.
Here's what a gallery can't show you: whether any of it was permitted. In Miami-Dade, unpermitted work is a real liability. It surfaces when you sell, it can void insurance after a storm, and it can force you to tear out finished work to expose what's behind it. A structural addition or an ADU that skipped the permit is a problem that follows the house.
Every structural project we build gets engineered and permitted to current Miami-Dade code, including wind load for our hurricane zone. Impact windows, tie-downs, the whole envelope. You can't see the engineering in a finished photo, which is exactly why you should ask about it. When you look at an addition on this page, know that the invisible part, the part that keeps the roof on in a Cat 3, was signed off by an engineer and inspected by the county.
We price our projects fixed and put the number in the contract before we start. The reason that connects to a portfolio is simple: a company that consistently delivers finished, high-quality work at a price it committed to up front is a company whose bids you can trust. Contractors who lowball to win the job and then bleed you with change orders don't tend to have long, clean portfolios. They have unhappy owners and unfinished jobs.
The projects here got built for what we said they'd cost, and got handed back on the timeline we committed to. That's part of what a portfolio is actually proving. Not just that we can make a kitchen look nice, but that we can scope it honestly, price it fairly, and finish it without the budget quietly doubling. When you're comparing bids, the cheapest number on paper is rarely the cheapest project by the end.
A portfolio should sit on top of the boring paperwork, not instead of it. We've held license CGC1530409 since the company started in 2006. BBB A+ rating since 2008. Two million in insurance. EPA Lead-Safe certified, which matters more than people realize in Miami's older housing stock, where lead paint is common in anything built before 1978.
None of that shows up in a glossy after photo, but all of it is what stands behind the work. Insurance means a mistake on your project is our problem, not yours. Lead-Safe certification means we handle demo in an older home without turning your family's air into a hazard. When you look at any project here, the finish is the visible half. The license, the insurance, and the certifications are the half that lets you sleep during the build.
If something on this page looks like the direction you want, the next step is straightforward. Reach out, tell us the project type and the neighborhood, and send a few photos of the space as it is now. We'll walk it with you, in person for most of Miami-Dade, and give you an honest read on scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed price. If we think what you want doesn't fit your budget, we'll tell you that too, before you've spent a dime.
We can also point you to a finished project close to what you're imagining, sometimes one you can visit. Seeing a real kitchen you can open the drawers on beats any photo. The work on this page started as a phone call and a walkthrough exactly like the one we're offering you. If you want yours to end up in the next version of this gallery, that's where it begins.
The questions we hear most often during the first consult. If yours isn't here, Gil himself reads every form submission.
Usually, yes. Many of our past clients are happy to have a serious prospective owner walk their finished kitchen, bath, or addition. Tell us the type of project you're planning and we'll try to line up a visit to something close to it. Standing in a real space beats any photo on a screen.
Every project on this page was designed, permitted, and built by Miami First Remodeling under license CGC1530409. We took the photos ourselves, we know the homeowners, and in most cases we can connect you with them. No stock images, no work borrowed from anyone else's portfolio.
Reach out with your project type, your neighborhood, and a few photos of the current space. We'll do a walkthrough, give you an honest scope and timeline, and put a fixed price in writing. If a project like the ones here fits, we'll show you the closest example we've built.
It depends on scope. A bathroom typically runs a few weeks, a full kitchen gut longer, and a room addition or ADU longer still because of engineering, permitting, and inspections. We give you a real timeline before we start and hold to it.
Yes. The projects here span Coral Gables, Pinecrest, Brickell, Bay Harbor, Aventura, and points between. We've been building across the county since 2006 and know the local permitting, soil, and code requirements neighborhood by neighborhood.
We can take you from a rough idea to finished plans, including layout, materials, and finishes, and coordinate engineering and permitting for structural work. If you already have an architect or designer, we build from their drawings just as easily. Either way, one team carries it through to the last detail.
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