Kitchen remodeling in Bradenton and Sarasota
Cabinets, countertops, backsplash, flooring and the finish work that ties it all together. Run by the owner, with the same crew from demolition to the last piece of trim.
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Run by Nelvin Rivera, who has spent 7 years in remodeling and does this work with his own hands.
We cover five counties. Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Englewood, Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda — and everywhere in between.
Nelvin Rivera with his family. Multiservices Belloso LLC, Bradenton.
The kitchen remodeling contractor you are actually hiring
“Nobody is upset about the tile. They are upset that it is week six and there is still no sink.”
Seven years in remodeling — four in pool work, three in home interiors — and Nelvin runs your job himself. The person who measures your kitchen is the person standing in it every morning until it is finished.
A kitchen is the room a family cannot do without, and that is where most remodels go wrong. Not in the craftsmanship — in the stalls. A crew that vanishes for nine days, a countertop nobody ordered on time, a schedule that was never realistic to begin with. We quote a timeline we can actually hold and tell you the moment something changes it.
The crew is Nelvin and his brother — the same two people from the first day to the last. Roofing and electrical are the two things they do not take on; everything else inside the house is work Nelvin has done with his own hands.
What a kitchen remodel includes
From a cabinet-and-counter refresh to taking the room back to the walls.
Demolition and haul-out
Old cabinets, counters, backsplash and flooring out, with the rest of the house sealed off from the dust. Everything leaves in our truck, not into your driveway for a week.
Cabinets
New cabinets hung level and plumb to a wall that is neither, scribed to the ceiling, with doors and drawers adjusted so every gap on the run is the same. Or refaced. Or painted — three different budgets.
Countertops
Granite, quartz or butcher block, templated to the cabinets once they are set rather than guessed from a drawing. Cutouts, seams and overhangs planned before anyone cuts stone.
Backsplash and tile
The detail everyone looks at from eighteen inches away. Layout planned so cuts land in corners and behind the range, outlets boxed out cleanly, and the top edge finished properly.
Flooring
Tile, vinyl plank or laminate, run under the toe kick so the floor reads continuous. Old flooring out and the slab flattened first, because cabinets set on a wavy floor never sit right.
Drywall, trim and paint
Walls patched where the old cabinets came off, ceiling repaired where a soffit was removed, crown and baseboard run, and the whole room painted. All of it by the same crew.
A kitchen touches almost every trade we run, which is why it is the job that most rewards hiring one crew instead of four. See everything we remodel, or go straight to drywall and texture.
Cabinets: paint, reface or replace
Three very different budgets, and most people are quoted only the most expensive one.
Cabinets are the largest single line on almost every kitchen quote, which makes them the fastest place to save real money — if the boxes are sound. And in most houses out here they are. Builders used solid boxes and cheap doors, so what looks tired is usually the doors and the finish, not the cabinet itself.
Painting is the cheapest route by a wide margin. Doors come off, everything gets degreased, sanded and primed with a bonding primer, then sprayed. Same layout, same boxes, completely different room, in a few days. We do that work ourselves rather than sending it out.
Refacing sits in the middle. The boxes stay, but the doors and drawer fronts are replaced with new ones and the exposed sides and face frames are covered in matching material. You get a new door style and a new color without tearing the kitchen apart, and without the wait on a cabinet order.
Replacing is the right answer when the boxes are swollen from a leak, when the layout genuinely fights you, or when you want to change where things are. It is the most expensive and the most disruptive, and it is worth it when one of those three is true. It is not worth it just because the kitchen looks dated.
“Open a drawer and pull it all the way out. If the box is solid, you are looking at a much smaller job than you think.”
Countertops and backsplash
The two surfaces people touch and look at every single day.
Counters get templated after the cabinets are set and levelled, never off a drawing. A sixteenth of an inch out across a twelve-foot run turns into a visible gap at the wall, and stone does not forgive being cut twice. Cutouts for the sink and cooktop, the seam placement, the overhang and the edge profile all get decided before anything is fabricated.
Granite, quartz, or butcher block if that is the look you want. Once it is in, it gets shimmed dead level, supported where it overhangs, and sealed at the wall.
Then the backsplash. It is a small area and it is where a kitchen either looks finished or looks close enough. The layout starts from the range and the sink because that is where the eye goes, so full tiles land there and the cuts get pushed into the corners. Outlets boxed out square, the top edge finished with a proper trim or a caulked line, and the joint where tile meets counter caulked rather than grouted, because that joint moves.
Already bought your slab or your tile somewhere else? That is fine. We will install what you bought.
Decided before fabrication
- Where the seams land
- Edge profile and overhang
- Sink and cooktop cutouts
- Support under any span or bar top
- How the backsplash meets the counter
- Outlet and switch locations
Doing the kitchen and a bathroom together
If both are on the list, doing them in one run is cheaper and shorter than doing them a year apart.
They use the same trades in the same order — demolition, tile, cabinetry, counters, trim, paint. Run back to back, you pay the mobilization once, the protection and containment goes up once, and the material orders land together instead of twice with two sets of lead times.
It also means one crew and one schedule. The most common way a two-project year goes wrong is that the second contractor inherits the first one’s mess and nobody owns the result.
The practical version is usually the bathroom first, so the house keeps a working one while the kitchen is down — but we will sequence it around your house, not around ours.
Also part of the same job
Kitchen flooring usually runs into the rest of the house, so it is worth deciding early how far it goes. We install tile, vinyl plank and laminate as part of the remodel or on their own.
What a kitchen remodel costs
Kitchens have the widest price range of anything in a house, which is exactly why a number over the phone is worthless. Here is what actually decides yours.
- What happens to the cabinets. The biggest lever by far, and the one most people do not realize they have. Painting, refacing and replacing are three different budgets for the same room — often a difference of several times over. Everything else on this list matters less.
- Whether the layout changes. Keeping the sink, range and refrigerator where they are keeps the job contained. Moving any of them, or taking out a wall, turns a finish project into a construction project and stretches the schedule.
- The countertop material. A big swing with a big visual payoff. It also drives the schedule, because stone is templated after the cabinets go in and then fabricated, which is dead time in the middle of your job no matter who you hire.
- Size, and how many corners. Linear feet of cabinet run matters more than floor area. A galley with two straight runs is quicker than a small L-shape with an island, two corners and a pantry.
- What is behind and under it. Cabinets come off and the wall behind them is never finished. Old flooring under the run, a soffit somebody wants gone, a wall that is out of plumb enough to matter. Some of this only turns up on demolition day.
- Appliances and the sink. Whether they are being reused or replaced, and whether the new ones fit the old openings. A wider refrigerator or a farmhouse sink changes the cabinet run around it.
The estimate is free and the scope is in writing before anything comes out. It says what is included, what is not, and what happens if demolition turns something up. No deposit disappears into a job that never starts.
How the job goes
Step 1
We come measure it
Free, on your schedule. We measure, open a drawer to see what the boxes are really like, and ask what actually bothers you about the room.
Step 2
Options and a written price
Usually more than one: what paint or refacing would do, and what a full replacement would do. Scope, cost and a realistic timeline for each.
Step 3
Order before we demo
Cabinets and counters get ordered and confirmed before anything comes out, so your kitchen is not sitting gutted waiting on a delivery date.
Step 4
We build it
Demo, floor, cabinets, template, counters, backsplash, trim and paint. You get told what is happening each day and we walk it with you at the end.
Where we work
We are based in Bradenton and our remodeling work stays within about an hour of it. Most of these kitchens are original to houses built in the eighties and nineties — solid cabinet boxes, tired doors, and a soffit above them that everybody wants gone.
Manatee County
Bradenton, Palmetto, Lakewood Ranch, Parrish, Ellenton, Anna Maria Island, Holmes Beach, Bradenton Beach
Sarasota County
Sarasota, Venice, North Port, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Siesta Key, Longboat Key
Hillsborough County
Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Apollo Beach, Valrico, Plant City
Pinellas County
St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Seminole, Dunedin
Charlotte County
Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Rotonda West, Englewood
Questions people ask us
The ones that come up on nearly every estimate.
What does a kitchen remodel cost in Florida?
There is no honest single answer, because the same kitchen can be three different projects. Painting the cabinets you already have and replacing them with new ones are not variations of one job — they are separate budgets with a large gap between them.
So the first thing we do is look at what you actually have. If the boxes are solid, we will tell you so, even though it means quoting you a smaller job. Then you decide with real numbers in front of you instead of a range you found online.
Can you redo a kitchen for $30,000?
In this area, that budget generally covers a full remodel that keeps the existing layout — new cabinets, new countertops, backsplash, flooring, and the drywall and paint around it, with the sink and range staying where they are.
What tends to push past it is moving plumbing or taking out a wall, a large kitchen with a long cabinet run, or premium stone. What brings it well under is keeping the cabinet boxes and painting or refacing them.
Can you redo a kitchen for $10,000?
Not as a full replacement, and anyone promising that is either cutting something you will notice later or planning to find reasons to add to it.
What that budget does buy is a genuine transformation of the room you already have: cabinets painted or refaced, new countertops, new backsplash, new hardware and paint. Same layout, same boxes. For a lot of kitchens in this area that is honestly the better value, and it is the option most companies will not lead with because it is the smallest sale.
Should I reface my cabinets or replace them?
Open a drawer and pull it all the way out. If the box is solid and square, and the layout works for how you cook, refacing or painting will get you most of the way for a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the disruption.
Replace when the boxes are swollen from a leak, when the layout genuinely fights you every day, or when you want things in different places. Being tired of looking at them is not on its own a reason to spend the difference — and we will say that out loud at the estimate.
How long will my kitchen be out of use?
A cabinet painting or refacing job is usually under a week. A full remodel that keeps the layout is typically three to five weeks. Moving plumbing or removing a wall pushes it further.
The part people do not expect is the countertop gap. Stone is templated only after the cabinets are set, then fabricated, which is normally one to two weeks where the kitchen sits with no counters and no sink. Anyone who leaves that out of the timeline is not telling you the whole picture.
Can we stay in the house during the remodel?
Almost everyone does. We seal the kitchen off from the rest of the house and keep the dust contained, and the work happens during normal hours.
Set up a temporary kitchen somewhere else before we start — the refrigerator, microwave and coffee maker in the garage or dining room. We will tell you exactly which days you will have no sink so you can plan around them.
Do you install countertops and cabinets I bought elsewhere?
Yes. Plenty of people have already picked their cabinets or their slab, or got a price they like somewhere. We will install what you bought.
Talk to us before you order if you can. A quick measure catches the things that are expensive to discover later — a cabinet run that will not fit once the walls are actually measured, or a sink that does not suit the base cabinet you chose.
Do you do the backsplash and the flooring too?
Yes, both, with the same crew that does the rest. Tile, vinyl plank and laminate flooring, and tile backsplash including the cuts around outlets and the finished top edge.
Doing it together matters more than it sounds. Flooring goes in before the cabinets so the toe kick sits on it properly, and the backsplash goes in after the counters so it meets them cleanly. Split across two contractors, that order is the first thing to fall apart.
Do you work in condos?
Yes, and a good share of our work is condo kitchens. Associations usually require approval before work starts and set the hours crews can work, plus rules on noise, elevator use and how debris leaves the building.
Get those requirements before you collect quotes. We will work to them, but they affect both the schedule and the price, so everyone is better off knowing them up front.
Do I pick the materials or do you?
You pick. We will tell you what each choice costs in money and in time — some cabinet lines have long lead times, some stone takes longer to fabricate — and where spending more will actually be visible in the finished room.
Buy everything yourself if you prefer. If you would rather we handle it we can, but it is not a condition of hiring us.
Do you speak Spanish?
Yes. Hablamos español. Call, text or send photos in either language and you will get an answer in the same one.
What our clients say
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