Pelican Bay · North Naples · Kitchen Specialists
Pelican Bay
Kitchen Remodeling
Done Right.
The Short Version, Up Front.
What It Costs
$45K – $180K
Good, Better, and Best tiers priced against Pelican Bay comps — not a generic Naples average.
How Long It Takes
6–10 weeks
Contract to walk-through, permits included. Priority scheduling compresses to 4–6 weeks at +20%.
How It Starts
Free LiDAR + 3D + Fixed Bid
One 30-minute session in your kitchen or our showroom. You leave with a render and a real number.
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Three Ways To Do This
Pick the Tier That Matches
Your Hold Horizon.
Good — $45K
The strategic refresh.
Keeps your footprint, replaces everything a buyer touches: semi-custom full-overlay cabinets, premium quartz with a mitered edge, designer ceramic backsplash, layered dimmable lighting. The right call for villa owners in good-bones sections who plan to stay put five years or more.
Better — $105K
Where the comps point.
Full custom inset cabinetry, natural quartzite, soffit gone and the ceiling opened to nine feet, the island expanded to real seating. This is the finish level the sold listings share — the tier we recommend for most Pelican Bay single-family homes selling inside five years.
Best — $180K
The Bay Colony standard.
Commissioned or bespoke inset cabinetry, rare marble or exotic slab, a full-height stone feature wall, complete structural reconfiguration, architectural lighting. Built for the estates and beachfront towers where the finish itself is part of the address.
The Numbers Behind the Advice
What Pelican Bay Values Say
About Your Kitchen.
Median residence values, compiled from NABOR MLS activity and public sale records. The trend line is why we scale kitchen budgets here the way we do.
2021
$1.10M
2022
$1.30M
2023
$1.40M
2024
$1.46M
2025
$1.50M
2026 PROJ
$1.53M
The community-wide median hides the split that matters: updated interiors are absorbing nearly all of the appreciation, while original-condition listings trade at a widening discount and sit more than twice as long. In a neighborhood where the lot, the beach access, and the tram are identical for every owner, the kitchen is the variable buyers pay for — and the one you control.
One Community, Many Rulebooks
Where You Live in Pelican Bay
Changes the Project.
Pelican Bay Woods
Where the community began in 1979. Quarter-to-half-acre lots and the deepest supply of untouched late-70s and 80s kitchens — closed footprints, perimeter soffits, oak everywhere. No section gains more per remodel dollar.
Oakmont
A 1987 villa pocket off Oakmont Parkway where the renovation gap is visible in every listing cycle: updated villas command clear premiums over identical floor plans next door still wearing their original kitchens.
Jamestown & Georgetown
Custom-home streets from the 1990s with larger-than-average kitchens and better original finishes. The trap here is the proportions — 90s cabinet runs and appliance openings that force replacement over refacing.
Cambridge Club
Well-kept early-90s single-family homes where the bones usually justify a Good-tier refresh instead of a gut — one of the few Pelican Bay sections where we regularly talk owners into spending less.
Bay Colony
The gated enclave within the enclave. Beachfront estates and tower residences where budgets run multiples of the community median and the Bay Colony Club adds its own approval layer on top of everything else.
The High-Rise Corridor
Waterford, Montenero, St. Raphael, Cap Ferrat, Salerno, Crescent and their neighbors. Weekday-only demo windows, mandatory elevator protection, building-specific insurance minimums, and stack walls that decide your layout.
Villa & Coach Home Sections
Dozens of attached-home associations, each with its own board, work-hour rules, and contractor registration. Shared walls mean noise scheduling matters; shared roofs mean venting changes need association sign-off.
Season vs. Off-Season
Several buildings restrict demolition during peak winter months. We sequence tower projects October through April around each building’s calendar — and book the elevator before the cabinets are even ordered.
Teardown Streets
Since 2016 the rebuild wave has reset the comp ceiling on several single-family streets. If new construction is rising next door, your kitchen spec should answer it — that context goes into every bid we write.
Scope of Work
What Actually Changes
In the Remodel.
Cabinetry
Plywood boxes, dovetail drawers, soft-close as a baseline. Painted finishes in warm whites and greige lead the market here, with walnut accents on islands. Inset doors at the Better tier and above.
Stone
Quartz carries the Good tier; quartzite — Taj Mahal, Mont Blanc — owns the middle; and Bay Colony work goes to bookmatched marble and full-height slab walls. Every slab hand-selected with you at the yard.
Appliance Integration
We build cabinetry to your appliance schedule — panel-ready integration, precise cutouts, correct ventilation offsets. The catch in older Pelican Bay homes is that 90s-era openings rarely fit today’s 48-inch units without a cabinet re-run.
Layout & Structure
Soffit removal and ceiling height are the highest-leverage structural moves in this community. Wall openings to dining and living spaces follow — engineered, permitted, and association-approved before demo day.
Lighting
Recessed, pendant, and under-cabinet on independent dimming zones. Fixture packages scale by tier from Visual Comfort up to bespoke pieces for estate work.
The Invisible Layer
Updated supply lines, correct-gauge circuits, proper ventilation. In homes approaching fifty years old, the remodel is the moment to bring what’s behind the walls current — while they’re already open.
Why Pelican Bay Kitchens Are Their Own Discipline
A Community Built in Layers —
Remodeled the Same Way.
From the street, Pelican Bay reads as one address. From a contractor’s desk, it’s dozens of independent associations layered under the Pelican Bay Foundation — each with its own registration process, insurance thresholds, and rules about when a demo hammer can swing. Knowing which rulebook applies to your address is half the job, and it’s why our Pelican Bay bids arrive accurate the first time.
The community itself was a deliberate act of restraint: 2,300+ acres assembled in the early 1970s, developed around a protected mangrove estuary rather than over it, with the beach reached by tram instead of road. Homebuilding rolled north-to-south in waves — Woods in the late 70s, the villa pockets and Oakmont through the 80s, the custom streets and the high-rise corridor through the 90s and early 2000s. Each wave left behind its own kitchen: its own footprint, its own ceiling height, its own idea of where a refrigerator belongs.
That layering is exactly why a template remodel fails here. A Woods ranch, an Oakmont villa, and a Montenero tower residence need three different plans, three different logistics packages, and three different budgets — even at the same finish level. Our LiDAR scan captures your kitchen’s real geometry, our comp model prices it against your section’s sales, not the community average, and the fixed bid you sign reflects both.
See Your Pelican Bay Kitchen Before You Build It.
Free LiDAR scan · Photo-real 3D render · Fixed bid · 30 minutes
Straight Answers
Pelican Bay Owners
Ask Us This.
Who actually approves my kitchen remodel — the Foundation or my association?
Your own association. The Pelican Bay Foundation manages the beach, tram, and common amenities; interior work is governed by the residential association your home belongs to. Single-family sections are typically permissive, villa associations add work-hour and noise rules, and each high-rise runs its own approval packet, insurance certificate, and elevator reservation process. We prepare and submit all of it as part of the job.
How do you set prices for Pelican Bay specifically?
Every community we serve gets its own comp model. For Pelican Bay we track section-level sales — what renovated homes closed for versus original-condition equivalents — and scale the three tiers so your finish level matches what buyers in your part of the community demonstrably pay for. The planner on this page runs the same model live.
I’m in a tower. What’s different about a high-rise kitchen remodel?
Three things: the schedule (weekday-only demo windows and elevator bookings), the paperwork (building-specific insurance minimums and vendor registration), and the plumbing stacks (wet walls that can’t move without engineering and board review). We plan tower projects around all three from day one — and we sequence them in the off-season months when buildings allow the most working hours.
Is refacing my existing cabinets a smart middle path?
Rarely in this community. Refacing preserves the exact geometry that dates these kitchens — the soffit, the eight-foot ceiling, the undersized appliance openings. Buyers see it immediately. If budget is the constraint, our Good tier replaces the boxes within your existing footprint and returns meaningfully more at resale than any reface.
Can my kitchen fit a modern 48-inch built-in refrigerator?
Usually only after cabinet reconstruction. Original Pelican Bay kitchens were framed for the 36-inch units of their era; today’s 48-inch built-ins need a wider, taller opening with specific clearances and ventilation. The LiDAR scan tells us in minutes whether your run can be rebuilt around the appliance you want.
When should I start if I want it finished before season?
Count backward: a Better-tier project runs 6–10 weeks including permitting, and custom cabinetry carries the longest lead time — which is why we place those orders at contract signing. For a kitchen ready by Thanksgiving, contracts signed by late summer are comfortable; towers with seasonal work restrictions need earlier starts.
Does a remodel raise my Collier County property taxes?
For a homesteaded primary residence, Florida’s Save Our Homes cap limits assessed-value growth to 3% a year regardless of interior improvements. Non-homesteaded properties can see adjustment at reassessment, though interior kitchen work without added square footage rarely moves the number materially. Your CPA gets the final word.
What are InvisaCook and Designer Stone Panels, and are they allowed here?
InvisaCook is induction cooking hidden entirely beneath your stone countertop — no visible cooktop, no gas line, no venting change, which is exactly why no Pelican Bay association has ever objected. Designer Stone Panels are backlit translucent onyx and marble feature walls. We hold Florida-exclusive rights to both, and both can be added to any tier from the planner above.
One Session.
One Scan.
One Real Number.
Bring us your Pelican Bay kitchen — Woods ranch, Oakmont villa, or beachfront tower. In one free 30-minute planning session we LiDAR-scan the space, show you a photo-realistic render of the finished kitchen, and hand you a fixed-price bid built on your section’s comps. No estimate ranges, no sales follow-up drip.