Condo kitchens · Boca Raton, FL

What Can You Change in a Condo Kitchen in Boca Raton?

What can you change in a condo kitchen in Boca Raton? What belongs to the unit is yours to change within the association's rules, while a material change to the building goes through the approval your declaration sets out. Florida law splits a condominium into the unit, which you own, and the common elements, which every owner shares, and the declaration draws the line. Cabinets, countertops and appliances inside the unit are yours to replace and to insure.

Yours to replace and insure: The unit; · cabinets, countertops, appliances
Shared by every owner: The common elements; · the declaration draws the line

What can you change in a condo kitchen in Boca Raton: a pale stone counter with an undermount sink and a chrome faucet, tall flat panel cabinets, and a window with a dark frame

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Where the Unit Ends and the Building Begins

Florida's condominium statute defines both halves, and neither definition is a list. A unit is the part of the property subject to exclusive ownership, as specified in the declaration. The common elements are the portions not included in any unit. So the answer for any single wall or pipe lives in one recorded document.

Walk through what a kitchen touches. The cabinets and the counter sit inside the room, and the sink drains into a line that may also serve the kitchens stacked above and below it. A range hood may vent through a wall facing the outside. And the floor under the tile may be the ceiling of the unit underneath.

None of that can be settled by looking. Two galleys of identical size in two buildings can fall on opposite sides of the line, because each building recorded its own declaration. Read the part that describes where the unit's boundaries run before any plan is drawn.

What the Building's Policy Leaves to You

The sharpest line in the statute is drawn by insurance, and it names the kitchen. The property policy an association carries has to leave out floor, wall and ceiling coverings, electrical fixtures, appliances, and built-in cabinets and countertops that sit within the boundaries of a unit and serve only that unit. The same sentence ends by making that property, and the insurance on it, the responsibility of the unit owner.

Read from a remodel, that is most of what you are about to buy, so a new kitchen raises the value your own policy has to cover, not the building's.

The statute adds a second rule, and this one is about the work. When damage is not paid by insurance and it comes from negligence, or from failing to follow the declaration or the association's rules, the cost falls on the owner, and the people it counts include tenants, guests and invitees. Work done outside the rules can leave its damage with the unit that ordered it.

A tall narrow pantry cabinet standing open with glass jars on its shelves, beside a stainless wall oven, oak shaker cabinets and a dark countertop in the foreground

What a Change to the Building Takes

Moving the sink to another wall, opening the kitchen to the living room or cutting a new vent through an outside wall can each reach into the common elements, depending on where your declaration draws the line. When one does, the statute sets the terms. There can be no material alteration or substantial addition to the common elements except in the manner the declaration provides, and where the declaration is silent, 75 percent of the total voting interests of the association must approve before work begins.

That reverses the usual order. In a building, the first question is which side of the line each move lands on, because a plan that needs the association's approval is a different project from one that stays inside the unit.

A kitchen that keeps the sink, the range and the walls where they are rarely has to ask it.

The Building Around a Boca Raton Kitchen

When the City adopted its building recertification program in 2021, 242 buildings in the City met the criteria, and inspections were prioritized across four zones, starting on the barrier island and moving west. Our own office, at 20283 State Road 7, Ste 412, Boca Raton, FL 33498, sits outside all four zones, in unincorporated Palm Beach County. Each report covers structure and electrical, the two systems a kitchen plan runs into when it moves a wall or adds circuits. Florida adds a duty of its own: within 45 days of receiving a milestone inspection report, the association has to send every owner the inspector's summary. If your building has one, read it before planning to open anything that is not yours.

A narrow galley between two runs of cream shaker cabinets carried to the ceiling, with a brass faucet over an undermount sink and a tall window at the end of the aisle

Which rung of the price ladder a condo kitchen lands on, and what each rung covers, is set out on Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton.

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The Order a Condo Kitchen Gets Planned In

The video walks the line in the order a building tests it: what the declaration makes part of the unit, what the association's insurance leaves to the owner, and when a change to the common elements needs the approval the declaration sets out.

Common Questions

How much does a condo kitchen remodel cost in Boca Raton?

Most condo kitchens here run under twenty linear feet, and a complete rebuild that keeps the layout lands between $15,000 and $24,000: cabinets, countertop, backsplash, demolition, disposal and installation. Moving the sink or a wall puts the job in a different band.

How do I get my building's declaration in Boca Raton before planning a kitchen?

Ask the association in writing: Florida gives it 10 working days to make official records, the declaration included, available to an owner within 45 miles or in the same county. An association with 25 or more units also has to post the declaration on a website or app.

What is the new Florida law on condos, and does it reach a Boca Raton kitchen?

Since 2022, Florida requires a milestone inspection of condo buildings three stories or taller: an architect or engineer inspects each at 30 years of age, or 25 where the local agency decides nearness to salt water calls for it, and every 10 years after. It assesses the structure, not your cabinets.

Recent Kitchen Remodeling Projects in Boca Raton

Kitchen opened to the living room, with a seated island Open concept kitchen remodeling
Full-height cabinetry and a waterfall island Luxury kitchen remodeling
Galley kitchen in a condo, under twenty linear feet Small kitchen remodel
New shaker fronts on the original boxes Kitchen cabinet refacing

Floor-to-ceiling run with a tall pantry Custom cabinetry
Quartz with a waterfall end on the island Quartz countertop installation
Granite perimeter with a raised breakfast bar Granite countertop installation
Counters at two heights, open underneath Accessible kitchen remodeling

The declaration settles which moves are yours before anyone prices them. A plan that stays inside the unit is priced like any other kitchen; one that crosses the line waits for the association first. What a rebuild under twenty linear feet costs here, what a building asks for before a crew arrives, and when moving a sink or a wall turns into a different project are set out on Kitchen Remodeler Boca Raton. Keep your declaration open beside it while you read.

Send us the page that draws the line.

Send the section of your declaration that describes the boundaries of the unit, with one line about what you want to change, by email or to our office at 20283 State Road 7, Ste 412, Boca Raton, FL 33498. We will tell you which moves in the plan depend on that section.

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