Serving the greater Tampa Bay area
Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, and Tile in St. Petersburg
You've saved for this kitchen and you want it done right. What's keeping you up is the part you can't control: handing your house to a crew you don't know, and hoping the job doesn't turn into the horror story your neighbor still talks about. That worry is earned. Let me tell you how we work, and you can decide if we're your people.
I'm Ricky Powers. 30+ years in the trade, and I still walk every job myself. Call us and you get me, not a call center.
What we do in a St. Pete kitchen
Cabinets and countertops, the backsplash, tile and flooring, paint and trim, new hardware, and a sink and faucet set where the old one sat. Everything you look at and put your hands on.
Old houses, and what they want from a kitchen
St. Petersburg has some of the best old housing stock in the bay. The bungalows in Historic Kenwood and the homes in the Old Northeast have real plaster, original wood, and kitchens laid out back when the kitchen was a small back room you shut the door on.
People buy those houses for the character, then worry that anything new will erase it. It doesn't have to. Door style, counter edge, tile size, and the finish on the pulls do most of the work of deciding whether a kitchen reads as original to the house or bolted on.
The mid-century blocks scattered through town are a different conversation. Simple, honest houses, usually with the first set of cabinets still hanging. Those want a clean, straightforward redo more than anything clever.
The water decides what we put in
This is the part I'd want to know if it were my house. St. Pete sits close to the bay, and salt air and humidity work on a kitchen year-round whether the room ever gets wet or not.
It shows up in the hardware first. Cheap plated pulls and faucet finishes pit and spot within a couple of seasons this close to the water, and there's no fixing them after. Cabinet boxes matter too. A plywood box and a properly sealed finish handle our humidity better than particleboard that swells at the toe kick. We pick for the climate you actually live in, and we'll tell you which upgrade earns its money here and which one is just a brochure.
Where the money goes
Cabinets are usually the biggest line, and the spread from stock to custom is wide. Counters come next, and a good slab set badly costs you twice. Then the smaller lines: backsplash, flooring, paint, hardware.
Counters can't be templated until the cabinets are hung and level, and then the shop has them for a while. That gap is the part nobody warns you about, and it's most of why a kitchen takes weeks and not a weekend.
One crew, start to finish
No handoffs. The crew that pulls your old cabinets sets your new ones and sweeps the floor the last day. We protect what we're not working on, keep the site clean, and keep you in the loop.
If we pull up flooring or take an old backsplash off and find something behind it, you'll hear it from me that day. And if your wish list and your budget don't line up, you'll hear that early too. Losing a job is easier to live with than taking it on a plan I know won't deliver.