Kitchen Remodeling in Dunedin, FL

Three Trips From Sarasota: Measure, Review, Install

Trip one is the measure, with notes on condo rules or historic trim as needed. We then prepare working drawings and a 3D model; trip two is an optional review at our Sarasota shop by appointment, or we do it by video. Cabinets are built and finished in our shop, and trip three is delivery and installation over consecutive days. Furniture pieces can often travel with us in either direction, with a fee for heavy items. Licensed trades handle any plumbing or electrical changes.

Scottish Roots, Pinellas Trail Bungalows and St. Joseph Sound Condos

Named by Scottish settlers after the Gaelic form of Edinburgh, Dunedin still celebrates that heritage with its Highland Games and pipe bands. Downtown, the Pinellas Trail runs past early twentieth-century frame houses and bungalows whose kitchens have been reworked many times, often leaving uneven floors, low windows and mixed trim. Along the water, mid-rise condominiums from the 1970s and 1980s look across St. Joseph Sound toward Honeymoon and Caladesi islands; their kitchens are compact galleys and their baths have low builder vanities. Salt air off the sound and long months with units closed up are hard on finishes, hinges and wood furniture alike. Owners here often ask for comfort-height counters, drawers instead of deep shelves, and pieces refinished rather than replaced.

Dunedin's building history starts earlier than most of north Pinellas. The settlement was Jonesboro until two Scotsmen, J.O. Douglas and James Somerville, renamed it when applying for a post office; the Orange Belt Railway, Pinellas County's first railroad, arrived in 1888, and the Pinellas Trail now follows its old roadbed through downtown. The J.O. Douglas House dates from 1880 and Andrews Memorial Chapel from 1888. Houses from the town's early decades often sit on wood floor framing that has settled unevenly, so we build base cabinets on adjustable legs hidden behind the toe kick and check the floor at several points before setting the first box.

Main Street, the Causeway and City of Dunedin Permits

Downtown Main Street, the marina and the Dunedin Causeway out to the state parks are the town's anchors, and spring training brings Toronto Blue Jays fans each year. Dunedin is incorporated, so permit questions for addresses inside city limits go to the City of Dunedin. We also serve Palm Harbor and Clearwater. For keeping furniture sound near the water, read our wood furniture care guide for salt-air homes.

Dunedin incorporated as a town in 1899 and became a city in 1926, and it still runs its own building department, so permits inside city limits are issued by the city rather than by Pinellas County. The 2020 Census counted 21,905 housing units and a median age of 56.7, with about a third of residents 65 or older. Along Edgewater Drive, where the Fenway Hotel faces the sound, and on the streets around Hammock Park, we expect both kinds of Dunedin kitchen work: the period house that needs careful fitting and the condo that needs better reach.

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