Kitchen Remodeling in East Lake, FL

East Lake Road, the County Line and Pinellas County Permits

East Lake Road is the spine of the community, with Tampa Road at its southern end near Oldsmar and Keystone Road crossing to the north. As an unincorporated area, East Lake's permits are issued by Pinellas County, and licensed trades pull them for plumbing, electrical and structural work. We also serve Palm Harbor and Oldsmar. Planning a media wall too? Our post on designing a TV wall around a fireplace covers heat, height and wiring.

Two county parks frame daily life here. John Chesnut Sr. Park covers 255 acres along Lake Tarpon at 2200 East Lake Road South, with boardwalks, a boat ramp and a canoe trail, and the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center sits at 3940 Keystone Road. The East Lake Community Library is a designated Florida Butterfly Garden. Between those landmarks are the neighborhoods where we expect the work this page describes: oversize great rooms waiting for built-ins, garages with bare walls, and kitchens built around an island one size too small.

Get directions to the Lewis Ave shopRead customer reviews

East Lake Woodlands, Lake Tarpon and Brooker Creek's Edge

East Lake is unincorporated north Pinellas, lying east of Lake Tarpon and running along East Lake Road toward the Hillsborough County line, with the pine flatwoods of Brooker Creek Preserve on its eastern side. Its neighborhoods grew as planned golf and gated communities, East Lake Woodlands among the earliest, followed by subdivisions of larger two-story and single-story homes through the 1990s and 2000s. Kitchens from those decades have open plans, a center island that is often too small for the room, and stock cabinets with cathedral or raised-panel doors. Great rooms with high ceilings usually have a niche or blank wall for a television and very little built-in storage. Laundry rooms and garages tend to be generous in size but bare.

The census area is large: about 31.6 square miles, 28.9 of them land, holding 13,495 households in 2020, roughly 2.4 people to a household, and East Lake Woodlands alone is made up of 14 subdivisions. Much of the eastern edge stays wild because Brooker Creek Preserve, about 8,700 acres owned by Pinellas County and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, protects part of the county's drinking-water supply. Gated and golf communities here usually have architectural review committees, so before we draw any change that shows from outside, such as an outdoor kitchen on the lanai, we ask for your community's rules.

Planning a 71-Mile Project So the Install Happens Once

Because the drive is long, our first visit covers every room in the scope: kitchen, great room and utility spaces, with ceiling heights and outlet locations recorded. Working drawings and 3D models follow, and at this distance many owners review them by video, though the shop is open by appointment. Kitchen cabinets and great-room pieces leave Sarasota on the same truck, finished, so installation runs as one stretch. Island tops in stone are templated by the fabricator after the cabinets are set.