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Inside a Coral Gables home: kitchen, bar, and walk in closets designed together in Pedini Moka, with where each finish goes and the city permits involved.

What to settle before you approve a custom media wall: real equipment sizes, where each device lives, storage, cable routes, and how you reach it all later.

A floating vanity hangs on the wall; a freestanding one stands on the floor. What each needs for wall support, plumbing, storage, and cleaning in Miami.

A wet bar has a sink and a dry bar does not. What each needs for plumbing, refrigeration, ice, and glassware, and where a home bar works in a Miami home.

How much space a kitchen island needs: aisle clearance, seating dimensions per stool, appliance doors, and storage, with an annotated Pedini kitchen plan.

What a whole-home millwork package includes, room by room, and where it stops: what Pedini draws and installs, and what the architect and contractor own.

Matte hides scratches but can polish where hands land; gloss shows every print. How lacquer, veneer, laminate, and FENIX hold up in a Miami kitchen.

A built-in media wall has to vent heat, hide a service run, and hang its weight off concrete. How the millwork solves all three before the screen goes up.

A butler's pantry stages the party; a scullery does the work. The real difference is millwork: appliance load, ventilation, door swings, and what a second sink commits you to.

Salt air reaches more than 50 miles inland. What outdoor kitchen cabinets are made of, and why 316 stainless is the grade that survives South Florida.

Fronts photograph; carcases last. Seven details that separate a well made custom closet from a closet system, and how to check each one in a showroom.

A handleless kitchen cabinet moves the grip off the door. Four systems do that, and only one changes how the cabinet is built. Here is what each does to the reveal, the carcass, and a South Florida kitchen.

Seven criteria for choosing a custom closet company, how fitted joinery differs from a modular closet system, and what shapes the investment.

A panel ready appliance is only invisible if the cabinetry around it was engineered for it. Here is what integration asks of the millwork, and why it is settled before the appliance is chosen.

Most cabinet failures in South Florida start in the carcase core and the edge band, not the door. A Miami manufacturer on what actually survives 84% humidity.

Two kitchens with the same footprint can carry very different budgets. A Miami manufacturer on the seven variables that actually drive custom kitchen cost.

A bespoke Italian kitchen takes roughly four to six months from the first design consultation to a completed installation. Design development runs two to five weeks, material specification another two, production in Italy eight to eighteen weeks, and installation follows the site's readiness. The range is wide because the work is made to order, and this article explains where each week goes. We have spent over twenty-five years building these kitchens in South Florida, and th

A Miami condo renovation typically moves along two tracks at once: condominium-association approval and municipal permitting for regulated work. Before design is finalized, obtain the building's alteration agreement, confirm the permitting jurisdiction, assign each professional's responsibilities, and bring cabinetry into the conversation alongside walls, utilities, lighting, and appliances. Requirements vary by municipality, building, and project scope — but the sequence rar

For nearly seven decades, Pedini has shaped the way the world understands Italian craftsmanship, treating cabinetry not merely as storage, but as an architectural element of the home. In South Florida, Pedini by Daruso has carried that legacy forward, bringing precision, intention, and a deeply considered design philosophy to residential projects across the region. Now, we are proud to announce the official opening of our newest showroom in the Miami Design District, located

When an interior designer builds her own home, the standards for materials, vendors, and execution are entirely different. Having spent her career specifying luxury kitchens and custom millwork for clients across Miami, Daphne Martino of Interiors by Daphne knows the industry inside out. She knows the vendors, the lead times, and the promises that often fall short. So when it came time to design the kitchen for her own residence in Pinecrest, Florida, she interviewed ten diff