Whole-Home · Orlando & Central Florida
WHOLE-HOME REMODELING COMPANY ORLANDO, FL
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4.8★ Google · 63 Reviews · Orlando — 250+ Projects Over Two Decades · FL License CGC 1529022
Whole-Home Remodeling in Orlando — the design-build studio that renovates the entire house as one connected project.
Kitchens, baths, living spaces, and the walls between them — designed together, built together, by one team on one contract. This page walks you through one real house to show you why that matters.
The house this page walks through, room to room — Whole-Home Remodeling in Celebration
The Premise
Most people call us about one room.
The best homes come from seeing all of them. Open the kitchen to the living room and the light changes in three other spaces. Move a wall and the primary suite gains a real bath. A whole-home remodel — a full-home renovation planned as one project — isn't a bigger invoice; it's a different way of thinking about the same house.
One decision cascades through the floor plan. That's why we'd rather design the whole house once than remodel it twice. And if your real question is even bigger — whether an older house is worth remodeling at all — start with our field note: Renovate or Rebuild? Deciding for an Older Central Florida Home.
A whole house remodel isn't about doing more rooms. It's about the connections between them — sightlines, light, and flow you can't get one room at a time.
Room to Room — One Real House
A Winter Park whole-home renovation, walked in order
Every photo below is the same Winter Park house, photographed at completion. Watch how each room hands off to the next — that handoff is what you're actually buying.
The kitchen sets the house's material language: white oak, warm brass, quiet stone. But look at the edges of the frame — the room refuses to end at its own walls.
One frame, three rooms. Dining, living, and kitchen share light, floor, and ceiling because the plan treated them as one space with three jobs — the whole-home argument in a single photograph.
From the sofa, the island is still in view. The fireplace wall and lit built-ins were designed against the kitchen elevation behind them — two rooms, one composition.
Down the hall, the primary bath speaks the same language — the white oak and warm metals from the kitchen, translated into stone and water. That continuity is a whole-home decision; it can't be retrofitted one contractor at a time.
The payoff of a connected plan is a house that feels finished everywhere you look — down to the last niche. Want the rest of this house? Walk the full Winter Park whole-home transformation.
The Wall Between The Rooms
Bring us your load-bearing wall.
Open-concept plans usually run through a wall that's holding the house up. That's not a reason to abandon the plan — it's a reason to hire a design-build firm with structural work in its everyday scope. Engineered beams, properly sized posts, rerouted plumbing and electrical: the unglamorous work that makes the connected floor plan possible, permitted, and inspected.
It's the lane an interior-only studio can't drive in. Our designers and builders plan the opening together — see how a KBF project runs, phase by phase.
Structural changes are always confirmed by field verification and, where required, a licensed structural engineer's design — we tell you what the wall needs before demolition, not after. What actually lives inside one of these walls — and what replacing it takes — is its own field note: What's Actually Behind a Load-Bearing Wall (and What Removing It Takes).
Living In Your Home While We Remodel It
Occupied-home honesty
Most of our whole-home clients live in the house through construction. So the plan is built for it: work zoned in phases, dust containment at the zone boundaries, a functioning temporary kitchen when yours is down, and a weekly communication rhythm so you always know what's happening next week.
You'll also have eyes on the project between site visits — schedule, selections, and progress tracked in one place through our client portal, with your project manager a message away. The full six-phase structure is on the process page. And because open walls always know more than drawings do, we plan for what they'll reveal — the field note While the Walls Are Open: Planning for Scope You Can’t See Yet is that checklist in print.
One Team, One Contract
The design studio that can also move the wall
The common alternative is a designer plus a general contractor plus a cabinet shop — three contracts, three schedules, and you as the general manager between them. KBF's model is design-build: the designer who draws your whole-home plan and the team that builds it work under one roof, with selections made in person at our Maitland showroom.
Interior design isn't an add-on here — it's the front half of the same engagement. Our interior-design studio carries finishes, fixtures, and furnishings through the same plan, so the finished house reads as one hand's work.
The Record
Numbers that hold up in records
KBF was founded in 2003. The company's project records now hold more than 1,000 completed projects across Central Florida — a derived count from 22 years of files — including 250+ Orlando projects over two decades — 88 of them verified in our records. Every project ships under the 5-year craftsmanship warranty.
FL License CGC 1529022 · Maitland, FL
A Family & Their Whole Home
“You helped me envision our dream and elevated it beyond what I could have imagined… It is airy, bright, minimal and provides a place we love coming home to. It is peaceful and calm… Our realtor told us that it's a one of a kind.”
Their actual home — photographed on completion. Notice the kitchen visible from both rooms: the connected plan is the project. More verified pairs live on the reviews page.
Whole-Home Across Central Florida
From our Maitland showroom, out the Orlando ring
Whole-home and full-house renovation work runs from Winter Park and Maitland out through Windermere, Longwood, Oviedo, Winter Springs, Apopka, and Celebration — permitted and inspected under Orange and Seminole County jurisdictions (and their neighbors), built from 1295 South Orlando Avenue, Maitland.
Inside Orlando itself the work clusters in the neighborhoods you'd guess — Baldwin Park, Dr. Phillips, College Park — each part of the 1,000+ projects across Central Florida.
Planning a single room instead? Start at custom kitchens, custom bathrooms, or home additions — and if the plan grows, we'll already know the house.
Questions, Answered Honestly
Whole-Home Remodeling — FAQ
What's the difference between a whole-home remodel and remodeling one room at a time?
Sequencing and design intent. Room-by-room remodeling repeats mobilization, permits, and decisions — and the rooms never quite talk to each other. A whole-home remodel designs the entire house once, phases construction deliberately, and delivers connected spaces with one material language throughout.
Can we live in our house during a whole-home renovation?
Usually, yes. We phase the work into zones, contain dust at the boundaries, and set up a temporary kitchen when yours is offline. Some clients choose to relocate for the most intensive phase; we plan either way with you up front.
Do you handle structural work like removing a load-bearing wall?
Yes — it's everyday scope for us. Openings are planned with proper engineered beams and posts, confirmed by field verification and a licensed structural engineer's design where required, and built under permit and inspection.
How long does a whole-home remodel in Orlando take?
It depends on scope: a connected main-living renovation runs on a different clock than a full-house transformation with structural changes. After the design phase fixes the scope, we commit to a construction schedule in writing — and our weekly communication rhythm keeps you current throughout.
What does "design-build" mean, and why does it matter for a full-home renovation?
One firm designs the project and builds it — one contract, one accountable team. For whole-home work it matters most at the seams: structural openings, phasing, and selections all coordinate inside one plan instead of across three vendors.
Do you provide the interior design and finish selections, or only the construction?
Both. Our interior-design studio leads selections — cabinetry, stone, tile, fixtures, lighting — in person at the Maitland showroom, as the front half of the same engagement that builds the house.
Which Central Florida areas do you serve for whole-home remodeling?
The Orlando ring: Winter Park, Maitland, Windermere, Longwood, Oviedo, Winter Springs, Apopka, Lake Mary, Winter Garden, Celebration, and the surrounding communities on our service-areas page.
Do you pull the permits, and how do Orange / Seminole County inspections work?
We pull the permits and schedule the inspections — building, and the trade permits under it — in whichever jurisdiction your home sits, most often Orange or Seminole County. Inspections are sequenced into the construction schedule so they gate the work, not surprise it.
What does your 5-year craftsmanship warranty cover?
Defects in how the work was built, assembled, or installed — cabinetry setting, tile and stone work, trim, drywall finish, and installation workmanship — for five years on every project. The warranty page carries the plain-English clause ledger.
How do we get started — what happens at the first consultation?
A conversation, at your home or our Maitland showroom: what the house does today, what you want it to do, and whether the answer is one room or the whole plan. From there we scope the design phase — no pressure, and no obligation to know the answer before we talk.
Let’s Talk
Bring us the whole house — or the one room that started the conversation. We'll help you see the rest.
Contact Us Call 407-830-7703Start Your Design Consultation
Family-owned design-to-build remodeling, backed by our Five-Year Craftsmanship Warranty. Visit our Maitland showroom: 1295 S Orlando Ave, Maitland, FL 32751 — Mon–Fri 8:30–5, Sat 10–3.
Prefer to talk? Call us at 407-830-7703.