Coconut Grove Condominium
Overview
Full renovation of a Coconut Grove condominium — new kitchen, primary suite with custom bathroom and sauna, powder room, walk-in closet, flooring throughout, and a complete materials overhaul from travertine to white oak.
Focus
Replace a dated mid-2000s interior with a home that reflects how the owner actually lives — a serious kitchen anchored by custom millwork, a living room built around a personal library, and a primary suite with a bathroom that goes further than most.
Result
A confident, deeply personal interior — dark cabinetry and marble against warm oak floors, a walnut built-in that fills one wall of the living room, and a primary bathroom with a cedar sauna, zellige tile shower, and fluted custom vanity that commits completely to its own idea.
Before the Renovation
The unit had good proportions, a private garden terrace, and the quiet, green setting that makes Coconut Grove worth living in. But the interior was stuck — travertine tile throughout, black granite countertops, dated cabinetry with frosted glass uppers, and vessel sinks that had aged out of every context they were ever in. The bones were sound. The finishes needed to start over.
Living Areas
The kitchen was completely rebuilt — matte black flat-panel lower cabinetry, grey upper cabinets, and a full marble backsplash running floor to ceiling, lit by oak floating shelves above and a dedicated bar shelf on the right. A long marble waterfall island with integrated wine fridge and seating for four anchors the space. Matte black sink and faucets, Bosch oven, and induction cooktop. New wide-plank white oak floors run from the kitchen through dining and living, replacing the travertine throughout. The living room is anchored by a full-wall walnut built-in — open shelving flanking a navy accent wall with large flat screen — designed around the owners' book and record collection.
Primary Suite|Secondary Spaces
The primary bedroom was given a clear identity — charcoal embossed wallcovering on the headboard wall and wide-plank white oak floors complement the owner's mid-century walnut platform bed flanked by two alabaster pyramid lamps. In the bathroom, removing the underused built-in tub allowed for a walk-in shower with limestone walls, pebble stone floor, linear drain, rain head, and a deep blue-green zellige tile feature wall, alongside a Finnleo cedar sauna installed directly in the bathroom. The powder room rounds out the design with floor-to-ceiling embossed grey wallpaper, a floating walnut vanity, integrated black stone sink, matte black faucet, a brass-framed rounded mirror, and two exposed-bulb sconces.
