Sarasota · Siesta Key · Longboat Key · Bradenton · the Gulf Coast
Your home. Your business. One accountable remodeler.
Gulf & Key Remodel is the renovation studio of a construction family. We remodel kitchens, bathrooms, historic houses, condominiums, and professional interiors — then we remain responsible for the building.
- Experience
- 25+ years
- Principal
- Ben Dumitrascuta
- Design
- Roxana
- Based
- Sarasota
Why this company
Most remodelers sell the finished room. We sell the months in between.
The fears are not mysterious. The contractor disappears. The number was never a scope. The project manager changes. The house is occupied and the jobsite is a mess. The commercial space misses its opening date.
We write the scope, the allowances, and the change protocol before demolition. You get a weekly written update covering progress, decisions, budget movement, and anything that needs you. Ben stays accountable as principal.
Homeowners
Kitchens, baths, whole-home, historic, waterfront, condominiums.
Business owners
Offices, practices, studios, tenant improvements — planned around downtime.
Coastal properties
Salt, wind, humidity, and HOA buildings are constraints we name early.
After the punch list
Gulf & Key Estate Management can steward the finished house.
Selected work
Projects as stories, not a grid of pretty rooms.
What we remodel
Residential craft. Commercial continuity. Same standard.
Kitchen remodeling
Layout, millwork, stone, lighting, and the openings that make the room belong to the house — not a cabinet drop-off with a pretty backsplash.
Bathroom remodeling
Primary suites, guest baths, and powder rooms built as rooms — waterproofing, ventilation, millwork, and light — not a fixture swap.
Whole-home renovations
Whole-home work is not a stack of room estimates. It is a single language of finishes, a sequence the household can survive, and a principal who stays.
Waterfront & coastal
Salt, wind, humidity, glare, and openings that have to work. Waterfront remodeling is a climate problem as much as a design problem.
Historic restoration
Spanish Mediterranean, mid-century, and older Gulf Coast houses deserve a remodeler who can tell original fabric from a problem. We have the photographs to prove we know the difference.
Condominiums
HOA packages, freight elevators, quiet hours, neighbors, and systems you do not own. Florida condominium work commonly requires a Certified General Contractor.
Custom homes
Ground-up custom homes sit with Gulf & Key Construction, the sister company. Remodel still takes the first conversation if you are unsure remodel versus rebuild.
Light commercial
Offices, practices, studios, and professional interiors planned around downtime and an opening date — not around our convenience.
The Gulf & Key Method
We sell the confidence of getting there.
01
Discover
We walk the property, hear what you actually want, and name the constraints — HOA, flood, occupancy, opening date — before anyone talks about tile.
02
Define
A written scope. What is in, what is out, what cannot be known until walls open. This is the document we will argue with later, not a memory of a meeting.
03
Design
Layout, millwork, finishes, and lighting as one language. Roxana directs interiors and materials so the rooms belong to the house, not to a showroom.
04
Price
Numbers attached to the scope, with allowances you can read. Changes described, priced, and approved in writing before the work moves.
05
Build
A protected jobsite, sequenced trades, and a named person running the day. You get a weekly written update covering progress, decisions, and budget movement.
06
Steward
Closeout, walkthrough, documentation. If the house needs a keeper after we leave, Gulf & Key Estate Management is the sister company built for that.
Proof, not adjectives
The license is public. The work is photographed. References are given in a Review.
We do not write testimonials. If you want to speak with a client, that happens during a Project Review — after we know the property is a fit.
Historic restoration · Sarasota
Spanish Mediterranean restoration
Whole-home remodeling · Tremont Lane, St. Armands
St. Armands waterfront residence
Condo remodeling · Longboat Key
Water Club condominium
Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1531404. Verify it. Do not take a website as evidence.
One construction family
Remodel the house. Build the next one. Steward the estate.
This studio
Gulf & Key Remodel
Renovations, historic work, condominiums, and light commercial interiors
Sister company
Gulf & Key Construction
Ground-up custom homes and light commercial construction
Sister company
Gulf & Key Estate Management
Private estate managers, luxury home watch, and technical property care
Next step
Request a private Project Review.
Tell us about the property and the work. We will tell you whether we are the right contractor — and what the first honest next step is.