Kitchen Remodeling • St. Johns, FL
St. Johns is the fast-growing northwest corner of St. Johns County, and almost every kitchen here was drawn on a production builder's plan: Julington Creek Plantation and the neighborhoods along Race Track Road from the 1990s and 2000s, Durbin Crossing off County Road 210, and the newer streets of RiverTown, Shearwater, Beachwalk and Aberdeen. These are family kitchens in family houses — open to the great room, worked hard at breakfast and homework hours, and finished at build time with base-level sheet vinyl, laminate or tile, a four-inch backsplash strip, and little else. Braga Remodeling remodels St. Johns kitchens around the surfaces we install best — LVP and tile flooring, tile backsplashes, the removal and preparation underneath them, and the finish details that tie the room together — with the exact scope written down before work begins.
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5.0 · 36 Google reviewsWe measure the kitchen in person, check the floor that is there now and the wall behind the range, and give you a written scope that says exactly what Braga is handling — so the update matches how your family actually uses the room.
Overview
Start with the older half of the area. Julington Creek Plantation and the neighborhoods that grew up around it are now twenty to thirty years old, and their original kitchen floors show it: sheet vinyl yellowed and lifting at the seams, laminate swollen along the sink and dishwasher lines, and ceramic tile with grout that no longer cleans up. A kitchen remodel in these homes is usually a surface reset — the worn floor comes out, the slab is checked and corrected, and a modern waterproof floor goes down in its place, with a real tile backsplash where the builder left a short strip or painted drywall.
The newer communities ask the opposite question. In Durbin Crossing, RiverTown, Shearwater, Beachwalk and Aberdeen, many kitchens are only a few years old and nothing is failing — owners simply want the finish level the model home showed and the base package did not include: one continuous LVP floor running from the kitchen through the great room instead of a change of material at an invisible line, large-format porcelain where tile already runs in the entry, and a full-height backsplash behind the range. Our flooring removal takes the old surface out, the substrate is checked and corrected under floor preparation, and the new LVP floor or porcelain tile is planned at a height that still clears the dishwasher, the range and the doors.
Many St. Johns owners pair the kitchen with the bathrooms in the same visit, and each room gets its own measurement and price in writing first. The bathroom equivalent of this page is bathroom remodeling in St. Johns, and the general remodeling page for the area is remodeling in St. Johns.
Kitchen flooring
Waterproof LVP and porcelain tile
Tile backsplashes
Layout planned before the first tile
Open-plan runs
One floor through kitchen and great room
Written scope first
Exact work defined before start
| What changes the price | How it is priced |
|---|---|
| LVP flooring | LVP flooring installation is from $3.99/sq ft installed (material + installation, for 1,000 sq ft and up). Removal, leveling and new baseboards are quoted separately. See the LVP flooring cost page. |
| Tile flooring | Priced from the measured area, the tile size and pattern, and the preparation the slab needs. Most St. Johns homes sit on a concrete slab, which is checked for flatness and cracks at the measurement. See the tile installation cost guide. |
| How far the floor runs | A kitchen-only floor is one price; continuing the same floor through the great room, hall and pantry — the most common St. Johns ask — is measured as one run so transitions and door clearances are planned together. |
| Backsplash size and tile | Linear feet of wall, height to the cabinets or to the ceiling at the range, tile type and pattern, and the cuts around outlets and window returns. |
| Removal of the old floor | Ceramic tile and its thinset take more time and disposal than sheet vinyl or laminate, and moisture-swollen material has to come out fully before the slab can be corrected. Removal is listed separately in the estimate. |
| Finish work | Baseboards, shoe molding, transitions to adjoining rooms and the lanai door, caulk lines, and any included painting or drywall repair. |
The in-home estimate is free and the price is fixed in writing before work starts. See all published starting prices on the pricing page.
What We Do
Braga Remodeling's kitchen work is built around the surfaces we install every day: LVP and tile flooring, tile backsplashes, the preparation underneath them and the finish details around them. In a St. Johns home, that combination is usually the whole visible update: the builder-grade floor comes out, a chosen waterproof plank or porcelain floor goes in — often continuing straight into the great room — and the wall behind the range becomes a finished backsplash, while the cabinets and countertops that are still sound stay exactly where they are.
If your plans also include new cabinets, countertops, moving plumbing or electrical, or opening a wall, we tell you at the measurement which parts Braga handles and which need a separate licensed trade (Braga does not do plumbing, electrical or structural work). Nothing outside our scope is assumed: the written estimate lists exactly what Braga is responsible for. Related finish work like interior painting and drywall repair can be added to the same scope so the kitchen is finished as one room.
Kitchen Flooring
Both work well here; the right choice usually follows the floor plan. Most St. Johns kitchens are open to the great room, so the floor decision is really a two-room decision: waterproof LVP gives one warm, quiet surface under both rooms and tolerates the tracked-in water, pet traffic and chair movement of a family house; porcelain tile is the hardest surface and suits homes where tile already runs through the entry and baths. In the older Julington Creek homes, either replaces a floor that has simply reached the end of its life — what matters most there is the slab check underneath, because decades of patch jobs and settled spots telegraph through a new floor that skips preparation.
Finished heights at the dishwasher and range, expansion gaps, and trim around fixed islands are measured before you buy. The details are on vinyl flooring, waterproof flooring and tile installation.
Backsplash
The standard St. Johns builder package stops the backsplash at a four-inch strip of countertop material — or skips it for painted drywall. A full tile backsplash is the highest-impact wall change in the room, and because the area is small, layout is everything: where the pattern starts so the end cuts balance, how the tile meets the underside of the upper cabinets and the range hood, where outlets land in the pattern, and how the exposed edge at the end of the counter is finished. Subway and stacked large-format patterns are the common asks in the newer communities; in Julington Creek's older kitchens the tile usually just needs to sit comfortably next to traditional cabinetry.
More ideas are on kitchen backsplash tile and backsplash installation.
Preparation
Most of the quality of the new floor is decided before it is installed. Old tile is broken out and the thinset ground back; sheet vinyl, laminate and old adhesive are removed fully, because new flooring over loose or moisture-damaged material telegraphs every defect. The slab is checked with a straightedge and corrected where it is out of flat — see floor preparation and flooring removal. On slab homes the common findings are low spots along the original tile lines, hairline cracks that need to be noted before tile is chosen, and moisture-swollen laminate at the sink run.
Cabinets and countertops are protected and the kitchen is left clean at the end of each working day. Most St. Johns communities have their own architectural review or access rules for contractor work; we confirm them with you before the first day rather than assuming, and each community's own rules govern.
Straight answers
Braga Remodeling is a Jacksonville remodeling company at 4305 Napoli Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, phone (904) 520-1994, serving St. Johns as part of its regular St. Johns County service area. In St. Johns the crew replaces builder-grade kitchen floors with LVP or porcelain tile, installs tile backsplashes, and handles the removal, preparation and finish work around them — starting with a free in-home measurement and a written scope.
The floor and the wall behind the range. In the older Julington Creek homes it is worn sheet vinyl, swollen laminate and tired grout; in the newer communities in Durbin Crossing, RiverTown and Shearwater it is the base-level builder finish — a floor that changes material at the great room and a four-inch backsplash strip. Replacing those two surfaces, while keeping cabinets and countertops that are still sound, is the update most St. Johns owners choose.
Our Process
We measure the kitchen, check the existing floor and the wall behind the range, and talk through what you want changed and what stays.
Flooring, tile, layout and finish details are confirmed and the price is fixed in writing — exactly what Braga handles, before work begins.
The old floor comes out, the slab and walls are prepared, and anything found underneath is photographed and agreed with you before installation.
Flooring, backsplash and included finish work go in, the kitchen is cleaned, and we walk the finished room with you.
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“I had a great experience with this construction company. They were honest, reliable, and did exactly what they promised. The team was professional, hardworking, and paid attention to every detail.”
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Tell us about the kitchen — the floor that is there now, whether you want a backsplash, how far you want the new floor to run — and we'll measure in person and put the scope in writing, at no cost. Prefer to talk? Call (904) 520-1994 or email braga@bragaremodeling.com.
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