Bathroom and Kitchen Remodeling in Lakeland, FL

A second office at 2829 Badger Rd puts a dedicated crew inside Lakeland instead of stretching a Plant City team across the county. Founder and CEO Issac Turpin built the company around self-performing crews rather than a patchwork of subcontractors, and that shows up in the day to day experience for local clients.

Our team is published by name, with the role each person plays on a job. The project manager who walks your Lakeland house on day one is the same person answering the phone in week six.

Kitchen remodeling is one of the most requested projects in Lakeland, from Dixieland-area bungalows near downtown to newer builds off County Line Road. Bathroom remodeling follows a similar pattern, especially in homes around Lakeland Highlands and Kathleen where the primary bathroom has not been touched since the house was built.

Growing families in Mulberry and Gibsonia often reach a point where the existing floor plan cannot keep up. Having structural, electrical, and plumbing trades in-house keeps an addition tied into the existing home, and it keeps a whole-home renovation moving on one coordinated schedule instead of room by room over separate years.

Lakeland has a genuine mix of housing stock. Near the downtown lakes and in older sections of the city, homes carry character details that need a careful hand, while farther out toward Highland City and Gibsonia, newer subdivisions bring builder-grade finishes that homeowners want to upgrade.

True Builders does the full rebuild after a fire or a storm, not just the cleanup. That is the difference between us and a mitigation-only company. Once the affected areas are cleared, our own crews frame, rewire, replumb, hang and finish drywall, set cabinets and counters, tile, and paint until the house is livable again.

A Lakeland fire damage job usually runs the same way: assess the structure, rebuild what burned, then handle the smoke damage that spread past the room where the fire started. Storm damage follows the same path, from structural repair through finish work.

A kitchen fire is the version we see most, and it rarely stays in the kitchen. At the other end of the scale, a complete loss means the house comes down to the slab and goes back up, which is disaster restoration work rather than remodeling. Lakeland storm calls skew toward wind, usually a fallen tree through a roofline after a summer squall line moves through Polk County.

One exception. Water mitigation is not a True Builders service. It belongs to our sister brand, True Plumbers. If you have standing water or an active leak, start there at trueplumbers.com, then bring us in for the reconstruction.

Permitting for a Lakeland remodel runs through Polk County, and homes inside the city limits are reviewed by the City of Lakeland building department. Anything structural, anything that moves plumbing or electrical, and any home addition needs a permit and an inspection.

We pull the permit and schedule the inspections ourselves. Review times move with the workload at the department and the size of the job, so we confirm the current turnaround when we submit rather than promise a number up front.

True Builders holds Florida general contractor license CBC1258346. The number is public and you can verify it in the Florida DBPR license database before you sign anything.

The Badger Rd office covers Lakeland first, then the towns on either side of it. Plant City sits to the west and holds our headquarters and the largest concentration of crews. Winter Haven sits to the east across the Chain of Lakes. Auburndale sits between the two, which is why crews often run a Lakeland kitchen remodel and an Auburndale bathroom remodel in the same week.

Housing stock changes as you move across that corridor, so the approach changes with it. A Lakeland bungalow near the downtown lakes needs a different plan than a newer Winter Haven build, and both need a licensed general contractor who can pull the Polk County permit.

Cabinets and countertops set the tone for a kitchen more than almost any other choice, and they are two of the most requested upgrades among Lakeland homeowners. Because the same in-house crew handles cabinet installation, countertop templating, and countertop installation, the two pieces stay coordinated on one schedule.

The Lakeland showroom exists because photos and swatches on a screen rarely tell the whole story. A showroom consultation lets a homeowner hold a countertop sample next to a cabinet door sample under real lighting before signing off on a design.

Renovation design happens in the same room. The designer who draws your layout is the one who hands it to the crew, so nothing gets lost between the drawing and the jobsite.

A few questions come up in almost every consultation, whether the project is a small update or a full renovation. Our recent projects answer several of them before you pick up the phone, and the video library has full jobsite walkthroughs if you would rather watch than read.

Published cost guides put a Lakeland bathroom remodel at an average of roughly $7,484 to $10,335, with the full local range running from about $3,204 for a cosmetic update to about $15,590 for a larger job. Across the wider Tampa market, a standard full bathroom remodel generally lands between $15,000 and $28,000, and mid-range projects between $15,000 and $30,000.

Plumbing is the biggest single swing. Leave the toilet, shower, and vanity where they are and the number stays low. Move any of those drains and expect another $2,000 to $5,000, because the slab has to be opened and the line rerouted.

Kitchens work the same way. A cosmetic refresh that keeps the existing layout runs about $8,000 to $18,000. A mid-range kitchen remodel with new cabinets, countertops, and appliances runs about $30,000 to $60,000. A full gut that moves walls and relocates plumbing runs $60,000 to $120,000 and up.

Read those numbers as market context, not as a price from us. They are general ranges compiled from published industry cost guides for the Lakeland and Tampa area, and they are not a True Builders quote. What your project actually costs comes down to scope, the materials you pick, and what the crew finds once the walls are open. Call (863) 647-1800 or use Get a Quote and we will price your specific job.

Financing runs through our third-party lending partner. Prequalifying is a soft credit check and does not affect a credit score, which lets a homeowner see a monthly number before committing to a scope.

Once the remodel is done, the True Home Membership covers the upkeep side across the True family of brands, so a Lakeland homeowner is not hunting for a different company every time something needs attention.