Your Bonita Springs Backyard Deserves to be Finished
Bonita Springs Outdoor Kitchens · Pergolas · Covered Patios · Shade Structures · Pavilions · Summer Kitchens
Custom outdoor kitchens, pergolas, pavilions, and covered living spaces — built for the way Bonita Springs homeowners actually live, outside, year-round.
Florida-Certified Building Contractor · Serving Bonita Springs Since 2007
THE SITUATION
You Live in One of Florida's Best Climates.
Use It.
Bonita Springs sits in a pocket of Southwest Florida where the weather, the landscaping, and the pace of life all point to one thing: outside. The backyard here isn't seasonal. It's where you have your coffee, where you cook, where the people you care about end up after dinner. It just needs the outdoor kitchen, the pergola, the covered patio — the backyard hangout area that makes it all work.
The challenge isn't the vision. You already have that. The challenge is finding a licensed contractor who knows the rules on your specific side of the county line, who can navigate your HOA's architectural review without losing your entire fall to paperwork, and who builds an outdoor living space that holds up to everything Southwest Florida's climate throws at it.
That's where we come in.
before you hire anyone
Bonita Springs Crosses Two County Lines
Bonita Springs sits across the Lee–Collier county line. If you are building something structural, your permit goes through Lee County or Collier County, depending on exactly where your property sits — not which zip code you think you're in.
Most contractors are set up for one county or the other. We're licensed in both. We confirm your jurisdiction before anything is submitted and file to the right county building department on day one — saving you the weeks that get lost when a contractor guesses wrong.
HL Posey Builders is a Florida-certified building contractor licensed to work in both Lee and Collier counties. One contractor. The whole city.
WHAT WE BUILD
Outdoor Kitchens, Pergolas, Pavilions &
Everything Else That Belongs in the Backyard
Every project is designed around your specific lot, your HOA standards, and the way you intend to use the space. We build the full range of outdoor living and outdoor cooking environments — from a focused summer kitchen to a complete backyard transformation.
Custom Outdoor Kitchens &
Summer Kitchens
Built-in grills, smokers, pizza ovens, side burners, outdoor refrigerators, ice makers, sinks, wine coolers, and stone or porcelain countertops — designed around your cooking style and specified for Florida's UV exposure, heat, and humidity. This is a fully functional outdoor cooking space, not a grill with a countertop bolted on.
Built-in grills · Pizza ovens · Outdoor refrigeration · Stone countertops
Pergolas, Pavilions & Covered
Patios
Aluminum, timber-look, and hybrid pergola systems — including motorized louvered roof pergolas that let you control sun and rain in real time. Solid-roof pavilions for full coverage. Covered patio structures attached to your home or freestanding. Every roofed shade structure is engineered to Florida Building Code wind-load requirements and finished to your HOA's approval standards.
Louvered pergolas · Pavilions · Shade structures · Covered patios · Attached pergolas
Complete Outdoor Living Spaces.
Dining areas, lounge zones, outdoor bars, fire pits, fire tables, linear fireplaces, entertainment walls, and landscape lighting — integrated into one cohesive outdoor room that extends your home's living space outward. The kind of backyard that makes January in Bonita Springs feel like exactly the life you planned for.
Outdoor dining · Fire pits · Fire tables · Outdoor bars · OUTDOOR lighting
HOW IT WORKS
A Simple Path to Becoming a Backyard
Hangout Hero
Step 1
Consultation · Commitment ·
Site Visit
Starting with an in-depth conversation about your space and ideas, we give you a budget range. You make an in-person or virtual visit to our showroom to see all the stuff that fills your vision. Then we come out to your house and make it all work.
Step 2
Final Selections and Order Materials
We guide you through the final selection of cabinet colors, countertops and backsplashes. Write it all up to determine the final scope of work so everyone is on the same page, including our licensed plumber and electrician.
Step 3
We Build. You Enjoy.
Construction begins on your scheduled date. The construction period generally takes around three weeks for an outdoor kitchen. The last day we install all the appliances and clean up all the dust. Always shooting to deliver a 5-star performance.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
This Is What You
Actually Came Here For
A finished outdoor kitchen and covered living space in Bonita Springs isn't a home improvement project. It's the version of your life that you pictured when you bought the house.
A chilly day in Bonita Springs in January?
In your shorts, flip-flops, and a sweater, doing your Hangout Hero thing, grilling up dinner for some friends. Not a single thought about what your family is dealing with up north. You're only thinking, "how amazing is this". This is just any given day now.
The neighbors ask who built it?
Word travels fast in Bonita Springs neighborhoods. A finished outdoor kitchen — one that's clearly built right, and clearly amazing by all standards — is the kind of thing that gets noticed. We've built entire neighborhoods one backyard at a time.
You sell the house on your terms.
The outdoor kitchen is in the listing photos. The structure you built years ago is a documented, transferable asset. You choosing to use a Florida Certified Building Contractor pays off and not a question mark that stalls the sell.
WHAT WE HELP YOU AVOID
The Shortcuts that You Don't Know About
Will Cost You Later
Bonita Springs is a strong market, and strong markets attract companies that take shortcuts. The definition of a certified licensed contractor is: a construction company that can hire and assemble all the trades necessary to complete your project, and be solely responsible for everything. A company that hires someone to do electrical, plumbing, or gas work, or does it themselves without a contractor's license, is illegally contracting or doing unlicensed work.
These illegal companies put you at risk, and you only find out if something goes wrong. Our general liability insurance costs 20 to 30 times more to ensure you are protected for what we do. Their liability insurance is worthless, and your homeowners insurance may be too, if something goes wrong. Leaving you solely responsible.
We've heard from Bonita Springs homeowners who inherited someone else's problem outdoor kitchens and are now on the hook to fix it.
We'd rather you call us first.
List of Services
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Materials that fail in Florida's outdoor conditionsList Item 1
The wrong countertop stains. The wrong stainless corrodes. A pergola roof not rated for Florida's wind loads doesn't survive its first named storm. We specify for this climate — not for a showroom.
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An unpermitted pergola or structureList Item 2
Unpermitted structures surface in buyer inspections and title searches. They can require full removal, significant fines, or forced price reductions.
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An HOA violation after the build is doneList Item 4
BBuilding a roofed shade structure or outdoor kitchen without architectural review approval is a violation regardless of how good it looks. We submit before we build. Every time.
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A project that outlasts your patience
A poorly designed and managed outdoor kitchen build can drag on for months with no clear timeline and no accountability. Once we have all your material, we put you on the schedule and communicate all the way to the end.
Check out the legitimacy of anyone you hire to do anything at your house.
Check if they are a legitimate business and who owns it:
https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ByName
Check if they have a Florida Contractors License:
https://www.myfloridalicense.com/wl11.asp?SID&mode=0
WHY HL POSEY
One Licensed Contractor for all of Bonita Springs
HL Posey Builders is a Florida-certified building contractor with experience throughout Bonita Springs — on both sides of the county line. We've built outdoor kitchens, pergolas, pavilions, covered patios, and complete outdoor living spaces across Bonita's neighborhoods, in its HOA-governed developments, and on its Gulf-adjacent and lots.
We bring one thing that most outdoor kitchen companies in this market can't: a certified contractor's license that works in both Lee and Collier counties and the process knowledge to handle your project from first design conversation to final inspection without asking you to figure out which county you're standing in.
FLORIDA CONTRACTOR LICENSE
CBC 1253975
Verifiable at MyFloridaLicense.com.
We display this on every proposal, every permit application, and every project sign — because it matters and is required by Florida State law.
List of Services
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HOA submissions prepared for your neighborhoodList Item 1
We help you prepare a submission tailored to your HOA's specific requirements — materials, drawings, color documentation — organized the way they want to receive it.
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Materials specified for Southwest Florida's outdoor conditionsList Item 3
UV-stable countertops. Correct-grade stainless. Wind-load rated pergola and pavilion systems. We spec for where you live — not for where the catalog was written.
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One contractor, start to finishList Item 4
Design, permitting, construction, and inspection all run through HL Posey. No subcontractor handoffs, no accountability gaps, no "that's not our department."
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A fixed price in writing before we start
Not a range. Not an estimate. A real number that covers the full scope — including allowances for unknowns and unseens — before you sign anything.
Common questions
What Bonita Springs Homeowners Ask Us First
How do I know if my Bonita Springs property is in Lee or Collier County?
The Bonita Springs city limits cross the county line, so a Bonita Springs mailing address doesn't tell you which county building department handles your permits. The dividing line runs roughly along Bonita Beach Road but the boundary isn't perfectly intuitive from a street address. The reliable way to confirm is your property appraiser record — both Lee County and Collier County have online property search tools where your parcel will show the correct jurisdiction. We confirm this at the start of every Bonita Springs project.
What's the difference between a pergola, a pavilion, and a covered patio — and which one do I need?
These terms get used interchangeably but they're meaningfully different structures. A pergola is an open or partially covered overhead structure — traditionally with open-beam rafters, though modern louvered pergola systems let you adjust the roof from open to fully closed with a motor. A pavilion is a fully roofed freestanding structure, usually with a solid or metal roof that provides complete coverage in all weather. A covered patio is typically a roofed structure attached directly to your home — sometimes called an attached pergola, patio cover, or lanai extension. Which is right for you depends on how much weather protection you want, whether you want adjustability, HOA approval standards for your neighborhood, and the structural relationship to your home. We walk through all of this with you and help you land on the right structure for the way you intend to use it.
What does an outdoor kitchen or covered outdoor living space cost in Bonita Springs?
A perfectly built outdoor kitchen in Bonita Springs runs from about $18,000 for a clean summer kitchen setup to $115,000 or more for a full outdoor living space with a pergola or pavilion, fire feature, premium appliances, and high-end stonework. Add a motorized louvered pergola roof and the range adjusts accordingly. The investment reflects the scope, the material quality, and the structural complexity of the build. We provide a fixed-price proposal — a specific number that covers everything, including HOA submission. Not a range. Not a starting point. A real number you can make a decision from.
How long from our first conversation to a finished outdoor kitchen?
A typical outdoor kitchen from the time the contract is signed, runs 10 to 14 weeks in Bonita Springs. It takes 2 to 8 weeks to get all of your material to our warehouse, a week or two to get you on the schedule and, 2 to 4 weeks to complete construction. If we need HOA approval or if the project requires a permit, the timeline becomes out of our control and could add 4 to 12 weeks to the process. Season affects scheduling — we book projects well in advance during peak season, typically October through March. We encourage homeowners planning for season to begin conversations in mid summer.,
