Orlando is several housing markets in one city
Inside the city limits, Orlando ranges from century-old streets to subdivisions finished in the last few years, and the age of the house changes almost every decision on a wall project.
Around the lake downtown, Lake Eola Heights was platted in the early 1920s and is a historic district known for Craftsman bungalows and Mediterranean Revival houses on brick-paved streets. Thornton Park, just south and east of it, holds some of the city’s oldest bungalows. College Park, northwest of downtown, also dates to the 1920s; its streets carry college names like Yale, Harvard and Vassar. Baldwin Park is the opposite story: it was built on the site of the former Naval Training Center, and the first residents moved in during the early 2000s. Lake Nona, in the southeast, is inside city limits too, and it has its own page here.
Working on a 1920s Orlando house
In an older home we treat the wall as an unknown until we’ve checked it. Original plaster, later drywall patches, walls that lean a little and wiring added over several decades are all common in houses of that age. Before we price a media wall in a bungalow, we want to know where the studs actually are, what sits behind the plaster and where a new outlet can be fed from.
Scale matters as much as structure. A living room designed long before flat screens can be swallowed by a deep built-in cabinet run. In those rooms we tend to suggest a slimmer TV surround, painted paneling or open shelves that keep the original window and door trim in view, rather than a floor-to-ceiling block of cabinetry.
Newer neighborhoods inside the city
Baldwin Park, MetroWest and the newer parts of the city are simpler behind the drywall. Studs are regular, outlets can be relocated with less patching, and recessed niches for a linear electric fireplace are easier to frame. Here the questions are mostly about HOA rules for contractor hours and where our trucks can park.
What we have built in Orlando
Most of our Orlando work so far has been TV walls. In 2026 we completed two media walls with electric fireplaces, one in May at about $13,000 and one in July at about $8,000, and in January a media wall with stone-look niches and built-ins at about $9,500. Media and fireplace walls in our price list run $4,500–16,000, depending on size, materials and cabinetry.
Because the company is based in Orlando, measurements in the city are easy to fit in, and the electrical part of any TV wall, from outlets to a hardwired fireplace, is done by a licensed Florida electrician.
