From my observation and many years in FL, I believe that's just the style. As far as sills go, all our homes have had the standard cheap marble. For our new home, we will have travertine.

Because the majority of homes here were built as spec or tract homes by developers, and it's cheaper.

travertine... that sounds so much nicer! I guess it is the style, but I sure do like the look of trim-work.

rosieo, yes cheaper I am sure... but the no frames are throughout million dollar homes I have viewed, where they do extensive crown work.. great baseboards, and NO trim around the windows.

Tinker - I really like trim around the windows too. Of course then again with the quality of the the track home builders here, I'd almost hate to see what it would look like if they did do it. In our current home, DH put up fluted trim/rosettes (sp?) in a few rooms and it looks really nice. Not sure if he'll do it again in our new house though.

We once toured a very expensive model home near here, and the lack of detail and quality of construction was appalling. They even had cheap hollow core doors throughout. I've been in FL 27 years, and rarely see a home with any 'style', unless it's an older one. Part of it is the tract home mentality, and part of it may have been to appeal to retirees who no longer want to do the maintenance that goes along with nice trim.

We live in the Tampa Bay area and I see a lot of newer houses with lots of trimwork. We will use foam around all of our windows, doors - including the garage doors. It makes a house look well dressed up. I would post pictures but I couldn't figure out how to do it.