Calling all Referrals

To my past clients - I'd love the give you a thanks for all the referrals. I'm 100% dependent on your feedback and your referrals to you friends and family. Tell me if you've given my name out, to whom, and I'll do my best to refer you. Here's how referrals work for me.

Guy I know gives my name to a restaurant owner, I do work on his business and his home, he recommends me to a guy he meets at Home Depot, do work for that guy, he refers me to a friend trying to sell a house needs some love, I work there and his other house, then 2 years later I get a call out of the blue from someone on his block that saw my truck, they hire me after I tell them I've worked on their street and they check me out.

Past customers, email me and tell me how to thank you best!

very busy these days

Finishing up some minor jobs, starting a big one next week. The pics here are of the existing front porch and before of the back door. I'll post updates as this and the kitchen inside proceed over the next few months.

House built in 1907, our attempt is to make the back porch look original. We're copying the front porch to the extend we can, and hiding things like plywood on the roof instead of 1x4, and all the earthquake stuff required now. Shaped rafter tails, cedar shake, we're doing it all.

Engineering by Hayden Consulting Engineers, great guys. They do all my work. Very easy to show them my specific needs and have the connections designed to meet my design constraints. Better than a big shop where you're nothing but a cog. They're a small firm with a very personal touch. Highly recommend.

Kitchen to come in side, more details another day. Inset flush white custom built cabinets, Viking range, Subzero refer, lots of nice features. Our client cares that the design mixes well with the home as it is and we like to work that way. All the design done in house.

All for now.

home improvement show

Exhibited at the Home Improvement show at the OCC this last weekend. Met plenty of great people, some may be client someday.

Did a drawing, grand prize was this bench seat, all recycled materials. Second prize was the birdhouse, also recycled materials, though a little more jazzy.

Bench is old growth fir from various jobsites, demolition etc.

Birdhouse is leftover siding from several jobs.

Before and after of a recent kitchen. from rotten pergo and separate kitchen to open floor plan, real oak floors, better seating, ready for entertianing. Client is a trained chef and loves to cook, even more now in the new kitchen.

Cabinets on right are 30" deep, hides the refer depth and lots of storage. No clutter here. Pulls outs with counters embedded allow for blender, coffeemaker, et al to be behind closed doors.

King Harvest coffee project

Check out the work here. King Harvest coffee opened at 1502 SE Morrison this summer. Been making hummus in the back for years, added coffee shop. Still sell the hummus. It is fantastic.

We only do small commercial work. Here we added an ADA bathroom, put in the serving counter (and made it ourselves), made the kiddie chair and tables and the lookie door to the factory area.

Good coffee and a drivethru. Go in once to see the work. Say hello to Howard for me.

Classic railing lives on

New but classic railing as fence with curved gate. and on a porch on the same house. Fence added 5 years after porch railing, the wife liked it so much.

Birdhouse tops off a post in the fence, made from leftovers from the porch featured in the last post.

Many projects one house

This is how we like to work. I added these new front steps, and replaced the contemporary door with a classic CVG fir door. Homeowner chose a Baldwin door handle, best I've ever installed. Replaced 5 interior doors as well, retro-fitted new 5 panels to existing frames.

Railing was copied from a porch down the street from a job of mine years ago, then modified for a fence design and now for a handrail. Very classic look with modern updates for concrete anchors. It looks great in all 3 applications. I'll include pictures of it in the other applications in another post.

Green house is after paint, final steps visible there as well. Wish I could say I did the paint job, but it was prearranged with someone else. Homeowner chose great colors for the style of house.