Working For The Rich & Famous P.4

It's always an adventure working for the wealthy. This recent project we just finished up was interesting to say the least. It was just up the street from the other project I wrote about here https://ecency.com/hive-178708/@rt395/working-for-the-rich-and

Typically word of mouth is how we get our customers. Rich people like referrals from their friends and our customers like that I am the person actually doing the work rather than brining in a bunch of strangers. If you knew what was in these people's homes you would understand the distrust of using larger companies to do the work.

Anyway, the customers had a leak while they were on vacation in Europe. The leak was in their master bathroom on the second floor. and the kitchen was right below the bathroom. So when it flooded the kitchen as well. So the kitchen and master bathroom were both completely gutted and we came up with a plan to start the kitchen.

The wife was in control of the design and wanted something spectacular compared to the dated, early 90's style kitchen that was there before. The same footprint was fine, but she wanted black cabinets throughout and special countertop to ceiling tower cabinets in the corners.

The project went fairly smooth as the customer was very accomodating and easy to work with. Add to the fact that they temporarily moved out and into a rental house that cost $15,000 a month! We could work without interruptions or constant revisions.

This arch was a bit of a pain in the butt though.

Even though I have a lot of experience building over 20 half-pipes in my youth, putting one upside down and getting it all level & square is just time consuming.

It worked out though.

As we got closer to completion the owner decided she didn't want handles on anything. This was a costly upgrade, about $2500 because we had to replace all of our drawer slides with "touch to open" soft close drawer slides. They are really cool though. You just push on the drawer and it slides open.

Then came the marble.

The fabricators did an excellent job aligning the veins.

Then came the doors and lights, oh my!

The beige doors still needed to painted.

I liked their range that probably cost more than our portion of the job!

The reason the floor is not finished is the customers are fighting with the insurance company over it. The customer wants to replace all of the flooring downstairs because it is dated travertine, but the insurance company is telling them to pound sand. We'll see who wins!

My only complaint with this project is I would have liked to have seen handles & knobs on the doors & drawers. Maybe a crystal or gold color. It would have added a finishing touch. What do you think?

If you'd like to see some other projects I've done for the rich & famous you can visit the links below.

Working For The Rich & Famous P.1 Kitchen & Bath

Working For The Rich & Famous P.2 Kitchen & Bath

Working For The Rich & Famous P.3 Wine Wall

Thanks for reading!