A Fine Home Indeed

This lovely home belongs to a prominent family of our fair city. I first worked in this home as a referral from an award winning designer who had them as one of her clients, and who giving me a lot of wallpaper work in her design show homes. That first job was hanging an expensive fabric wall covering called 'String Cloth' in their entry/hall. That was about 15 years ago. Now, in summer of 2009, we were called back to do an extensive paint job. This home is loaded with high quality cabinetry in the many bathrooms, the kitchen, laundry, and family room. The cabinets were dated in that old bleached pickled oak look and they wanted them all painted. We were there for weeks doing all the prep, priming and enameling. We also painted a few of the bathrooms, painted the brass highlights on the three fireplaces, black, and did some general touch-up throughout the house. The finished result was beyond even my expectations and looked fabulous. We paint a lot of oak, but this was a very tight grained high end wood and painted up wonderfully in some very rich colours. The house was transformed. We got a call back last month and saw that all the kitchen cabinet doors were showing hairline cracks in each panel. We determined that what had happened was that when we scrubbed down the doors, we did not let them dry long enough and when they finally dried under all that paint, the caulking in each panel let go.
We spent a few hours cutting out all the failed caulking, re-caulked, and repainted the doors. I was afraid it would look like a patch job but when the client came back from Palm Springs, they called and said they were delighted and wanted to pay us immediately.
I am sure we will be back here again before they sell and downsize, which may happen soon.