Couple launches mobile kitchen renovation business – Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — Paul and Kim Satenstein know what it’s like to suffer by a lengthy kitchen renovation.

A couple of yrs back, the few made the decision to makeover their out-of-date 1950s kitchen. The system left them with out a place to put together foodstuff for a month and a fifty percent.

“It’s wonderful how considerably you can cook dinner on an electric powered scorching plate and a microwave,” Paul reported. “And undertaking dishes in the rest room sink is normally fascinating.”

The pair is now encouraging other owners stay away from a in the same way demanding condition. Paul and Kim have teamed up to start a neighborhood Kitchen area Tune-Up franchise. With a home business office in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Kitchen Tune-Up is a cellular organization that specializes in rapid kitchens and cabinetry updates. 

“We aim on a person to five day remodels in which you have a operating kitchen area at the close of every single working day,” Paul said.

Salisbury Kitchen area Tune-Up is serving homeowners in the course of Salisbury, Harmony, China Grove, Spencer, East Spencer, Rockwell, and Kannapolis and has a selection of renovation possibilities. None of the options will set a kitchen out of commission for as well very long.

Paul, at first from New York, and Kim, a Georgia native, moved from Virginia to Salisbury about two a long time back. Paul taught architecture at a community superior faculty and Kim shipped the Charlotte Observer and Salisbury Put up for about a ten years. Hunting for a alter in their occupation, the two landed on Kitchen area Tune-Up. The firm has much more than 250 franchised territories nationwide.

“Kitchen Tune-Up genuinely appeared to in good shape where my skills is, my awareness of architecture, engineering and building,” Paul explained. “It just fit the invoice, so to speak.”

Paul is no stranger to functioning with energy instruments, but he and Kim put in two and a half months discovering the finer points of kitchen area renovations in Texas. They’re also in a 12 7 days on-line program. They tackled their first makeover a several weeks ago, changing the cabinets in a historic dwelling in downtown Harmony. 

Personalization is a essential portion of the system. Even before Paul and Kim go into a kitchen area, they visit the household with doorway samples to make certain the home-owner is delighted with what’s being put in.

“We enable them see the product in their dwelling,” Kim stated.

Kitchen Tune-Up presents hundreds of cupboard shades, Kim stated, from significant-gloss Coca-Cola red to beige. Paul reported he’s not one particular to influence a homeowner’s final decision.

“Everyone’s dwelling is their castle,” he reported. “It has to be individual to them. What I dislike, other men and women like. What I like, other people may not like. It is not a make a difference of what I like in their dwelling, it is a make any difference of what they like in their residence.”

They can also “revitalize” wood cabinets if a homeowner isn’t wanting for a entire substitution. 

“As opposed to changing just about anything, we can carry it 80% again to the place it was when it was new,” Paul explained.

Kitchen area Tune-Up will update kitchen area walls, repair flooring and substitute countertops as well. Their purview extends previous the kitchen. Paul mentioned they’ll substitute or insert cupboards in other sections of the home as nicely.

Inspite of the source chain troubles plaguing lots of industries, Paul explained it has not been much too hard to get products essential. But raising costs have been an obstacle, he reported.

Paul and Kim have appreciated aiding other people generate kitchens they’re joyful with, but they’ve also appreciated currently being in a position to commit a lot more time collectively.

“I don’t overlook her anymore,” Paul mentioned. “I get to devote a whole lot of time with her, which helps make me pleased.”

Additional information about Paul and Kim’s business can be located on the internet at kitchentuneup.com.