Couple launches mobile kitchen renovation business – Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — Paul and Kim Satenstein know what it is like to experience by means of a lengthy kitchen area renovation.

A couple several years in the past, the few made a decision to makeover their out-of-date 1950s kitchen. The process still left them without a put to prepare meals for a thirty day period and a half.

“It’s amazing how much you can cook on an electric powered warm plate and a microwave,” Paul claimed. “And executing dishes in the toilet sink is usually appealing.”

The pair is now assisting other owners stay clear of a in the same way stress filled circumstance. Paul and Kim have teamed up to launch a neighborhood Kitchen Tune-Up franchise. With a dwelling business in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Kitchen Tune-Up is a mobile organization that specializes in brief kitchens and cabinetry updates. 

“We aim on a single to 5 working day remodels where you have a operating kitchen at the end of just about every day,” Paul stated.

Salisbury Kitchen Tune-Up is serving homeowners through Salisbury, Harmony, China Grove, Spencer, East Spencer, Rockwell, and Kannapolis and has a amount of renovation solutions. None of the selections will set a kitchen out of fee for also long.

Paul, at first from New York, and Kim, a Georgia native, moved from Virginia to Salisbury about two decades in the past. Paul taught architecture at a neighborhood large faculty and Kim delivered the Charlotte Observer and Salisbury Write-up for about a decade. Looking for a modify in their job, the two landed on Kitchen Tune-Up. The firm has much more than 250 franchised territories nationwide.

“Kitchen Tune-Up genuinely appeared to suit the place my skills is, my knowledge of architecture, engineering and construction,” Paul claimed. “It just fit the invoice, so to speak.”

Paul is no stranger to doing work with electricity tools, but he and Kim expended two and a half weeks learning the finer factors of kitchen area renovations in Texas. They are also in a 12 week online class. They tackled their first makeover a several months ago, changing the cabinets in a historic dwelling in downtown Concord. 

Personalization is a important section of the method. Even ahead of Paul and Kim go into a kitchen, they go to the property with doorway samples to ensure the property owner is delighted with what is currently being set up.

“We permit them see the merchandise in their household,” Kim stated.

Kitchen area Tune-Up delivers hundreds of cupboard colors, Kim mentioned, from large-gloss Coca-Cola red to beige. Paul said he’s not a single to influence a homeowner’s selection.

“Everyone’s house is their castle,” he explained. “It has to be personal to them. What I dislike, other people really like. What I love, other individuals could not like. It is not a subject of what I like in their home, it is a make any difference of what they like in their residence.”

They can also “revitalize” wooden cupboards if a home-owner isn’t wanting for a full substitution. 

“As opposed to changing something, we can provide it 80% again to exactly where it was when it was new,” Paul stated.

Kitchen Tune-Up will update kitchen area walls, fix flooring and replace countertops as very well. Their purview extends previous the kitchen. Paul reported they’ll replace or add cupboards in other areas of the property as perfectly.

Regardless of the source chain concerns plaguing a lot of industries, Paul said it hasn’t been much too demanding to get materials needed. But escalating charges have been an obstacle, he claimed.

Paul and Kim have enjoyed serving to others generate kitchens they’re delighted with, but they’ve also appreciated staying in a position to invest much more time with each other.

“I really don’t overlook her anymore,” Paul explained. “I get to shell out a ton of time with her, which helps make me happy.”

A lot more information and facts about Paul and Kim’s small business can be identified on the web at kitchentuneup.com.