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About Odus Sweetin
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For over 30 years my profession has been a full time homebuilder and remodeler.The range of my projects has been from a few hundred to 750k. Since the home improvement laws` inception, I have been a TN State Licensed Home Improvement Contractor, involved in remodeling and repairing homes. Evolving from the older lead carpenter system of the mid sixties, I have been a master carpenter, a journeyman plumber, and a journeyman electrician. If you are interested in asking someone who actually has qualified as proficient performing the task, ask me. I am willing to try to help you.
Experience
Starting in 1969, I have continuously been a residential home building and remodeling contractor. During the seventies and early eighties, I was a residential electrician. During the early to mid seventies, a residential plumber. Now I still advise and lead my sub crafts in all phases of residential and light commercial remodeling. We limit our commercial work to light office remodeling.
Licensed Tennessee State Home Improvement Contractor
Certified Master Carpenter
Former Licenced Journeyman Plumber
Former Licensed Journneyman Electrician
As a long time of the local Home Builders Association affiliated with the NAHB for many years, I have received numerous awards including Remodelor of the Year for 1997 and 2000, President's Award, etc.
Chairman of the local National Association of Home Builders associate HBA of Southern Tennessee Remodelors[tm]Council.
Published nationally as an example in Remodeling Magazine.
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Expert: Odus Sweetin
Date: 4/9/2005
Subject: kitchen cabinets
Question
Hi. I just moved into my new apartment and the kitchen cabinets are horrible. The men gave me a nice new green marble countertop but the cabinets are painted with brown paint and it looks so tacky. I dont know if this is something that i can do on my own (no experience) or pay someone (probaly charge me too much). In my mind I dont want to spend alot because its my apartment and not my house. I am just interested in giving the exterior a face lift.
So i was thinking, maybe take off the brown paint and give the wood another stain.
It sounds simple but i dont know all of the technicalities.
SO, my questions are: Is this something i can do on my own? How do you take paint off of cabinets? Is this something that i could buy from HOme depot? Also, could you tell the possible estimates that someone could can charge to do about 12 small cabinets?
any advice would help
Answer
Hello Kamilah,
Yes this is a job you can do for less than $100-150. Since it can be labor intensive, you will pay well for a tradesperson to do it.
Preparation will be your biggest concern. Now, the color choices will be more earth tone or pastel.
Remove all of the hardware. Mask all of the areas where you do not want paint. Wear protective respirators, lightly sand all areas to be painted, spray on a primer, and coat of paint, or you could have a painter come in and spray it with their sprayer after you mask everything.
A painter will make it look easy. The task completed is never quite appreciated by home dwellers until they attempt to do a good job too.
If you purchase some really good paint brushes designed to be used with your choice of paint, you can brush on the paint. Please use drop cloths for protection of your floors and other items in the kitchen.
Here on about.com/allexperts.com, they do not give us a lot of space to explain absolutely every detail, so please learn all of the details for your particular choice of paints. Follow the advice of the pros in professional painting suppliers' stores. Big box stores such as HD may not necessarily have the best advisers available. On the web, homestore.com is good for reference.
Pricing is not accurate from one area to another. Here I would pay a painter and suppliers up to a thousand dollars for this job in many instances. Our company would charge a minimum of about 1500. Paint could cost about 20-35 per gallon. Two gallons, (one gallon primer and one gallon paint), might do the job. Your landlord might pay for the painting supplies or the paint.
If you do a lot of the preparation work, and good painter with a sprayer might do this job really reasonable for you? Yes, preparation is more than actually doing the painting in almost any good paint job. Repaints on home exteriors can have as much as 80% of the costs in just the preparation work and supplies.
If in your budget, refacing the cabinets might be an option for you. HD has kits available for the new doors and veneers.
I hope this helps give you some direction to a solution for your problem.
Have a good day,
Odus
www.sweetincompany.com
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