"I had 3 bids on painting the cupboards white. Two contractors were very leery of painting the oak doors due to all the heavy grain saying they many not turn out as well as I'd hoped, though they would paint them if I wanted. I had read the great reviews of Phoenix Refinishing and talked to Stevie on the phone a year before I had the work done. It is a large kitchen with many cabinets, drawers and 6 foot island. I also wanted an oak table painted white to match the cabinets. The laundry room has upper and a lower sink cabinets that was also done. After much consideration I hired Phoenix. They were the most expensive bid I'd gotten but I had a lot of confidence in them after the initial consultation. My husband and I are truly thrilled with the results. The work is exceptional, cabinets and kitchen table turned out just beautiful, smooth with a great hard finish. The workers were very nice, respectful, and amazingly clean. I am so very happy we went with Phoenix, they are more than worth the cost. It is certainly not a project you want botched. I frequently recommend Phoenix to friends and family."

"Mike, the owner, does a great job bringing his contractors and workers in and making sure all the work gets done. We're ultimately going to have them do a future kitchen remodel, that's how strong we felt about their work. They have some wonderful craftsman and are very detail oriented. They make sure that the details are done appropriately."

"Shawn and his team have been the only painters we have used to paint our 2800 sq ft house since we bought it 4 years ago. I’m extremely picky when it comes to home décor and remodeling, and have carefully redone my house room by room over the past 4 years. For each project, we have had Shawn and his team do the painting and drywall repair. Our last project involved painting one room and repainting the ceiling in our upstairs hallway, as well as drywall repair from water stains on the ceiling. My husband and I both work, so we left Shawn a key (as we have done in the past) so he and his team could let themselves in and out of the house as needed. I’ve never worried about leaving them a key – my husband and I are well trained through our jobs in judging character, and we have always trusted Shawn and his team to be unsupervised in our home. Since they were painting the upstairs ceiling, they covered each stair step, stair railing, and floor to make sure no paint got on anything. All the furniture was moved by them out of the room and was done carefully – there was no damage to the furniture or the wood floor. They cleaned up after themselves each day and placed the furniture back safely after the job was complete. The room that Shawn painted this time was very personal to me as this room was to be my personal/private space in the house (I’m an introvert who needs a lot of down time). Shawn made some suggestions regarding the painting of the room, and even though I was nervous with some of his decisions, I trusted him and I am glad I did because the room turned out perfect! It had the exact “feel” and look I was going for and looked like some of the rooms I have admired in magazines. I just read the negative review from the reviewer below. I noticed that he mentioned that Shawn “walked off the job”. I do not know anything personally about the job that was performed, but my husband and I have worked with Shawn and his team enough over the past years to know that he takes a lot of pride in his work and his business, and would never leave a job for any personal reason or because he couldn’t complete the task. The only reason I can imagine that he would leave is because the clients were so difficult that he had no choice. I will continue to recommend Shawn to people and will be using him and his team in the future to complete a few last projects in our home!"

"I would highly recommend this business.  We had them come and restain the deck and at first just powerwash the house.  They scheduled the work right away.  After doing the pressure washing, there were some areas with paint chips under the soffit.  Mike offered to repaint those for free.  During this, they noticed areas of the soffit that were rotten, so we had them repair those areas of the wood.  They also fixed a few screens that were damaged during the pressure washing for free.  
Everything turned out great, and we are very happy we had this work done.  Mike and Crystal are very professional and easy to work with.  I will be having them do some more work on our house in the near future.
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"Great experience working with Danny Rosenberger! I'm a DIY'er that with an older home that got over my head with a living room remodel. Danny was able to come in, assess the situation, and make recommendations on how to deal with surprises like rough cut framing, nothing being straight or square, and even spotted the reason we had cracks forming in our ceiling. His 20+ years of experience showed in the way he was able to bring order to the chaos. He was extremely efficient and conscious about keeping a clean job site. The results were way better than anything I expected with no indication at all that there were any challenges. Because of this experience I also had him do the tile flooring in another area that I was planning to attempt myself. He finished lighting fast, floors are solid and completely flat, and look amazing. He is a craftsman and I will be using him again on my next bathroom project."

"The painter was very friendly.  He was also efficient.   However, I don't feel that I got 4 hours of work.  He stopped painting on at least 3-4 occasions to go sit in his van and answer phone calls.   I also had to touch up areas that he missed after he left.    He probably painted for a total of 3 1/2 hours.  He didn't offer to stay any extra time for the time he was on the phone.   I would suggest that if he is going to sell 4 hour deals then he should give extra time for any time he takes away from painting.  He also left the water running on 2 different spigots after cleaning his brushes.  I had to turn these spigots off.  One of the spigots flooded by backyard and was on for probably 30-60 minutes.

He told me that he would come back within a week to do another job.  He never showed up.   When I called, he said he got busy with other jobs and it would be another 2 weeks before he could come back.  He offered to come back but I decided to find someone else.

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"Hello, My name is Phil Carr-Jones, I am reviewing my experience of working with and building my own kitchen, using cabinets and doors from Arkansas Wood Door. While I am an Episcopal Priest, it turns out I get to do a lot of things they don't teach you in seminary. Over the years, I have had to get fairly skilled in all the trades, including, no surprise, carpentry. But I am by no means an expert. For instance, I employed a retired carpenter to help out with the crown molding and other trim. Apart from that though, this is all my and my wife's work. So let me state up front, Arkansas Wood Doors is the go to place for the DIY’er who is thinking of remodeling their own kitchen. Here's why: I searched the web for months, literally doing comparisons and research on flat pack rta cabinets. I went to the big box store for a design and pricing in their three lines of cabinets, and I went in for a consult with a small custom shop in my area. Here's what I found. 99 outof 100 rta cabinet companies have their product made in china which means the standards for formaldehyde are going to be as fishy as they smell, plus you can only get cabinets in fixed sizes so if you looking to eeck out every last inch of space you're going to lose a lot and you'll be using a lot of filler strips wasting what could have been useful storage. If you want to go custom, then you only have less than a handful of online options, companies that will make to order in any dimension. For instance, I only wanted an 8 inches deep spice cabinet to allow for greater working room over the counter. My wife and I are pretty serious about cooking from pastries to mains and sides. We want a very serious kitchen. Plus, I'll tall so I needed the room. In any case, if you want something custom your choices online are limited. The big box stores don't really do custom and are just as limited in their options as are the online rta places. Most online rtas offer far cheaply made boxes with construction methods less sturdy. I have found that if I buy cheap, I shouldnt expect my kitchen to hold up past a few years. The finish will fade. The drawers will warp. The joints will open up. The big box stores basically offer the same thing, too. When I go to a big box store to buy something, I do it knowing I probably willl get a year out of it, whether that’s a lawn chair of a power tool. I mean when was the last time you regretting spending too much money on a better grade of power tool? So if you want quality, a better and safer grade building material and much wider choices in sizing then your basically down to three or four options. I went with Arkansas Wood Door and am completely pleased and impressed by the experience. Now I could have spent twice what I did and gone to a small custom shop and gotten the same thing, but I am in to saving money and frankly I enjoy the challenge. AWD worked with me directly. Working up the order and getting the plan for each box just right. If you have never designed and built a kitchen before, there are plenty of tips and guidance on the web and I recommend you heartily research all of the aspects and complications involved. I hit a couple of unexpected bumps. But more about that below. So do your research. For instance you can save a lot of money by building the plinths yourself and only order squared off boxes without the toe kick. By making the platform on which you place the lower cabinets first, you can get that plumb and level, so throwing up the boxes is a breeze. And again, the cabinets are also less expense, a complete all around win. AWD uses an easy system for matching up box parts so assembly was easy. No special tools required. Given the many parts and I used a mix of frameless and face framed cabinets, there was a moment or two when in amongst all the materials I got nervous about having everything I needed, but low and behold, all was right there in the end. I also recommend the concept from French cooking "mis en place" that is have all your ingredients in place and all your tools where you need them before starting out. Also, it was a lot easier to work with my wife than doing it alone, but I did a few by myself and so if that is your only option than you should have no problem. I've assembled a lot of cheaper Swedish flat packed furniture in my day, and the quality and sturdiness of AWD leaves no doubt about how long these will last. Just rock solid. Great thing about AWD is the cost to quality ratio. Cant beat it. Which also means if you make a mistake the replacement is so reasonable it becomes not big deal. I mis-measured one box and so I needed to order the right size. Worked out fine, but that was because AWD had an incredibly fast turn around. The other few reliable companies are several weeks to months. And these other places are crazy expensive. And in truth, the other companies are a complete rip off on trim and accessories. AWD pricing was so amenable that my mistakes cost me so little in comparison with what I was saving. So there's a built in confidence for the first timer. Also AWD made one mistake on the placement of a hinge in two doors. They immediately and without question remade them and sent them out in under ten days. You just can't get that service anywhere in the custom cabinet world. It was so affordable I upgraded on one side to black walnut. Trying doing that at the other quality shops. The quality of the roll out drawers and top drawer boxes is superb and the hinges and under-mount sliders are top grade excellent. The hardware was the easiest part frankly. Their system, for lining up the hardware is just so easy. Drill driver is all you need as the placement is already leveled for you. SO: high end quality custom built cabinets, superior custom support, fastest turnaround in the marketplace, most affordable pricing out there, excellent hardware, and oh yeah, I almost forget, color choices. They offer complete line of lacquer - just pick a SW color and they'll match it. SO completely and truly custom for a fraction of cost without sacrificing any quality. The Rev. Philip Carr-Jones"

"They were professionals from the estimate to the planning through the repair. Worked **** ** project to ensure my satisfaction."

"It was a quality experience. I contacted Bill becasue I felt the other quotes I was receiving were too costly. Bill worked with me to help come up with a plan for reinstalling solid surface counter tops within my budget. He quoted a price, completed the project on time and for ewxactly what he said it would cost. I am very pleased with the work and the experience."

"There were some issues with the install but Trey and Mike were on top of it and went above and beyond to make it right. I would recommend them to anyone.
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