TENHULZEN RESIDENTIAL

Description of Work: Needed two sunrooms rebuilt (both were leaking water). Also had an under-house structural beam reinforced.

Description of Work: Added a room to the house. Took way longer than promised, way more money. Couldn't get the project manager to return calls or emails. They wont be around long if this behavior persists. AND they treat their employees like s***.

Description of Work: They remodeled our kitchen and two bathrooms. The work was completed in two and a half months and completed two weeks ahead of schedule.

Description of Work: They designed and built a downstairs bedroom and added a shower in the downstairs bathroom. I am completely taken with the professionalism, skill and kindness of Tenhulzen Design/Build. I was completely satisfied and happy with this project.

Description of Work: Over the past 10 years,Tenhulzen has completed a number of remodeling projects at our 3,000 sf home, including: Complete master bathroom remodel Complete guest bathroom remodel Demolition of an old deck and design and build of a new deck and patio of approximately 800 sf Annual maintenance of deck finish and cleaning Installation and finish of hardwood flooring interior painting and finish carpentry

Description of Work: We used Tenhulzen Remodeling Inc. We had them do a couple on minor cosmetic repairs in the exterior of the house.

Description of Work: They replaced two very expensive windows and extended our gas line outside.

Description of Work: We hired Tenhulzen remodeling to basically do updating to the flooring, paint, and mill work starting in our master bedroom, and including our 2nd story landing, the hallway down to our bonus room, our 3 secondary bedrooms, and the painting ONLY of the 2 secondary bathrooms. The biggest part of the job was our master bath. I was also not pleased with the golden oak bannister and stair treads on our front stair case. They also did a new fireplace insert in our master bedroom. NO kitchen work. Only the master bath. Let me preface this by saying that I think that each and every person in the Tenhulzen family is a nice person. Would I hire them again to do work in my house? Not if they were the last design/build contractor in the state of WA. As for their design team? Let me say that again, the lady that was on the job is a very nice person. Does she know design? Not what we wanted. Did not have a clue. She may do the glass tile, natural wood, woodsy PNW modern look well, but that is it. Do not ask her to do a traditional east coast, "Something's Gotta Give" type of look. She just does not get it. I gave them a notebook of pages of designs that I like. I tried to explain the look. I thought, surely she must know. Christopher Peacock kitchens are very well known and done all over...that is the look I was going for for this house. This house lends itself to that look. It would look pretty darn funny with bird cage wrought iron balusters and glass tile back splashes...not to mention that, imo, that stuff will look terribly dated in a few years. Like Jeff Lewis on "Flipping Out" said, pick up a magazine people. Travertine has been a tired look for 10 years. I'm sure the white CP kitchen with marble counters and subway tile back splash will look old hat in a few years and kind of is already, but at least it goes with this house and is reminiscent of houses from years ago. It is almost impossible to keep a house looking timeless but I do feel that the design/look should mesh with the house. I kept telling them I wanted this house to be more like the houses in the Broadmoor or the Highlands or Capitol Hill. Trying to tell them something that I liked that maybe they could relate to. I did not want a new money eastsider look. My house does NOT go well with any arts and crafts or craftsman look or any woodsy, more modern slate floors,stacked stone, and glass tile back splash or vessel sink look. I can appreciate that look in the right house. But not this one! Tenhulzen's designer messed up the lay out of the master bathroom so badly that we finally said, enough is enough...bye-bye and do not come back. Not that she did anyway. She barely ever came back unless it was to try to "sell" something else. She never checked on her suggestions or the installations. I e-mailed her a concern I had about the new closet doors that were hung because I felt that something needed to be done as far as a molding or something to make them look better. The response I got was, "Ask the project superintendent." Hello? He was not and is not a designer. Not an aesthetics person. It looked like heck, still looks like heck and this was a job that ended up costing us over $500,000 for mostly paint and flooring! TR did not even want to deal much with the horrible mba lay out. I honestly think they wanted us to just accept it and shut up. Just take our $ and be done. Well... being done took 3 months longer than they said, too. I understand that things happen and I would rather things be right than be rushed through but there was also an awful lot of days that no one came near this house when things could have been being done. An awful lot of days. I can count on one hand the number of times the main project mgr/Tenhulzen brother came out to the job and again, it was constantly, "have you thought about the second phase of your project, yada, yada." NO...get the first one done and at the rate you are going, it will be a 120 degree day in Seattle before YOU get the second phase. Unreal. Totally unreal. There is so much bad that I cannot even begin to know where to start. The supposed "designer" that Tenhulzen insisted was the best for our job, never checked paint, carpet, etc. together. She brought little tiny paint samples and we picked the colors from those. After she left, I went back, got samples of the paint, did swatches and ended up changing 4 out of the 7 colors. She would NOT listen to me to paint my son's room the color it had been previously. We had to have it repainted after it was painted the color she chose.I bought the paint. I bought many different colors for my other son's bathroom. What did we HIRE professionals for? They sure were not much help! This was so unprofessional and we paid her thousands of dollars in addition to what we paid Tenhulzen. The biggest faux pas she did was the master bath! She touts herself as a professional designer? I have never seen such a big mess in my entire life. She had all kinds of towers and none of them were symmetrical and the space where they went was not large enough to warrant the use of towers on the counter tops. One of them did not tie into the soffit at the ceiling. There was no way that it would work. We ended up having to have it cut off. We did not use the other 2 towers. The bathroom design should have been simple and straight forward. I have no idea what she was thinking? It was crazy. She also had separate mirrors instead of one large framed mirror. I like that look with sconces on either side. Of course she did not have it planned that way. Instead she had super cheap lights that were to be mounted through/on the mirror. Well? The worst was that the mirrors were not centered over the sinks! Who does that? It looked horrible. I wanted a pretty elegant but understated bathroom using carerra marble and white subway tile and polished nickel fixtures. I got a hodge podge of calcatta marble, carerra marble, white subway tile, basket weave marble tile with a beautiful border, okay...that was all okay. The tile setter was a master craftsman. Sweet kid. No problems with any of the subs on the job. However, THEN I got the most hideous glass tile in my shower. I am so unhappy with it that I am going to have to spend thousands more to have it removed and have either subway tile and a feature strip of the border from the floor pattern put in the shower or else have the basket weave with the border put where the glass tile is. Very bad design. Very bad. Then there is the issue of the lights/mirrors. When we discovered that the original mirrors were not centered over the sinks to the point that it looked so distracting, my husband told TR the solution would be to do away with all towers and put in a big framed mirror with the lights mounted through the mirror. It was the only logical thing to do. Oh no, the mirrors were already ordered, they were super expensive, blah, blah, blah. Months later they came. By then they agreed that the only solution was to not use any of the towers but put the mirrors centered over the sinks. They were only 2 inches apart. They looked horrible. The finish looked horrible with the polished nickel. The light fixtures that TR and the designer chose were horrendous. Cheap and ugly and pewter. My husband and I went ahead and ordered some Visual Comfort fixtures that were 3 times as expensive and paid retail for them. They are polished nickel. Well, then, all we got was complaining because the light fixtures we ordered were too big. They are not. I could have bought better fixtures than they did at Lowe's. This was for a supposed $93,000 bathroom. The mirrors were hung too low. I have 6-8 holes behind the bathroom mirror where the job superintendent kept measuring wrong for the light boxes for the fixtures. In the end? They ended up conceeding that what would look best was one large mirror trimmed out in painted molding as my husband had suggested 2 months prior!

Description of Work: Tenhulzen Remodeling gave me an estimate on construction.

Description of Work: Rebuild foundation undernearth bathroom and replace siding on house.

Description of Work: We contacted Tenhulzen Remodeling Inc. to get an estimate to demolish and rebuild a 1400 sq. foot porch.

Description of Work: They came to do general remodeling.

Description of Work: We use Tenhulzen Remodeling for our remodel when we moved in. They added 1700 square feet and remodeled the entire kitchen. They added a new back staircase and turned the existing garage into a guest bedroom. It was a huge remodel. They are actually here now doing some warranty work.

Description of Work: I remodeled my basement kitchenette. Originally just a simple sink with a cabinet on each side, I added cabinets to the left and right, moved the sink, added a pantry cabinet and 3 upper cabinets. Also created space for a dishwasher.

Description of Work: We are in the process of remodeling of our master bathroom. I just hired him and he has started the work yet.