Kitchen designer ordered the wrong cabinets - what's reasonable comp?
Jennifer P
5 years ago
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Comments (3)I had my existing kitchen restained not refinished, so not sure what the difference is...I keep my original cabinets which were made of Ash and had every one retained. They stripped off the exisiting finish down to the bare wood and restained from scratch. Personally from what I understand (and I may be wrong), I liked this method better than refinished b/c I THOUGHT I understood refinishing to be that they put something over the existing stain. In my case, I kept the original wood, got it stripped naked and they stained this by hand. For this, it cost 50.00 a door and 25.00 a drawer front to do this. I did not need to have the bases done (kept the original color) so not sure of price... I used www.furnituremedic.com...See MoreComps, not comps, and emotion.
Comments (58)No, $415 has not sold. But there was another house at just about that price that sold recently, and it was similar in condition and upgrade status to $415, but had air conditioning. (Which is why I think both $415 and $380 are overpriced) But I think the main thing with $380 is the negativity of the feedback overall. She knew the owners of the sold house and knows somehow that the feedback on $415 have not been as consistently negative. In other words it seems that, although they got/get a certain amount of "not interested" in the final analysis, they at least are getting some positive feedback on pricing and how it shows. I know the bottom line is getting the house sold and getting people to check the box that says "yes, interested" (and following though). But it was very helpful to me as a seller (who got a year +'s worth of "not interested" ) --to get feedback that said shows:"excellent" and priced: "just right" consistently enough to know that there were other factors involved. I think she is having trouble dealing with how bad a lot of house hunters apparently think this property is. She said to me that "they can *see what it looks like in the pictures and they can *read the listing, if they think it is so terrible why are they wasting their time?" I think this is a good question, and I think that what they are doing is looking at every house like this in the neighborhood and comparing them all. They may not be paying that much attention to those listing pictures. For example, my listing clearly stated that it was 2BR and 1 Bath and that there was an elevator in the building but you had to look for it. It also explicitly explained the condo fees. There was a LOT of feedback that it would be perfect but they wanted a powder room or another room like a den, that there was No Elevator, and that the condo fees were too high. --So why were they looking? Why were they missing the elevator (we put signs up eventually), and why were they missing the condo fees? I think because they were looking at Everything that met a general criteria rather than specific properties....See MoreWrong Cabinet Color Ordered by Contractor
Comments (13)Since you like the color that was ordered by mistake and, as you say, it is growing on you, then why not consider it a "fortunate accident" and go ahead and use the cabinets? Of course, if you don't like the color and have your heart set on what you oringinally ordered, then you should insist on getting what you wanted. Here's what concerns me ... if your contractor has to absorb the full cost of those wrongly ordered cabinets, even if it is HIS FAULT, you may end up suffering for it. He will be doing your job now with a huge cut in his profit, maybe even for NO profit. That is a very costly error on his part. Even if that has nothing to do with you, I'd be concerned that the quality of the rest of the job would suffer. Have you discussed NOT using the cabinets? What was his attitude? I would also want the entire order inspected before deciding ... is everything else satisfactory regarding the condition of the cabinets?...See MoreHelp! One Kitchen Cabinet Painted the Wrong Color
Comments (12)I own a company that goes into homes and re sprays this exact product all the time. We do excellent touch ups repairs on them as well. When presented with a larger spray that involves the doors and drawers. We do our best to get a company involved that can hang them and spray them for us and we go in and do the boxes onsite. There have been many times we have created our own way of hanging them, but it is a pain. You have conversion varnish on there now. We would come in to re spray with conversion varnish hopefully supplied by the company that finished them or get the color code and go get some made. The finish if applied correctly will be as durable. Being sprayed onsite is not any finishers favorite thing to do, but it is possible. The real thing you need to consider is what else can be damaged in removing the incorrect parts. If you allow them to spray onsite, and all goes well in a few hours everything will be done. If you wait for new product they need to uninstall a lot, re install, perform any touch ups if needed to your walls, floors and possibly the cabinets themselves. All of these areas are at risk of damage if uninstalled. Touch up is a very big part of the cabinet industry. Other than owning Woodright Repair Services in Tacoma. I am a Technical Rep for Konig North America for Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. Konig is a touch up material manufacturer that is 125 years old. My Konig customers are directly large cabinet companies. They all have some times several touch up stations within the factory. Sometimes even set up to respray parts that were shot the wrong color. This is to help reduce waste. If those cabinets come off your wall, they go into a dumpster. I would give them a shot at it once. If they blow it then get new cabinets....See Morekidshop
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