creating spaces that express quality
ABOUT:
While I did grow up in Oklahoma City, I’ve been coming and going from Kansas City since very early in my life to visit family, and later to work and to live. My Kansas City family still has very successful tradesmen and contractors in the Kansas City market. I was trained in my twenties by a painting contractor who restored the exteriors of older and historic homes that often still had intact carriage houses replete with servicing equipment for horse drawn carriages. I learned the pleasure of being mindful and patient with my work. Homes in Hyde Park Kansas City demand that kind of attention because of their large scale and detail.
In my mid twenties I returned to Oklahoma City and interned with a high-end residential remodel finisher who gave realtors, decorators and homeowners in the Nichols Hills neighborhood a quality face-lift to their bungalows and architecturally inspired ranch homes.
I soon graduated to contracting for myself and became a valued finisher and refinisher, including faux and decorative treatments to my list of skill sets.
Economic changes created an environment that led me to move into additional trades like trim carpentry, sheetrock and texturing and many other relevant trades in the home remodel industry. Becoming more flexible and relevant to the changes of homeowners’ lifestyles has brought me to a comfortable and confident place in giving a family or individual the right improvements at the right time in their lives.
My goal is to interact with a client and envision clearly what their hopes are for more beautiful and better functioning exterior and interior spaces. I have stayed in this industry because I like the interaction and the reward of giving these things to the very best kind of folks. My ideal client is a person who values communication and a non-hurried approach to home restoration.
Over the years in the Oklahoma City market I’ve had many opportunities to work as liaison between homeowner and insurance adjusters to find a suitable approach to repairing homes damaged by leaky and storm damaged roofs. I do like the work of making a room appear as if no event had ever happened. In my list of services, I don’t value one skill over another, but I do derive an immense amount of pleasure in any trade that I perform because of the careful attention that I give in my approach to the painting, staining, trim carpentry and related trades.
