Kitchen Tune-Up

Kitchen Tune-Up did an outstanding job with our cabinet refacing. The amazing thing is they completely refaced with Cherry wood for half of the quote I got to replace the kitchen from another company. My kitchen looks brand new. I had been sick and tired of my old,chipping white painted cabinets,but couldn't afford to replace them with new wood cabinets. Kitchen Tune-Up of Santa Barbara was recommended to me by a friend who recently had them do their kitchen and earlier had them cabinet reface their bathrooms a couple of years ago. Furthermore, they started on Monday and finished by Friday and I have a relatively large kitchen ! The gentleman who installed the cabinet refacing was Chris, the owner's son, and he did a fabulous job. My kitchen now looks fabulous and everyone who comes into the house comments on how beautiful it is. This local family- run company is so customer oriented, they showed up each day on time, cleaned up every day, were very knowledgeable and made sure I was totally happy. I LOVE my kitchen. I would highly recommend Kitchen Tune-Up of Santa Barbara. more

Kitchen Tune-Up is tops...hands down!!! We found Kitchen Tune-Up through a referral from our realtor,who raved about them. And she was spot on. The care that these people gave us is not something you see from a business these days. We wanted new cabinets originally,but they brought up the idea of refacing our cabinets,instead. They saved us time,money(lots),and a big disruption in our kitchen was avoided. Professional and experts in their craft. We could not be happier. What a wonderful experience! more

Everything was perfect! I just wanted to tell you how much we appreciated the level of workmanship and how beautiful our cabinets look. I'm really, really,really happy with them and how polite your workers are,and it's very evident they have work ethic and pride in their work,they're not just in to get it done and get out. They are very meticulous and we didn't know at night we had people working here---everything was cleaned up at night. And I will highly reccomend you all over the place. It was a wonderful experience,the results have been fabulous. We're just blown away! If you ever need a reccomendation,you can call me,definitely. You guys are AWESOME! more

Kitchen Tune Up (KTU) was hired to reface cabinetry in our kitchen. The veneer used for the cabinet face frames kept coming loose and the application of it was quite sloppy (debris ""lumps"" behind it, edges not cleanly or accurately cut, etc.). After the veneer came loose twice in several places, we told KTU we did not want a third application and that they could paint the face frames instead. KTU refused to paint the face frames and informed us that, because we would not let them apply veneer a third time, we had breached our contract and therefore they had no obligation to finish other parts of the job that still weren't done. KTU then stopped work on the job and filed a lien on our property for the balance on the contract even though much of the contracted work was not done. We did not pay off the lien but instead took KTU to small claims court and won. KTU appealed and we won again. The appeal court awarded us $2,891.00 for veneer that was removed and for work we had to hire other contractors to do, $120.00 in court costs, and $450.00 in attorney's fees because we had to consult with an attorney to initiate getting the fraudulent lien removed. (By law, a contractor may file a lien ONLY for the value of work actually completed. At the time KTU stopped work they owed US money because we had already paid 90% of the contract total.) Throughout the period of the job KTU was difficult to communicate with, and the two personnel (the owner and her son) present at the court hearings both told the judge many untruths. Fortunately, it was easy to prove their dishonesty. more