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For Alameda residents Jerry and Joy Wilkins, owners of a crave-standing kitchen renovation company in Oakland, the chance to redo and rebuild an entire house in their own town was too sweet to pass up.
In November, Customs Kitchens, a fixed that has occupied its Telegraph Avenue home for more than 60 years, tied for principal prize at the San Francisco Bay Chapter of National Association of the Remodeling Persistence's annual awards for its complete renovation of a Bay Street home on Alameda's Gold Coastline.
The project, completed in 2010, also won a first-place award for historical maintenance of a residence. The company also won a merit award in the category of residential secret renovation costing more than $100,000 for a Piedmont home.
The late John Wilkins started the firm in 1950 near the Oakland-Berkeley line, where its office and showroom remains today at 6624 Telegraph Ave. The solid didn't start out as a specialist in historic preservation but fell into it as every now went on.
Source: Alameda Times-Star