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Kurt Sabbagh of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh, left, of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh, left, of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh of Big Brush Painting, is painting the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury, as allotment of ceremony of his 20th ceremony in business. Photo Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh, of Big Brush Painting, paints the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury to mark his 20th ceremony in business.
Kurt Sabbagh, of Big Brush Painting, paints the advanced doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey in Danbury to mark his 20th ceremony in business.
Kurt Sabbagh stands in advanced of the newly-painted doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey on West Artery in Danbury Monday, Oct. 9, 2017.
Kurt Sabbagh stands in advanced of the newly-painted doors of St. James Episcopal Abbey on West Artery in Danbury Monday, Oct. 9, 2017.
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New logo for Big Brush Painting, which is adulatory 20 years in business in Danbury, Conn.
New logo for Big Brush Painting, which is adulatory 20 years in business in Danbury, Conn.
Big Brush Painting marks 20 years in business
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DANBURY — Kurt Sabbagh has thrived in business for two decades because he loves accomplishing what so abounding bodies abhorrence doing: painting.
“We adulation that. We adulation that bodies abhorrence to paint,” Sabbagh, a Danbury resident, said. “We can aftereffect a big change with actual little. That’s apparently the best advantageous allotment of the accomplished affair … seeing the above changes we can accomplish — to attending at a job able-bodied done.”
Sabbagh launched Big Brush Painting in 1997. To mark 20 years in business, he gave the iconic red doors at St. James Episcopal Abbey on West Artery in city Danbury a beginning covering of paint. He has done added jobs at the abbey over the years, abounding of them gratis.
“I ample I should do article for the association to bless 20 years and those red doors are absolutely neat,” said Sabbagh, whose ancestor is a affiliate of the church.
Sabbagh is the brother of Ryan Sabbagh, a above wrestler and affiliate of the Danbury High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Ryan Sabbagh wrestled while adversity from cystic fibrosis, a lung and digestive arrangement ataxia afterwards a cure. Ryan died in 1998 and an anniversary Danbury High angry clash is called in his memory. Kurt Sabbagh participates in a cystic fibrosis airing anniversary year to account his brother.
Kurt Sabbagh has done painting jobs from Greenwich to Litchfield over the years, but a contempo job in city Danbury stands out as a milestone. Big Brush Painting did the autogenous acrylic job at the new Danbury campus of Naugatuck Valley Association College on Main Street. At added than 20,000 aboveboard feet, the job was a defining activity for his company.
“It’s a point of pride,” he said. “There’s consistently pride with any project, but this was altered because it was for Danbury.”
NVCC afresh relocated to its new campus from a abundant abate area beyond the street.
Sabbagh is appropriately adequate accomplishing abate jobs. He does autogenous and exoteric painting, as able-bodied as ability washing, accouter repair, wallpaper abatement or installation, ablaze carpentry and sheetrock adjustment and lacquer. He said he appreciates Danbury’s dejected collar roots because he was “born a alive chic kid” in the Hat City.
That alive chic accomplishments had him accomplishing application assignment with ancestors associates back he was a teenager. It didn’t booty continued for his ancestors to admit his talents.
“They didn’t like how I did annihilation else, but they admired how I painted,” Sabbagh said. “They say: ‘You’re a abhorrent roofer, but a abundant painter.’ If you advise a adolescent actuality a skill, he’ll consistently be able to use it. If annihilation else, it gives you an eye for detail.”
Sabbagh confused to Colorado as a adolescent developed and formed for a painting company. He aesthetic his abilities and abstruse the latest aerosol techniques. Afterwards a few years, he alternate to Danbury to be abutting to his ancestors and started his own painting business.
He remembers actuality acknowledged appropriate abroad because of his absorption to detail. Big Brush Painting started as a one-person operation, but Sabbagh now employs three to six people, depending on the season.
“We’re detail abundant and basic heavy. We prepare, prepare, adapt ... taping, sanding, patching, caulking,” he said. “We apperceive we can assassinate perfectly. It’s the alertness that makes all the aberration in the world. Any baby bank blemish is calmly spotted afterwards a acceptable acrylic job.”
Sabbagh said the painting industry has afflicted in the accomplished two decades in that the abstracts accept become safer, bigger and added eco-friendly. The better change, he said, is the added competition, which drives prices lower as the companies charge be cost-competitive.
“In this marketplace, you charge to be affordable,” he said. “I abhorrence that affection is actuality compromised. That’s article I’ll never do.”
To ability Big Brush Painting, alarm 203-733-0080, appointment bigbrushpaintingct.com, or email bigbrush1@comcast.net.
The biographer may be accomplished at cbosak@hearstmediact.com; 203-731-3338.
