If you read no further, know this: Lisa was absolutely FABULOUS to work with. We could not recommend her more highly!
We were recent first-time homebuyers who bought a foreclosure knowing it needed some work to really shine. The more we thought about the daunting task ahead of us the longer we stalled getting started. We ended up waiting over a year before contacting Lisa, and boy do we wish we had gotten it all done sooner!
She helped in every aspect of our project, which included an entire kitchen, half bath, full bath, and pantry remodels. We had a vague idea in mind about wanting things to be fairly transitional and clean but with a little bit of sparkle and a punch of emerald green, and she took that vision and brought it to life even better than we ever expected. I still cannot believe this is the same house we bought a year and a half ago!
Lisa helped with everything from design to contractor support to the small finishing selections we would have never thought of had we tried to piece together a project on our own. She is obviously incredibly knowledgeable about her field and communicated very well with our contractors to make sure things were done right the first time. She made sure the electrician had the proper knowledge to install a particular type of under cabinet and cove lighting that he had never used before, and stayed in close communication with both our GC and foreman.
Lisa worked with us tirelessly (I am VERY particular...) to make sure we got the right pieces for our budget and style, all the way down to the kitchen pulls which I think took me longer than anything else to decide. She was patient the entire time, and has an amazing skill of taking a client's ideas and morphing them into a cohesive look.
She was also incredibly helpful in negotiating timeline and budget with a new quartz distributor after ours closed up shop and moved to Canada. I called her in tears after hearing the news the day before the counters were slated to go in, and she immediately called as many suppliers as she could find in the entire state and promptly found someone who was able to very nearly match our original quote. The exact counters I loved were installed by another vendor only a week later--the week before Christmas, even! It is clear other professionals in the business respect her, and I can't imagine how we would have possibly gotten ourselves out of that hole without her. She knows how to get things done!
Finally, she did a wonderful job of marrying my personal style with my husband's. Somehow we both feel like everything is exactly how we imagined it, even though talking about it made it seem like we were on pretty different pages. Her design work is top notch, and her ability to work the project through to completion in a timely way (and on budget!) was phenomenal.
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