Suzan Davidson Designs

Suzan did an incredible job of putting together a personalized plan for us. She has transformed an old run down house into a beautiful, warm, and joyous home for me and my daughters. At the center of the transformation is our new kitchen which had not been remodeled since our home was built in the 1930s. We knocked out a wall and changed it from an "alleyway kitchen" into a beautiful, open concept kitchen with a large island that has quickly become the heart of our home. Suzan also came up with concepts and ideas for all the other rooms in our home. I was very impressed with how she was interviewed by my 10- and 12-year old daughters before creating the ideas for their bedrooms. They can be quite opinionated and both were so happy with how everything has turned out.

Suzan was a joy to work with durning our remodeling. Her team was always on time and professional. Suzan was easy to visit with and bounce ideas around. Her's were always better than mine and my home shows it. When friends walk in there's always a big wow. So, would we engage her again to help us make our house a home, Definitely!

My family, my business, and my church have all engaged the services of Suzan Davidson as a designer. Suzan’s work is superb and I highly recommend her. Our home renovation consisted of a top to bottom update with hand scraped floors, new furniture, wall colors, kitchen and bathrooms. The final work was published in a magazine article regarding design and was recognized as an outstanding renovation. Her work in the home was outstanding, which led us to engage her to help sort out the colors in our company’s new office spaces and find the solutions for conference room furniture and appointments. This also worked out well, and we were most pleased with her professionalism and design sense. Recently, our church undertook a design renovation that included extensive remodeling. Susan facilitated the process greatly by producing 3-D designs that could help the church membership visualize what each of the changes would look like. In addition, she exercised her superb color sense and helped us update the look of the walls and Church arches. Because of her insight, the church was able to move ahead with a modern feel that still references the underlying architecture of an older church. I give my highest recommendation personally and professionally for Suzan Davidson.

Suzan did a great job for us -- she was always accessible, problems were addressed in timely manner and always corrected, and , most importantly, I told her what my vision/style was and she incorporated it into the design. My law partner and I have very different styles and she was able to make both of us happy. We have tried and failed to work with designers before -- mainly because we get busy and put it on the back burner. I told Suzan early on she would need to nag us to stay on top of us to get the job done. So, 5 star review on "nagging" (: Mark Frenkel & Frenkel Law Firm

Suzan has got an amazing eye and depth of design know-how! The way she puts colors and fabrics together then layers in small details really adds depth to her work. She melded my somewhat crazy love of traditional, industrial and contemporary design elements into a style that is perfectly me. She also added nice touches that worked well for our family with two rowdy young boys and two large dogs. I love what she did for our family & living room remodels! I've also admired the work Suzan did for my sister and several friends. She listens to her clients and takes cues from their lifestyle to deliver somethign that feels personal and unique to each client.

We contracted Suzan Davidson Designs/Studio West Designs to do some design and remodeling work in our home in November 2014. We discussed our budget and time schedule and she agreed that she could accomplish the work within our budget and schedule. We asked for a construction contract, which she had never used, so we had to draft the contract ourselves. We included that she must work with the City for permits and approvals and gave her a firm deadline which she agreed to. After signing the contract, we discovered she had never worked with a City or dealt with permits, she didn’t attempt to stay within our budget. We ended up supervising the project ourselves, as she rarely showed up at the jobsite, and she had very little construction knowledge. We finally moved in our home over 90 days past the deadline with the house still unfinished, because we had to be out of our other residence. Suzan does not communicate with her clients or her subcontractors. She told us “yes” to everything we asked her without asking her subcontractors first, sent us incorrect and falsified information, and failed to communicate with her contractors and us during the process. We constantly had to go to the jobsite and eventually hired our own construction supervisor to answer the daily questions that occurred with the contractors since she didn’t handle this herself. She never attempted to stay within our budget nor did she care that we were over a month behind schedule. I would NEVER recommend this contractor to anyone as she has no communication skills, cannot meet a budget or deadline, nor did she care that she didn’t meet any of our expectations. We never received an apology or reason for any of the delays, because she did not have one. She is not qualified to do this type of work.