Simonson Design Studios

I do not recommend wasting your time or money with Simonson Design - it was a horrible & frustrating experience. Their racket is to overdesigned a plan so they can charge for revisions. They did not create a plan for us with our project goals & budget in mind. They were very unprofessional, unresponsive with communication & untimely with meetings and the final plans. They overcharged us and would not provide a credit. Even after they took our money, they did not provide the correct plans to us for over two weeks. I can't believe they are allowed to conduct business in the manner. I would give them zero stars if I could.

We worked with Kimberly and Alex on the design of our Texoma lake home. I am very happy with their ability to take our concepts and translate them to design. Very happy with their newest addition, Alex. Very competent, personal and professional. I particularly appreciate their ability to work with our selected builder, Ceci Bates Custom Home. Very happy to recommend them.

UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNETHICAL Kim sold us on her ability to work together with the builder to keep us in budget yet after 3 months of design and 5 months to get a bid back we were 60% over budget. She then claimed that the lumber price increases were to blame but that is not the case here. 60% over budget was a direct failure on her part to not live up to what she promised in working together with the builder. She did not work with the builder whatsoever or we would have been much closer. At no point in time were we told that we were trending to be over budget much less 60% over. That would be a total redesign and does resemble the house that we spent so much time designing. I am not sure why we were strung along with something we could not afford as the builder admitted to knowing it was well out of our price range as well when we received the bid set. If they would have worked with the builder as they said they did they would have suggested a redesign or directed us as they said and we felt comfortable with them help us through it. It doesn't make sense or add up I cannot explain why they would provide such bad service and not do what they said they would do. Everything sounded good at first but the end result is a set of plans we cannot use with a lot of wasted time and money as we have to reinvest in a competent designer to handle the our project that we gave to them in detail and our budget and quick timeframe was a strong factor. The plans we received were good looking and detailed but the square footage breakdown legend is not easy to read as they contract with foreign Architects. We were regularly delayed a week because the builder we were working with "pulled them off of our project to work on something else." That is not a work fuzzy feeling being told that your project is less important and to regularly receive delays. I know of another clients of theirs that have experienced similar delays because they did not check with he county to determine the size of house they could build on their lot--which is step one in the design process so they have wasted time with designing something too big for the lot and are redesigning. Just an overall really bad experience and a huge waste of time and money.

Kim and Roberth were fantastic in assisting our family to create our dream lake home! The design process was easy and fluid. I would highly recommend using them for any project!

Kimberly and Roberth were wonderful to deal with. They took our vision and brought it to life. It's amazing the tools they have available to show you what your home will look like before it is even built. Yes, my husband and I highly recommend Simonson Design Studios to design your home. You can not go wrong with Kimberly and her team. We are fortunate enough to also be connected to her brother Pete who will be handling the building of our home. These have been the nicest and knowledge people we have come across. Thank you guys! Wendy and Charles Percle

Working with the team at Simonson Design Studios is a fantastic experience. They are timely, professional and fun! Kimberly and Peter have put together a very talented team, highly recommend them.