Renovation Design

I regret to say that we had a very disappointing and frustrating experience with Elizabeth. She makes a good impression initially, but that certainly changed when—after six months and thousands of dollars of expenditures for a small project—we ended up having gotten virtually no value from having hired her. She is extremely disorganized and inefficient and her ideas were impractical and betrayed a fundamental lack of knowledge of construction and ignorance of vendors and options for materials. I would say anyone who wants to work with her should agree on a binding estimate ahead of time because she regards projects as a blank check to research things at $160 that as a professional she should already know! She never asks the client to authorize large expenditures of time—you will know only when you get the bill and see all the padding (our small project included 9 hours of “reviewing emails”—mainly emails from us complaining about the quality of the work!) She is clearly counting on working with wealthy clientele who don’t look too closely at their bills. Clients who complain about the padded bills are threatened with legal action (putting clients in the situation where they have to decide if it’s really worth the expenditure of time to take the bills to court). She is not chagrined by her lack of knowledge—the feeling we got was that she believes that the longer the project takes, the fatter the bill and the better it is for her. I had to hire another designer to redo some of her work and I brought multiple designers to the house, all of whom expressed astonishment that the job had been done by a professional because it didn’t fulfill any of the aesthetic criteria we had agreed upon at the outset. I note she has some positive reviews so perhaps she has some areas of competence, but our project certainly didn't draw on them and she was not honest at the outset about her expertise when we hired her.

I hired Renovation Design for my kitchen remodel. In the end, they also helped with my bathroom and living room, suggesting new fixtures for the bathroom and new pillows for the living room. I am entirely satisfied with their work. Elizabeth Nordlinger, the head designer, had great taste and was very knowledgeable about local suppliers. She worked amicably with my contractor, which helped make the whole process go more smoothly. And best of all, at least for me, she wasn't too aggressive in pushing her own design aesthetic. She offered suggestions, but was willing to work with my vision for the remodel. In the end, she helped me realize what I was trying to achieve. What more can you ask? Working with Elizabeth and her team was an entirely positive experience, which is saying something for a kitchen remodel. I would recommend her with the utmost enthusiasm.

Elizabeth is such a pleasure to work with on a daily basis -- funny, easy going, positive and professional -- and her ideas are uniquely her own. She's not sterile in her approach and our home interior reflects a unique take with our style that only Elizabeth's Renovation Design team could create. It's as though she lives in every home she creates because each one is a personal endeavor, each one her child.

We remodeled our entire home, working closely with Elizabeth at Renovation Design -- kitchen, bathrooms, fireplace, tile work, windows, hardware, fixtures, color choices (inside and outside). Working with her was the best part of our project. She's very experienced and provided thoughtful and extremely helpful recommendations, as well as needed advice/support when we encountered problems with our contractors and subcontractors. We are completely (100%) happy with all of her recommendations. The results of her work are beautiful. Projects like ours can also be very stressful for homeowners and most of all we appreciate the friendship, concern and guidance that Elizabeth provided.

Elizabeth and her team have worked with me on and off for the last few years. She is wonderful in picking fabrics and colors and is very cost conscious and thoughtful. I love EVERYTHING she has done to my house. I am not the best at making decisions and she has been very patient with me and not tried to push me into anything she thinks I am not completely sold on. She is also extremely efficient and is good at keeping a job on track and making sure items arrive in a timely manner. Mostly, however, she is an absolute pleasure to work with. I did not know her before I hired her and now consider her to be a dear friend. I recommend her without reservation.

Elizabeth was a pleasure to work with. She kept our budget in mind and didn't push for the most expensive option - often working with pieces we already had. Her professional recommendations, like her upholsterer and art framer, were excellent too.

Elizabeth Nordlinger, owner of Renovation Design worked on a major house remodel for us an did an amazing job!!! Attentive, creative, thoughtful and detail oriented only begins to describe her talents! I would not work with anyone else moving forward!