Two cleaners came today for a deep clean of my townhome. I have been behind for months on keeping…read moreup with my house but they whipped it into shape with a very thorough 3-hr cleaning. I'm so grateful for their hard work to get me back on my feet! The cleaners were very efficient, detailed, and kind! I'm setting up monthly cleanings to maintain the home. Thank you!!

My home sold in 12 days - I had two offers from the first two buyers that came through. BUT we have…read morea Cape Cod with bedrooms that are awkward and small closets (or NO closets). It was essential to have furniture in these rooms so people could imagine how they would live. Additionally, we went $25,000 over market price (we were asking $375,000 when other homes were selling for $350,000) because we felt the CV-19 market conditions and low interest rates were favorable. Having a fully staged home helped us get our price! I'm certain that without the staging, we would not be sold at our price. First, our designer met us in the home while we were still remodeling it. She took notes and pictures and could imagine how it would look, even though we were only 50% finished. A week later when we were finished, a truck arrived with several people to "move in". The entire crew was professional and used health safety precautions. They were finished in 6 hours -- imagine if YOU tried to do that on your own!! Everything was sparkling and clean, shiny and perfect. Everyone says WOW when they walk in. They were great to work with and I will use them again if I have to sell another home. https://www.mrmhomedesign.com/1927-westchester

One of my friends who is an expert in home staging in California told me about MRM. So I called…read morethem and I was surprised by how friendly and acomodating they are, especially given my crazy work schedule. They were not only very fast and affordable, but most importantly the quality of their work was much higher than any other company I had spoken with before. So given that I couldn't sell my house within the past 2 months, as soon as I got it all pretty and staged with beautiful furniture, I was able to sell my house within 10 days and even higher than the price that I originally imagined I could sell. I highly recommend them!

If you want to get a round around, hire Casey. if you want excuses, hire Casey. There is great…read morechance your job will be incomplete and your deposit missing. Hinsdale please don't get fooled by a "nice guy". Looks like I am not the only victim he has preyed upon from reading the new reviews. I have called and texted but believe my number has been blocked as I can use other phone numbers to leave messages. I hope we can work this through before upcoming litigation is started. $5500 is a lot of money to be ignored.

Southtown Interiors (Hinsdale, IL) vice president was very accommodating until he received my full…read morepre-payment for materials and installation of window treatments and vinyl wallcovering. After receiving the full payment amount, he requested two additional payments for portions of the same project for which he claimed he "forgot" to charge for in his original/undetailed quote. Again, payments were issued to them even though my post payments cost comparison with other similar vendors indicated Southtown Interiors substantially overcharged me. A month later, he delivered wallcovering material and attempted to install some but the quality of the install was so bad, we had him and his installer stop work. He blamed the wallcovering material as defective and has since indicated he filed a claim with the wallcovering manufacturer for material replacement. Since then, no further work has been completed by Southtown Interiors in spite of my repeated inquiries over the past couple of months that only result in new new excuses for endless delays in issuing appropriate refunds as requested, delivering/installing window treatments, etc. In summary, Southtown Interiors took my money and I received almost nothing in return aside from a multi-months long runaround so now I am intending to file a lawsuit against them to get my money back.

I recently had to reorder a couple of parts for a commercial door we installed. Jonathon was very…read morepolite and caring and took care of me to meet my needs. No problems.

Jason and the team at Awesome Design/Awesome Plumbing have been doing my home remodel and repairs…read morefor 10 years. From a kitchen redux, to bathroom freshen ups to sewers, to basement walls, they have done it all. Awesome is like family, now redoing my daughters cabinets with an Awesome upgrade. Honest, sincere and ethical, all you can ask for!!!

Today I received a horrible (and recorded for future use) voicemail threatening to sue me for…read moreputting a Yelp review. It is unbelievable that this company would do such a thing and threaten to sue us on a review. Completely unprofessional and we will report the threat to our attorney - complete with his voicemail.

I have worked with Nicole several times over the last few years. Nicole designed my daughter's room…read morefrom start to finish. I met with her a few times in the months before my daughter was due and she helped me craft a vision for her room. Then she worked with my husband and surprised me one weekend when we were out of town. He had given her a key and she completely transformed the room. It was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. A few months later we worked with Nicole to transform our formal dining room into a multi-purpose diningroom/playroom (gotta get creative in city living). She also updated our kitchen for us and changed our mudroom from a dumping zone into an organized, functional and modern extension of our home. Nicole has great taste, but doesn't just design your home in her taste. She really cares and takes the time to get to know your likes and personal style. She then polishes it and creates something that is you, yet better. Best of all, she finds the most amazing deals. She knows where money should be spent and where you can get away with spending less. She has an ability to make things feel custom without the custom price tag. I look forward to working with Nicole again soon.

Every time I walked into the family room in our new home I had a near panic attack. None of our…read morefurniture worked in the space and I had zero idea where to start with a new design. When I suggested calling a designer, I could just hear the instant regret in my husband's voice when he agreed to it. We couldn't have made a better decision. While I could list 100 things I loved about the experience, I'll give you the top 5: - Nicole listens. Too often you hear stories of designers who impose their preferences on a client and pay little heed to the client's desires. I never felt that way with Nicole. She solicited our input throughout the process and regularly checked in with not just me, but my husband as well, so both of our design preferences were reflected in the final product. - Her designs are timeless. The colors, pieces and flow of the room look amazing now and will continue to look good years down the road. - She's professional, but fun. As stressed as I was about the process, she made me feel at complete ease and made the selection process a lot of fun. She explained to me why certain pieces would or wouldn't work, so I felt like I also received a little education and became [slightly] more knowledgeable about the rules of design. - My husband loves the final product. I didn't think it was possible that he would be delighted with anything that didn't include a wall-sized poster of Walter Payton, but he has repeatedly told me how much he likes the space now. - We want more. We'll be having Nicole back to do our bedroom next.

We had a great experience working with Lofton Landscaping. Carolyn was wonderful to work with. She…read moreanswered all of our questions, took her time going over our patio plans, and even let us use some of their pavers to help finalize the design. The crew was great. They were professional, efficient, and the patio turned out exactly how we wanted it. The finished space has a clean, polished look, and they kept the price right where we needed it. We couldn't be happier with the results. Highly recommend!

Hired them to move existing brick pavers back 18", plant some new plants and trees, and install new…read moresod. The contract was broken up into 3 charges, for moving pavers, the sod, plants. At first things seemed okay. We discussed specifics. The previous landscaper put in pavers with no edging, I wanted it, C. Lofton said she could do it. Charge for moving pavers included removing old edging (there was none, moving pavers and replacing on crushed gravel, they did that, and putting mulch in newly created space. That last wasn't done. Final part of charge indicated total bed edging. 3 men showed up, machine removed 18" of sod, loaded sod on truck. C Lofton left soon after arrival and never returned. 2 men began digging a new trench to put in the gravel. After loading the sod they only had enough gravel to lay about 8 feet of brick. The driver left to get gravel, and the edging, which they didn't originally bring. So they had no material and no supervision. They dug out the new trench, took dirt out to the truck, which puzzled me as it was needed to fill the newly created space, and brushed dirt off the bricks while waiting for the driver. He was gone around 3 hours. When he returned, after 11am, the main work actually began. Soon, I noticed the bricks were very above the grass level. I told the man, he agreed, he flipped about a dozen off, removed some gravel and relaid them. He proceeded all the way around the u shaped yard. Only 1 man laid all the bricks. Half way through I asked why they were removing the dirt, so they started to make a dirt pile in the yard. Nearing the end I again saw that the bricks were too high, again the man agreed, and quickly changed it. They took all day. I didn't hear from C. Lofton for several days, and when I called her she said she was still trying to understand why they took so long, as she only estimated it would take them half a day. She pressed me, wanting me to explain. I told her all of the above, and that the ground was very hard from no rain, they didn't have the material etc. She kept repeating that she could not understand why it took so long. I invited her to come over, we would look at it together and she could better undersatnd. I put back the line for the first part, showed her how high he had been putting the bricks, and her first response was "If he did that I will fire him." Then she asked me why they took dirt out to the truck, I said I didn't know, then she screamed that she didn't believe me, if they did that then where was the dirt, and I pointed to the bed. She then said "NO, we aren't going to do this",and started to leave. I reminded her that I had a $2000 deposit, and she had only done the part listed for $500, and she said she would have to figure out the hours and let me know. In actuality they had also spread grub control in anticipation of resodding and transplanted one plant, and yanked out another. C. Lofton later messaged that she charges $1200 per day for a 3 man crew, and she would be willing to negotiate and split the difference between my $500 and her $1200. I might have considered some compromise, but she took no responsibility for underbidding the job, not having the material needed, no supervision, and screaming at me and refusing in any way to consider anything I said. I declined for the above stated reasons, and requested a refund so that I could hire someone else. She said she would have to figure out the cost for the grub control etc. and let me know. My next received message from C. Lofton included a huge amount for the etc. part. Now she had imagined the bill to be $1120 for a $500 job. She listed the charges while changing the original contract language. Now adding (brick) into the edging language and leaving out the original total bed edging language, She added a cryptic charge of "Line marked by customer as top of brick line" whatever that means, for a $240 charge. I changed no line. Charged me $220 for the edging that was part of the original $500 charged, charged me again for removing the sod (that was clearly included in the $500 charge), and $180 for transplanting grasses and one plant, removing another. We discussed removing the grasses, they did not move them. They transplanted one plant, dug a tiny hole and put it in. They removed one weed size plant by pulling it out. Now they offer a $880 refund instead of the proper $1500. They went from wanting $850 in compromise, to $1120. My last offer after that was $500 for the original contract, $50 for the grub control, and $50 for moving a plant and throwing another away. The interesting part is, when the differences first came up, C. Loftons main answer was that she couldn't afford to lose money on the project. I am not responsible for her making a poorly thought out bid, not remembering what we agreed to, to having an alternate definition of what was in the contract, to her not supervising or having her men show up with the right material. She is.

After all the snow melted and a couple days of rain my roof decided to leak. I called a few roofing…read morecompanies only to get appointments by the end of the week but that was not good enough since the leak was in my bedroom and the sound of dripping water in the bucket was driving me crazy!! so I made a few more calls the following morning and lakeside roofing came out the same day went up on the roof and found the problem gave me an estimate and explained what needed to be done and told me it could be fixed in one day and at a reasonable price. the following morning I had three roofers repairing my roof they were professional and cleaned their mess after the work was done thank-you lakeside roofing I slept like a baby that night highly recommended