All I can say is WOW!! What a completely wonderful experience we just had with Budget Blinds! My…read morehusband and I had been by their store front on Transit Road several times and finally stopped. The woman there was very helpful and had someone contact us right away. From the start it was simple and a breeze. Sheila came to the house with several books and lots of samples. We picked out a couple different styles of shades and colors. Sheila measured and wrote the estimate. I was a little worried as I wasn't sure of the cost I was VERY happy of how reasonable everything was INCLUDING installation. The blinds arrived in about 5 weeks. A gentleman arrived on time and very polite and just really nice! He unpacked the blinds installed everything without a hitch and was gone within a couple of hours. He packed up all the wrappings and took our old blinds with him. If I could give more than 5 stars I would. It was an excellent experience from start to finish.

They do a great job. I had nine windows done, including three in the kitchen where we put in…read more wooden blinds. The blinds that I picked are of decent quality. They cost between $300-$500 each installed. Over the last several years, I've been a do it yourselfer and bought blinds from Lowe's. Those blinds are not even close to the same quality as what I got from Budget Blinds. It is amazing how much money you could spend on blinds. While it took a while to receive the blinds, the installation was done professionally, and efficiently. Even though, one blind was cut too wide, Kyle [rep] came back and promised to replace it at no charge with the correct size. [I will update my review as soon as the replacement blind is installed]. Please note, I was also referred to a store in North Buffalo/Kenmore. I called them on the phone. They weren't very nice, and I wrote them off. I happened to be driving past the store one day, and so I stopped in and spoke to someone and actually provided the measurements of my windows. I explained to the back office person who was covering for the two sales people who are at the show house, that I wanted to get another estimate. They never called me back! In the store, all the blinds that I was shown were very expensive. High-quality, But 2-4 times the price on average, of what I spent with Budget Blinds. Call Kyle. She was great.

Accents does excellent work and Maryanne is wonderful to work with. The attention to detail,…read moreexperience, professionalism and casual/friendly approach was extremely refreshing! A much better experience than hiring a larger company where they don't seem to have my best interest at heart.

From the owner: Accent On Windows has been serving the window treatment needs of the Western new York area since…read more1997. We offer a variety of products including blinds, shades, draperies, valances and Roman shades for residential and commercial customers. We specialize in a variety of operating systems including cordless and motorized. An experienced designer will visit you in the comfort of your home or office with sample books, hand samples, pictures and a variety of products to choose from. The service is offered at no charge. We specialize in providing quality products, knowledgeable and experienced staff and outstanding service. All pricing is discounted and installation is included

We have been using Creative Window Designs since moving to Amherst 7 years ago. Not only have then…read morebeen helpful in recommending products that fit our needs, but taking care of challenges and problems. We continue to use them for everything related to windows and home fabric needs.

Went there thinking we would find plantation shutters and were very surprised at how small and…read moreunprofessional a company they were with very little selection of what we needed. Were greeted by a young woman, who seemed to be baby sitting her child as well as showing what they had available. They sent a older male rep. to our home who was clueless - very confused, re. what we were looking for (open top & bottom & split in the middle plantation shutters). He proceeded to make up an estimate sheet which we received by mail later (via mail), and still the estimate was confused. The official owner/salesman must have thought our sale wasn't worth his time (not big enough of a sale) to bother to come out himself, and instead sent this older man, instead. I have to say, I felt sorry for this older man as I thought he should have been retired. So, we wasted a good portion of our time we could have used on some other impt. project. We went elsewhere to get what we needed.

Extremely satisfied with the work they performed to repair a torn seat bolster on a 2004 Corvette…read morefor my business. They were easy to work with, got the car in their shop in just a few days, and got it back to me with 24 hours. The quality was great, and Rick even went above and beyond to reinforce it so the same tear wouldn't happen again due to a plastic piece inside the seat. I went to another shop first who said it was impossible to fix it, and the only option was a complete new cover for $800- for less than a quarter of that I've got it taken care of. I would recommend taking your auto upholstery needs here.

I sent Upholstery Unlimited photos of the two pieces of furniture that I wanted to have recovered…read more They called back with an estimate of the cost of labor and the amount of fabric needed. That all sounded reasonable to me. We made an appointment for me to come in and pick out fabric. They have lots to choose from. As I narrowed down what I was looking for the sales lady helping me called to get prices - the fabric I liked the best was $92/yard. I needed 18 yards for the large piece so the cost of the fabric alone would have been $1700 plus cost of labor at least $1400 = $3100. I was also told if I found fabric at a lesser cost they would charge me a $15/yard cutting fee to use fabric I didn't purchase from them. That all sounded fishy to me. Bottom line I was able to source the SAME fabric from another fabric store in Lockport for !/2 the price these robbers were going to charge me. That store also gave the name of a few upholsters that they recommended - one which I hired to do the work. So now labor is cheaper, estimated less fabric, purchased a different fabric that I like better at the Lockport store at an even better price and this guy will not charge a cutting fee. I am getting the work done for almost 1/2 of what these theives at Upholsters Unlimited wanted to charge me. DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH THESE PEOPLE UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET RIPPED OFF. Shop around you will be happy you did.

We've had our window blind broken cord repaired a few times here and they are prompt and very…read moreprofessional. How are the cost of that repair has steadily increased to almost $40 just to replace the cord! Next time it would be cheaper to replace the blind than repair it!

Traveling trough town in our RV, our largest blind broke. It is an accordion style blind and we…read morewere sure the strings had broken and that it needed restringing. We needed a quick repair as we were not planning on being in town more than 2 days. Called Sonic Blinds and explained our problem. They agreed to try and repair it if we could get it in quickly. We dropped it off and told them what we thought it needed. They quoted us a price that seemed quite fair., even at more than $100. When we went back to pick it up they explained that their tech had checked it thoroughly and that the wall mount that holds blind strings in RVs had failed. While they didn't carry the RV part,the tech took the time to "make" a replacement mount so we could be on our way. We were already thrilled with their service and honesty, but then they refused any payment from us, as the blind was not really broken. Just wish we didn't live clear across the US and could make them our go to people for blinds. You can feel really safe using them!

Kohler is the best in the business. I've had a beautiful awning over my front door due to full sun…read morealmost all day for almost 12 years and the color has not faded (brown with cream trim around the bottom) it lasted even our bad winters. I delt with the manager and I can't say enough as to how pleased I am. Do yourself a favor and check them out.

They made my awning and handle the take down and install every year. Very reliable and polite.read more

Ed and RCG did a terrific job on my windows. He took care to consult with me carefully about what I…read moreneeded. I got a great price on the windows. He kept me informed of when the windows were coming in. The installation was painless and his crew took care to make a few modifications to get my existing blinds to work with the new windows. Ed walked through afterward to make sure everything was done correctly and I was satisfied with the job. Excellent work!

If you want cheap windows, and don't care about professionalism, these are your guys. Our windows…read morewere difficult to take out so I'll give them that, but we had to ask 3 different times for their crew not to wear their dirty shoes on our carpet and tile? And they still didn't respect it? Totally unacceptable. The owner of the company basically told us they rush the big jobs so they can get to to other jobs that day and come back to finish the work at ours. ruined a few windows and brand new door while installing and ruined walls, told us the painters can take care of it. We didn't even have painters lined up.. totally disappointed by the professionalism and quality. But like I said, they were way cheaper than going with other companies. So you get what you pay for

Going on my third year here. First 2 years were great! Beautiful townhomes, brand new,…read moremaintenance was great. This year.......forget it. Snow plowing and salting is pretty much nonexistent. If you don't have a truck or SUV, forget getting to work in the morning. And I am not even talking about your driveway, which you have to plow or shovel out yourself since it takes them forever to get to them. I am talking about your STREET!!! Streets are not plowed at all overnight and they don't start plowing until after 6am in the morning. And it is a slowwwwww process. I have an SUV and got stuck on my street this morning at 6am. No one plowed our streets all night. Got to the main road and it was fine. Extremely frustrating to pay $1600+/month and are told that plowing is not included and it is a courtesy that the company provides......even though town plows cannot come onto the property because it is privately owned. So if the property doesn't plow.....you are pretty much out of luck getting out. Beautiful townhomes, awful in the winter.

I've been contemplating whether or not to write a review about my experience with Pleasant Meadow…read moreTownhomes and decided it might be worth a read to those coming from out-of-town -- or needing to decide on a home sooner than later. *I will preface by saying my review is based on my interactions (mainly email) with associates who work at Pleasant Meadows and not as a renter.* After living in the Oklahoma City area for two years, my husband and I -- along with our two tots -- are moving back to the east coast, specifically, the Buffalo area. He recently was offered a job in the area that has our family moving much sooner than expected ... like, within a couple of weeks. Because of the urgency of needing a place to say, and because we've never lived in western New York (we were closer to NYC in the past), I frantically began searching for the best places to live that would be close to his job. I stumbled upon Pleasant Meadows and moved it to the top of my list as they have town homes you can rent. Not knowing the area and having to reintroduce ourselves to snow meant we did not want to rent a personal home and have things go south. When I first inquired about a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom town home, I was told by the associate none were currently available. I later inquired about their 2 bedroom/2 bathroom ranch homes and much to my surprise, heard there was one that is under construction and would be available around our desired move-in date. It was around these first emails that it was explained to us that a deposit would be needed to hold unit (a small portion of which is non-refundable) with the bulk being applied to the unit once we move in. The next sentence stated that people with a certain credit score would not be required to submit a security deposit. It was finally explained to us after a few emails and receiving the renter specs that the initial deposit is actually an application fee. We were asked to overnight a check for the application fee and submit our application to lease the unit, but thankfully, I was able to convince the associate to allow us to have our bank issue a check that would take a few business days. (I don't know when the last time was that I wrote a check as we operate electronically.) Things were pretty smooth over the course of the week that we worked with the associate. We turned in the application, proof of income, copies of driver's licenses and whatever else they required. Once we started looking at the lease, there were one or two line items that were interesting -- including a mention about needing to have blinds hung within a few days of moving, otherwise PM would purchase and install at our expense? (It's been a while since I lived in complex run by a property management company, but I thought this is included??) During that same time, a place we were originally looking at in Williamsville had a few 3 bedroom town homes open up with a special that priced them close to Pleasant Meadows. Comparing the extra space we would get -- including a basement -- and having continuous hardwood floors on the entire main level, versus the carpeted areas at PM, we decided to pull the trigger on the unit in Williamsville. Within a couple day's time, I sent an email to the associate working with us thanking her for her help and informing her that we would be moving forward with another company. That was six days ago (and counting). Today I received a call from a lady who I think might be the property manager asking whether or not we would be ready to move in soon. I'm not sure if our associate passed along the email I sent (that's been the only communication we've had), but she wasn't informed of the decision we made last week. When I inquired about the money for the hold, she let me know that all of it is no longer refundable. What irks me about this whole situation is not that the a line item mentioned this bit of info towards the bottom of the application, but that it was not mentioned in any emails with Pleasant Meadows or the renter specs. I also don't think alluding to the fact that I "sounded desperate to get a place," is quite professional -- especially when I never dealt with the female associate on the phone before. Because if I did, she might know that we were moving to the area from the middle of the country and only have a few week's time to decide on a place we'll never see until we get there. So yeah, I was trying to move and make decisions sooner than later, and I guess if that means I sound "desperate" in her eyes, so be it. At the end of the day, we lost out on a couple hundred dollars -- which the lady on the phone mentioned "wouldn't go very far here anyway" -- but it is what it is. I'm sure local residents wouldn't have issues like this because they can make decisions in person and likely wouldn't be on a time crunch to move a four bedroom home halfway across the country. So in line with Yelp's three-star description, my experience was OK.