Sarah has been amazing to work with. She came into our lives after our kitchen, living room, dining…read moreroom, and bathroom were flooded from a leak. I didn't know where to start, this was so unexpected. My husband knew her from her yoga studio and he suggested we call her to get some color and design advice. She came in, listened to our needs and started to create. She helped with wall, cabinet colors, flooring, bathroom design, lighting, decor and stain options (God help me, I hate stain!). Sarah helped me make some big decisions and gave me the confidence I needed to move forward with the remodel. She has been there for me throughout the entire project, checking in on how things are going. She is very professional, creative, nice, and just a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Sarah for any design projects, big or small, she will undoubtedly create a beautiful space!

I'm constantly amazed at the spaces that Sarah designs. She has impeccable taste, a great eye for…read moredetail, and is dedicated to providing the best customer service possible. I highly recommend Kindle + Stone!

Sonia has great taste and eyes and stayed flexible for our moving closing target. She delivered…read morebeautiful furnishings and accented just right for the space. Highly recommend Sonia and her great service!

Sonia is incredible!! She staged our home perfectly and instantly bumped up the value of our home…read morejust through the furniture and decor. Her aesthetic fit in perfectly with our home and really highlighted the areas we wanted to show off to buyers. If you're on the fence about staging, I highly recommend that you work with Sonia to do your staging - it is worth every penny!

These guys are great! Had them out to do a bathroom remodel. They communicated very well with the…read moredesign of my project, and they are very knowledgeable, clean and professional workers. I would highly recommend them for your remodel or new construction.

We were connected to KDI by our interior designers to complete some renovations to our home. We…read morewere so impressed by the quality of the work KDI's team did. They communicated clearly about scheduling and got everything done when they said they would. No chasing them around, no problems with work quality, and their entire team was highly skilled and professional. We are so excited to work with them again on future phases of our home renovation!

John and his team are kind, caring, diligent, and generous people. I hired HomeSmith to do a…read morehandful of projects in a house I recently purchased, one of which was to re-imagine a 1970s fireplace. I showed John a picture of one he did before, told him I liked redwood, and he was off to the races. In just a few short days, my dilapidated 1970s fireplace was a brand new marble wonder with a custom redwood mantle and much safer for my kids. When I had a problem with a window in my kitchen, John was on the scene and took care of it before I could even get to my house to worry about it. That next week, I had a huge, upgraded window in my office overlooking the hills. John cares deeply about his clients, takes care of your home as if it were his own, and charges a fair and reasonable price for his work. He communicates with you regularly so you feel informed, empowered, and cared about. He answers questions quickly and honestly, giving you the benefit of his many years as a general contractor. Doing business with him is like working with a friend or neighbor. I highly recommend John and HomeSmith and can't wait to work with him on other projects at my home.

From start to finish, John and his crew, did an excellent job of designing and executing the two…read moreprojects he did for us. Always on time and ready to work. I had come up with a preliminary plan for our outdoor stairs and patio projectss and he pretty much took it from there and ran with it. He was always pleasant, helpful and professional throughout the time it took to complete the projects. He completed the work, as proposed, and within the time allowed. He dealt with issues by coming up with solid solutions, keeping in mind to consider our budget. I would highly recommend HomeSmith for consideration when planning your next home project.

Dina and her crew did a great job installing my new vanity and mirror, they were very professional…read moreand completed my project in one day. What was supposed to be a 2 day job was done in 1 day, everything was perfect, I love the end result.

Really bad experience - lack of experience, professionalism and unethical…read more My project consisted of a remodel of a 2 bedroom condo, involving complete replacement of floors, removal of popcorn ceiling, kitchen remodel and conversion of a walk in closet into a 3/4 bathroom. I decided to work with Dina after screening 3 interior designers recommended by Home Advisor, including Dina. The reason I chose to go with her because of her and her contractor's enthusiasm with the project. She also explained she had 10 years of experience, and had a degree in technical design (similar credentials as the other designers I screened). Her hourly pricing was similar to them, although she was the only one that charged me $250 for in home consultation, where as the other ones were free. I cannot recommend Dina, and had an awful experience. My main issues with Dina are below, and my recommendation for anyone that works for her would be to closely avoid that she make the same mistakes with you that she did with me. I learned a very hard way, after suffering serious delays with the project, having items incomplete, and after speaking with multiple attorneys, contractors, real interior designers, the California Certification for Interior Design and the Contractors State License Board: 1. Not a licensed interior designer. The license number posted on Houzz.com is not an interior designer's license. 2. No set up of contracts - this is really bad, because contractors or anyone else she subcontracts can put a lien on your property, if they feel money is owed to them. She has no liability even though she brings her subcontractors and she forces you to pay them through her. This is acting as a general contractor, for which she does not have a license either. 3. Very unclear invoices, and gets defensive if you ask questions. Her response to me was typically "I can't remember now, but if I charged it, it's because I did it". I also overpaid her, and she didn't acknowledge my notifications of this, and even showed up with a "partner" at my home telling me I owed her money for things that I had already paid for. She's also very secretive about her pricing. 4. She doesn't want you to talk to her subcontractors. She told me that I shouldn't even say good morning to them, and that all should go through her. 5. She really doesn't watch for your budget. I had to follow closely with her on things because she would say "it's a little bit more" and when I'd press for how much more and hard numbers, it was usually about $500-$1000 more. 6. Zero project management -she ended up telling me to set up the list of pending things to be done at my home, and I ended up having to set up Gantt charts to get time commitments from her contractors.. 7. No commitment on her end: she literally told me at 5:45 pm the night before I was supposed to move back in that I couldn't move back in... What was I supposed to do with movers and storage? I ended up having to move half my things and live out of a room. 8. She has no permit experience, therefore, saying she does remodels is not accurate. She began a demolition in my home without a permit, leaving me to live with a hole in my foundation, dirt dug out, and pipes exposed. She kept thinking the delay was on the City, but it was really her permits guy that was too busy with his own projects and wouldn't commit to mine. 9. She hails to have "her people" or contacts in the business... Her windows vendor person for me was a vendor she picked up from googling, and I ended up having to hear the guy's 2 hour sales pitch while she went inside my home to work. Mind you, she had me pay her hours during this. The guy ended up quoting something outrageous, after which she said "oh now I understand why in my other project the contractors quoted as much...". 11. 12. She posts pictures and videos of your project without your consent. I feel very uncomfortable having pictures and videos of my home that everyone can see. I requested she remove them using Facebook, as a comment, but she did not remove them.

Absolutely Excellent and Professional Skilled Woodworking Tradesmen…read more.. True Value and Quality

Excellent work done on a dresser I wanted to have changed from its original antic brown to a grey…read more I received pics in between, so I could see what was underneath the veneer and to be assured that the work was moving forward. I learned a lot about wood, because Logan loves his work and likes to explain his do's and don't while working on a project. Outside of simply friendly and professional service, I also felt taken serious as a customer and part of the process. I absolutely adore that new look for my dresser, and have already given Logan another piece to work on.

Carlos and his team did an incredible job on my space! They did a commercial remodel for me at my…read morebusiness, and I can't say enough great things. They remodeled my floors, demo'd some walls, did a full paint job, hardwired & installed new lighting, built new walls with custom shelving inside the walls, created arched doorways, installed wallpaper on the ceilings, built & tiled a custom desk, and so much more. See photos attached! They were easy to work with and got the job done in a reasonable amount of time, considering all the hurdles we had to jump. My landlord wouldn't let us demo the floors, so Carlos came up with a creative solution of laying new flooring on top of the old so we didn't have to demo. Every obstacle that came up, the guys were able to work around it and still do all the things I wanted to do with the space. Carlos made great suggestions along the way and I felt confident trusting his judgement and took his recommendations on which flooring would look best, or paint colors, materials etc etc. I highly recommend using Mendi Custom Builders if you need any remodeling work done. I am so grateful, Carlos and his team really brought my vision to life!

I am very embarrassed that I have to write this review which could have been prevented if I did…read moremore work screening a contractor. Let me explain. I researched contractors on Yelp and found one that I wanted to hire. I clicked the button to request a consultation and Carlos called me right away. He had good sales skills and offered to come to look at my bathroom remodel project the same day. It turns out that when I submitted a request for a consultation it went to many businesses, not only the one that I was interested in. I finally realized that this was a different business. I looked at William S' review and decided to give them a chance. The business started in January 2022, yet the review that I read stated that they had two bathrooms, a gigantic kitchen, a brand new ADU unit, and 7 televisions in the course of the 3 months since the contractors license was obtained. I later found out that William S is a Mendi Builders employee and that it is a fake review. But I took the bait. I was desperate to get the bathrooms working and planned to be out of town for a week. Despite the vague and expensive proposal Carlos created, I gave him money to begin our project because of his availability and promise to work while I was out of town. In retrospect this was such a bad idea. The very first day that the team came to demo the home they forgot to cap the water underneath the vanity. They left water dripping on a Friday night and had no plans to return until Monday. Fortunately, my son came home and heard the dripping and stopped the leak and bailed out the bathroom. From that day forward every single thing that they touched was a disaster. Broken Tile: I had some special tile installed by an old friend who is no longer working that I asked him to protect. He destroyed that tile and did not alert me or attempt to repair it, instead he tried to conceal it. Plumbing: He changed a plumbing valve and left a huge glob of some sort of wax inside the pipe which was only discovered by the plumber that I had to hire to redo all of Carlos' work. In addition, they were so sloppy that they punched a hole in the wall behind the shower and into my family room. Mess Containment: Construction is always messy and Carlos promised to use plastic sheeting to contain the mess when doing drywall work. Instead of protecting my home, his team took a huge fan out of my garage and blew the construction debris into my family room and garage. This bathroom contained an exterior wall and Mendi employees started installing the drywall without adding insulation to the wall. In addition the workers made no attempt whatsoever to clean up any of their messes and left debris on my roof, throughout my home and garage, and even threw their drink containers in my garden. Their employee drove over a retaining wall and left it down in my driveway. Safety: Mendi removed two toilets there was no attempt to seal off the septic system and the home reeked of sewage. Sewage gasses are not only disgusting, they are dangerous. Mendi switched out a bedroom fan and did not clean up any of the debris. They let a bowl full of screws fall 8 feet down onto the new flooring in my son's room, which he stepped on. They also turned off all circuit breakers in the home and failed to turn all of them back on, so when I returned from my trip there was only one functioning toilet in the home, but the bathroom had no electricity for two days. When I fired Mendi I incurred many expenses and it cost me thousands of dollars to repair the damage they caused. It is hard for me to believe that Mendi was able to obtain a contractor's license. The amateur staff was unsupervised and clearly did not follow best practices of the trade. This construction company is dishonest and does shoddy work with no concern for their work product or customers.protecting my home,

Thomas Sommer is a great contractor and a genuinely fantastic human being…read more My parents spent a large portion of their savings to purchase a home in San Diego to be closer to family. Soon after they moved to their new home which was built only 3 years before they purchased it, it became clear there was a signings that construction defect on the second floor with a large leak into the ceiling which was due to incorrect installation of a sliding door. This was a known defect which had not been transparently disclosed by the prior owner. We attempted to contact the contractor who had built the home without success. After months of meeting with other contractors to get this door replaced and reinstalled, we found Sommer Construction. Thomas met with us and was incredibly empathetic - he insisted that rather than repair it himself - he would help us contact the home builder and facilitate the repair being done under warranty. When we first heard this idea, we didn't really want to go down this path because we didn't think there was any way this could work. Given the long ordeal, we simply wanted to pay for it and have it repaired without the hassle of arguing and fighting with someone (especially given that Covid was ongoing). After speaking to Tom and considering how expensive the repair was going to be, we thought why not give it a chance. Tom was convinced that this repair should be repaired under warranty by the person who built the home. It seemed to good to be true that someone would go through all of this hassle and go out of their way to help us get this done. This just speaks to the kind of person Thomas is, he tracked down the original builder and held him responsible for the repair. He then guided us through the negotiations and repairs with the original contractor - taking time out of his busy schedule all because he is a genuinely good and empathetic human being. It is so refreshing to meet someone like this and we cannot express how grateful we are to Thomas Sommer. He gives contractors a good name. If you read the other reviews you will quickly see that this is just the way that Thomas is and how he runs his company. The more we got to know Thomas we found that he is simply a man of principle first and foremost. If we ever need any project done, he is the first person we would call for sure! Cannot recommend him highly enough.

Sadly, I'm updating my review and it isn't good…read more The grout on the kitchen floor is coming out all over at a year and nine months. There's only one person in the house and with the pandemic, nobody else has been here. There isn't much traffic in that room. I contacted Thomas on 1/11/21. I asked about a warranty and explained about the grout and that the floor was creaking. He was a bit defensive - he'd done the job right - but said to call him back in a week and we'd look into it. I called again on 1/20/21 as requested; no response. I called again 1/28; no response. Ghosting your clients when there is an issue with your work is really problematic. Even if the warranty is over, it's best to find out what has happened. For this, I'm going to hire someone else to regrout and I think the problem should be solved - I've since realized the creaking is coming only where the tiles are missing grout so it should be an easy fix. That said, you should think twice about using Sommer Construction; what if the situation is bigger? And, if it is, you can always claim against his Contractors bond with the State of CA to get resolution if he ghosts you.