The New York Times has finally recognized our plight.
A surprising number of people shared similar tales of sitting down with an architect and planning a project over months, then finding out, once the drawings were done, that the bids were way out of whack with what they could afford.
Oh really? You think we’re part of […]
You might wonder, are we the kind of people who are impossible to deal with in restaurants or other retail situations. After all, we’ve fired two architects already and we haven’t even broke ground.
But we really aren’t. We’re nice people. Honestly.
Our first try at the architectural profession was Robb. We refer to him as Robubub. […]
We’ve fired Architect #2.
We were initially happier with him than with Architect #1, but as things progressed, we realized we still weren’t really being listened to. We still weren’t entirely happy with the plans. And we weren’t happy with the information we’d received from his references and his lackadaisical attitude toward design.
We’re working with someone […]
We had a meeting today with an interior designer who was highly recommended by a very trustworthy acquaintance.
The meeting was fantastic. We sat down at the kitchen table with the plans and she pointed out and fixed all of the things that the architect had not quite got right. They weren’t major structural changes, just […]
It all seemed to good to be true. Everything running smoothly along. Until I discovered that I know, from a mutual kids’ activity, one of our architect’s former clients. And I had to go and email her.
It’s time to have a sit-down with the architect and hear his side of the story. The sad story […]
