Sweet Home Design Co

Using Sweet Home Design Company for our bathroom remodeling and kitchen reface was a perfect match for what we needed. We had a very outdated bathroom that needed to be gutted and rebuilt from the studs up. Sweet Home Design handled it all start to finish. We are now mold free, and have replaced our pink and black (yes pink and black) ceramic tiles with gorgeous travertine. We have a walk-in 6 jet shower that makes us feel like we are at a spa (the only problem is we spend twice as long showering)! It's really the type of bathroom you would see in a magazine - we love it! We then spoke with Larry about our kitchen. Rather than telling us we needed a total "redo" and being sensitive to our finances he recommended a cabinet reface. You would never know we were previously living with a dark (think 1960's meditterean) stained oak with wrought iron hardware. Our kitchen is a honey stained Maple and looks brand new! We have solid hardwood doors that are Amish made and we paid a fraction of what we expected to spend on our kitchen. Hardwood flooring in the kitchen replaced bad linoleum tile which we also had Sweet Home extend into our entry foyer. Excellent bathroom remodelers - fantastic kitchen face-lift - expert floor laying sums up our experience with Sweet Home Design - Five Stars and then some! Pros: Expert tiling, flooring and cabinet refacing more

My girlfriend and I had a solid experience with Sweet Home Design. Responsive as can be,- beautiful kitchen design, GREAT cabinetry! The quality is five star as a company, and product line. We'll use them again without a doubt. Thanks Larry & Lizz! Kevin & Rachel W. Burr Ridge Pros: Responsive, fantastic quality cabinetry and workmanship Cons: none more

I was so happy from the start to finish with Sweet Home. I am a very picky customer and I have shopped around quite a bit. I have also talked to friends who have used other companies that they were not happy with. Either the cabinets were not what was promised or the pricing changed after the first quote. Anyway, Sweet Home Design came in and gave me the up front on pricing, what would be done and how it would be done. Larry (the owner of the company) came through on all fronts. What he said would be done was spot on. The pricing didn't change and the work was completed within a week of his promised date. (There were some serious structural issues with my house that created BIG challenges and they said they could correct them and they did). This by the way, scared other contractors off the job... (we have an older home in Naperville). We were very pleased and will recommend Larry and Sweet Home Design. Great job... great product....craftmanship Pros: did what he said, price was as promised, beautiful amish cabinetry.... more than I could have hoped for. Cons: ...... one week delay??? but our problem..... they discovered things that were problems. They fixed it and made our home more sound. more

In the beginning of June 2007 we hired Sweet Home Design and owner Larry Majewski to remodel our kitchen. Things, however, didn't turn out as nicely as we had hoped. Larry himself is not a hands-on guy, but employs an array of different people doing the various work that goes into a kitchen remodeling project. Most of the people we dealt with did not speak English, which was frustrating. The project schedule quickly started to slip. Often, we would be told that the workers would show up around 9am, but then either never showed up that day, or showed up way past noon, and would then either leave early, or stay until 8-9pm. We were also not impressed with the workmanship of some of Larry's people. Basic mistakes were made that we believe can only be from either inexperience or incompetence. After problems with the cabinets, Larry admitted that his people were not skilled enough to put up the kitchen cabinets. At this point we agreed with Larry to hire another company, experienced with that type of kitchen, to finish the kitchen cabinet installation. We still had issues with the tile floor and, probably in an attempt to cut his losses, Larry wrote up a contract dissolution agreement. It was delivered with a mention that he had several lawyers in the family and knew several judges. I chose to disregard Larry's comments and called him two days later to arrange signing of the agreement. At that point he told me that he had rescinded the agreement and now stated that he wanted to finish the kitchen, well knowing that the other company had already finished the cabinet installation. At this point we had no faith left in Larry, his promises, or his ability to actually finish the kitchen. We were now in the second half of July 2007 on a project that several contractors told us should take no more than 1-2 weeks. To this day, Larry refuses to sign his own contract dissolution agreement and has presented no new alternatives to terminate the still standing contract. more