Craft Design America

I am happy with the results and my experience with Craft Design America. Working with Luben was easy. He is knowledgeable and experienced. We are happy to have our approved permit and plans for the next phase of our new addition to our house in Los Angeles. Thank you CDA!

Craft Design America is an amazing company to work with for your construction needs, 5/5 stars without a doubt. Professional, caring, responsive, reliable and cost effective. They handled every aspect of a complex backyard job from obtaining all the required soil and engineering reports, design, construction and permitting with the City of Los Angeles. Luben always kept me in the loop every step of the way, and handled every interaction making my life easy and much less stressful. The team at Craft Design America does all that, at the best prices you can find. The team then handled every aspect of the permitting process with the City, without me ever having to lift a finger. Dozens to hundreds of emails, phone calls, and follow-ups with plan checkers and inspectors were all handled by the team at Craft Design. Many thousands of dollars were saved by avoiding unnecessary requests for additional reports from the city by their hard work, dedication and construction knowledge. Once the permit had been approved, the team at Craft Design America continued to prove invaluable. They obtained quotes from several contractors and then brought the top 3 to meet with us. They were present at each meeting to ensure that we were all on the same page, provided us with insight into each quote and options to try to save money with each one. Ultimately, we were able to save $12000 over the next lowest offer we had independently been able to obtain ourselves. Given the results we had seen with Luben and his team, we decided to hire them on the manage the overall construction project as well, at a cost of 15% of the project cost (still resulted in a savings of $6000 over the next lowest offer), and that also turned out to be great investment. Anyone who has ever worked with contractors knows how the price always goes up after the fact, “this part costs more,” “there is extra excavation we did not anticipate,” “materials cost more,” and on and on are the excuses. But over a 4 month construction project, the price never changed, it was AMAZING. The City of Los Angeles made this project a nightmare. Luben and the team at Craft Design America made it a dream come true

What a great experience working with Craft Design America! In record time they have designed and permitted my ADU. This is my third ADU project and I am glad that I found this company. The staff is very professional and friendly. Highly recommended!

I have had the pleasure of working with Craft Design on two projects (one fully completed and in the final stages of completion). They came in to view the old buildings in person, spent time with me to go over the options, possible costs, permits required and we finally settled one full interior redo, incl. interior wall demolition/re-location and one full tear down, rebuild + add-on. My experience is nothing short of amazing. You can always hire an architect to get the drawings and be done. No - Craft Design go out of their way to work with the city to make sure all drawings are properly drawn, to the minutiae details requested by LADBS (corners you say? 2% grade basement slope from 1911? The cracked foundation, where someone sloppily dumped a ton of cement, about 50 years ago? Yeah - they handle that and the City of Los Angeles!). The only LADBS interaction I have had so far has been on-line for fee payments As architects with extensive LADBS knowledge and experience, Craft Design are irreplaceable. I can't imagine having to use anyone else, for any of my future projects.