Bach Design Studio

It was a pleasure working with Bach Design Studio on our kitchen renovation. Our kitchen was outdated , the layout was awkward and we could not envision a good solution. Magda was able to blend her contemporary inclination with the traditional decor of our 20 year old home to create a beautiful, bright, kitchen with an amazing flow. After our initial meeting Magda returned with 3 different floor plans, illustrations and suggestions that made it easy to envision the end result. She asks a lot of questions, listens well and encourages involvement to assure the final product includes your personal touches. We were very happy with the contractors she recommended. I must add that I appreciate Magda’s patience. I am sure it is much easier for an architectural designer to work with a client who gives her carte blanche rather than me who takes too much time to research and decide on appliances, counter tops, back splash, etc. Thank you Magda for our beautiful kitchen!!!!!

We bought a 1967 traditional ranch house that was dark, with low ceilings, many long halls, tiny rooms, Before we decided to pull the trigger, I brought Magda in to help us decide. Her vision was astounding: she affirmed the four sided brick had “great bones” and helped us see the light and airy Mid Century Modern Charmer it could become. She helped me interview and select the best contractor. Her vision/drawings included lifting the ceiling to the rafters, taking down the many walls for an open floor plan, removing the long central hall to free up space for a huge master, enclosing the carport for a library/office, and adding French doors and huge windows through to bring the heavily wooded backyard INSIDE. I took all her design advice but she always listened and implemented my ideas where feasible. Her drawings were impeccable and precise: she stayed involved in the project throughout and when she found that the contractor had not followed the plans, she made them correct errors. Now we have our dream house and I will always be greatfulnti Magda!

Bach Home design (Magda Bach) is an exceptionally professional and gifted designer. She worked with our 1940s condo to create a simple, tasteful and modern kitchen and dining area that still retained some of the mid-century modern touches. We incorporated most of her suggestions. We have a lot more counter and cupboard space and really like how the kitchen blends into the dining room. We love to cook and enjoy meals with friends so our new spaces are perfect.

I had an exceptional experience working with Magda. It was my first time to do a home renovation, and I was working with a very traditional one story brick home built in the early sixties. Magda established a clear vision for the space that reflected an incredible mid century style, and she was able to contextualize the work so that it blended with the existing environment. We invested more than $100,000 in the renovation, knocked out five rooms, added a new one and a garage, and much more - so it was really important to get it right. I found her very capable of creating precise designs, with accurate measurements and complex structural suggestions that were affirmed by a structural engineer. (We removed load bearing walls). She was excellent when working on implementation - she was on site regularly through the four month renovation process, she gave solid direction to the contractors who were interested in finding less design-oriented solutions to construction challenges, and she maintained an integrity of vision through out the process. She was detail oriented, incredibly professional, and a lot of fun. It was only after living in the newly created space that I fully came to appreciate a vast number of small details - like the perfect height of windows in the sunken living room to let in light and sky views, but to block the close view of neighbors. I really appreciated her ability to keep the project moving, address the questions from contractors, and give design guidance as I was selecting appliances, countertops, etc. She provided the exact blend of direction that set me on the right path and yet gave me room to create my own look. It's most unusual to find someone who has a strong, modern design vision and who is able to make that work even in the context of the older, more traditional homes that are the mainstay of Atlanta architecture. To do this with a great eye for cost savings and a firm handle on construction implementation is no small feat. I would, without a doubt, work with Magda to create anything from a small bathroom renovation to the design and build out of an entire home.

Magda provided architectural services to remodel Shallowford Shopping center in Dunwoody, GA. Overall we were very please with her creative and technical abilities to provide us a solution to facelift a dated shopping center. Since the remodel both the tenants report that their sales have gone up and clients express pleasure in visiting the shops. Thank you Bach Design Studios. Ramzy M2Z2 Com

This review is honest and I've tried my best to be respectful of Magda Bach while still making my concerns of her work clear so that others can know what to expect if they choose to hire her (which I do not recommend). Pros: Magda is a wonderful person, highly intelligent, warm, welcoming, and will stand up to contractors for her designs. She will make sure that the contractor knows that style is just as important as function. In Georgia, this is especially important since the popular style is traditional and contractors are just trying to do as little work as possible. If you are looking for a modern, somewhat Euro-Scandinavian style, Magda is on the same page. Cons: Magda was unable to provide accurate floor plans. She was unable to provide complete dimensions in those floor plans of room sizes and wall dimensions and she was unable to provide any sort of actual layout dimensions for cabinets, sinks, lights, and other fixtures. As I stated in the pros, she has great vision and style, but when it comes to actually implementing that style, she is unqualified or unable to do so. In our case, she provided a very nice initial floorplan, but she was unable to provide any sort of ACTUAL dimensions. In other words, she did none of the hard work of actually measuring out cabinet sizes, measuring and detailing where recessed lighting would actually be placed, and she was unable to provide actual products to fit those dimensions. If you have any sort of ability to visualize how you want your space to be created you DO NOT need to hire Magda. If you need help coming up with a very basic and elementary starting point then Magda might be helpful. If you are looking for a interior designer/architect who can design and actually provide accurate dimensions along with real products and real choices then Magda is certainly one to avoid. Magda's fees are also high and we would have no issue with paying $75 per hour if we were getting quality work, but her work was on the level of a undergrad design student and it does not command the hefty price that she has set. This isn't to insult Magda, but to make sure that you as a customer understand that her blueprints were so elementary, basic, vague and imprecise that most homeowners would probably be able to create a blue print of equal quality. Just be aware that YOU will be doing the leg work of measuring where you want your lights to be installed. You will have to do the actual measuring of cabinets (with the help of your contractor) to figure out how to fit them into the basic design that Magda provides. Once we realized that her work was sub-par for her rates, we expressed our dissatisfaction hoping that she would return some of our money because the quality of work was so poor. She would not budge on her invoice and was constantly asking for her payment DESPITE the fact that we arranged for her payment to come from the escrow account once the work was complete. We ended up paying her out of our personal trust to end our "professional" relationship with her and cut our losses. Needless to say, when you are forced to pay someone for bad work, it leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth. Overall, Magda is a beautiful person who has every intention of being an interior designer, however her work shows that she is unable to deliver on her lofty and beautiful ideas. If she had only taken the next steps to actually make accurate dimensions in her floor plans, found products to fit those plans, and provided detailed locations of lights, cabinets, and other fixtures this review might have been one of the best I have ever written. Unfortunately, I must recommend that you find another designer who can actually help you with your construction because even though she is such a wonderful person, in the end its the finished product that matters and she couldn't even give us a finished plan.