Mike recently remodelled my adjacent kitchen and family room spaces. The work involved new cabinets/countertops/etc, a new stone fireplace, new woodwork and other finishes.
Wood selection, cabinet quality and finish are very important to me and Mike has a great appreciation for the details in building outstanding custom cabinets. I am very pleased with the result. He also made a custom piece of furniture for me and updated all the woodwork in the room. I had some very specific ideas about what I wanted done and Mike was able to understand what I was thinking and make it happen. He was also very good at letting me know when a picture that I had in my head just wasn't possible or practical and then helped me to come up with a better solution. Mike expanded and refaced the fireplace based on a photo of something I liked. He did the stonework himself and the end result is absolutely beautiful.
There were a few scheduling delays that came up, in part due to a subcontractor that I had hired separately and in part due to other projects that Mike was also working on. These delays might have been avoided with a bigger contracting firm that could just "send someone else" for the day to keep on schedule, but I prefer the fact that I knew the individuals who were in my house, was confident in the work that they did and knew that they were fully informed of project details. I would make that trade off again in a heartbeat.
I know the cost of the project was reasonable based on some competitive bids that I received before I selected CNS Design Build. This is due to the fact that Mike handles much of the detailed work himself (cabinet customization, custom furniture piece, stonework - the high impact items) instead of passing on the additional margins required for outsourcing or subcontracting everything in order to handle a higher volume of work. That said, he subcontracted appropriate items and I was very happy with the work provided by those subcontractors, also.
