WAI/GORNY Design, inc.

We started a remodel on our home with Alexandra. The plan was to update and sell. However, on completion of the project, I love it so much, I can not even think about selling. My kitchen is amazing, and functional! My bathroom is an en-suite that is unbelievable and comfortable! My entire main floor now is her design. It’s amazing, I don’t know if I can ever sell!

Alexandra Gorny was the designer for my kitchen remodel. My condo was built in 1978, and the kitchen was the original layout and cabinetry. Alexandra redesigned the whole kitchen, including removing a wall and adding an island. This was a very small space, and the cabinet design has made exceptionally good use of the space. The remodel opened up the space and brought much more light into the kitchen. When I changed the style of cabinetry half way through the design period, Alexandra worked with me to incorporate the new vision. As I had never been involved in a remodel before, I was grateful for her help and advice. She made the project as stress-free as possible and was fantastic to work with.

Alexandra Gorny did an AMAZING job on an entire home remodel for me (some of the photos on this website are of my home) and that is why I have just rehired her to help me remodel my new condo. She listens to you - how you live, the things you need to make your space work, and then incorporates those ideas along with her expert eye for design, space utilization and special features that turned my last home into "functional art." I am confident she will do the same thing for my new tiny home!

We worked with WAI/Gorny Design for our kitchen remodel. The specific questions and requests from Sascha showed me that she knew how to design a kitchen. She had me measure my plates to ensure they would fit in the cabinet and think through where I wanted my prep station to ensure the right kitchen necessities and cabinets were in the right places. She also pushed the boundaries of what we thought we liked and helped us re-imagine our kitchen. We have been living in the kitchen for a year and it is the envy of all of our friends. It is honestly perfect and we owe it all to Sascha and her expertise. Sascha was always conscious of our budget and delivered everything on time. She worked closely with our cabinetmaker to ensure he understood the vision. She also threw in color consultation for our cabinets for free and I love them! She is amazing and fun to work with. We hope she can help us when we remodel our basement.

I only have good things to say about Alexandra Gorny as an architect, and as a person. She balances pragmatism and beauty very effectively. I enjoyed the fact that she was willing to listen and respond to our needs. We were quite involved with the design decisions during our remodel and she was very patient and willing to listen. We really like Alexandra's design sense, which is why we chose to work with her in the first place. We lived in one of the craftsman houses she remodeled, and she also remodeled our house (a mid-century modern). Alexandra is very reliable, trustworthy and she has a network of partners who are reliable as well. I highly recommend Alexandra and her firm WAI/Gorny Design.

Sasha designed an attic remodel for us, and the results are shaping up to be stunning. Our formerly empty and useless attic is now a master suite with wonderful lines that mimic the roof in our 1931 Tudor. Sasha also proved to be extremely flexible, reworking her drawings to include a bay window when we realized we had a view from that section of the house. The builders were also impressed. They'd never had an architect draw in each joist and rafter with so much precision.

We have worked with Wai/GorrnyDesign on several renovations and restoration projects of our 1917 Craftsman house. Over the last several years, those projects have included: the addition of a front porch on the house, a kitchen remodel with pantry, fireplace brickwork and mantel restoration and the renovation of our sun room (which is now my absolute favorite room in the house!). We have the highest regard for Wai/Gorny's work—both in terms of design and of knowledge about houses from this era. Our relationship with Alexandra from Wai/Gorny has been a real three-way partnership--between us, the contractor and her. She definitely has opinions and perspectives to offer based on her expertise, but she always listens to our needs and desires, and is committed to finding the best designs after factoring in our input. She is very approachable and willing to meet with us anytime we've requested getting together. Best of all, she has a great sense of humor and has been a lot of fun to work with! Alexandra has also been an excellent advocate for us with the city and the permitting process related to one of our projects. When there were questions from the City, she promptly and thoroughly addressed their information needs. We have just embarked on another project with Wai/Gorny--this time a bathroom remodel and some updates to several bedrooms. She's loaned us personal copies of her books and provided web resources and links where we could get ideas. As you can tell, we keep coming back to Wai/Gorny for all of our remodeling and renovation projects because of the quality of her ideas, designs, and ability to work with our contractors and subcontractors.