Wendy Wilson & Associates

The design team took the time to understand the challenges with our current space and provided thoughtful solutions to transform our home.

Wendy Wilson was a pleasure to work with in the design and re-model of our 30 year old kitchen. She gave us several designs to choose from after hearing our wants & needs, developed plans that were ready for permitting and the contractor had high praise for her attention to detail and her skills not only in design but in understanding the contractors role also. Wendy has excellent design sensibilities and is confident in her choices and vision but is also open to the clients feedback and input and partnered in the vision for the design of the remodel. Wendy was always available to answer questions and give clear design ideas and feedback. She was pro-active and engaged in every step of the project. She has a strong sense for color and the overall palette of the finishes, fixtures and details. Wendy is unique as a designer as her design sensibilities and skills are excellent but she also creates finished plans ready for permitting for the contractor. The Contractor had high praise for Wendy's skills and sensibilities as well. We highly recommend Wendy Wilson & Associates for your home design needs. (Attached are the Before & After photos in that order)

Wendy Wilson is a gifted designer and project manager. Our current project, the second time we have worked with Wendy, involves changing the layout of our older home in South Pasadena. Wendy listens to our ideas and concerns (even as these have changed during design) and provides valuable counsel based on her deep experience, insight, and the goals we have discussed together. With Wendy's help, we have arrived at the right plan which will greatly improve our use of the home, and we look forward starting the approval and building phases soon. It is a great pleasure to work with a professional as organized, efficient, responsive, and gracious as Wendy. We are sure you'll agree and very pleased to recommend Wendy highly.

Working with Wendy Wilson has been an excellent experience. She provided very detailed plans and partners very well with my contractor and sub contractors. She listens to my ideas even the bad ones and then explains the pros and cons to make the right decision. I would hire Wendy again and also refer to my friends.

Working with Wendy for our full bathroom remodel has been wonderfully easy and enjoyable! We have an older home (1920s) and needed a designer with a nuanced eye and appreciation of our desire to have the room reflect the era in which the house was built but with modern upgrades. Her design was spot-on. We also relied on her for contractor recommendations, which were A+++. She's closely worked with the one we selected (her #1 choice) to keep our project on track and on budget. I know she will bring us into conversations with the contractors and subs if/when needed, and I trust her judgment and commitment to our project. It's been a blessing to have a professional manage this process for us, and I'm grateful to be working with her! We hope to continue working with her for other projects and upgrades we have planned for our home.

We are working with Wendy on updating and expanding our mid-century ranch home. She has been a true partner in developing our ideas. Wendy is extremely knowledgeable and detailed in her work, as well as very responsive. We feel Wendy would be a huge asset to any project, and look forward to continuing to work with her.

Wendy Wilson was highly recommended by our realtor's contractor. She is a true professional, very knowledgeable in her field, and able to offer expert guidance on every aspect of a project, from local zoning regulations to overall aesthetics. We're very grateful for her advice.

In December of 2020 my neighbor referred me to Wendy Wilson after my first kitchen designer abandoned our project leaving us with nothing more than useless plans that the City of Pasadena had denied. Wendy met with us, re-did the plans and got us thru the permitting process and construction. We are now 90% complete on the kitchen remodel for our 1922 Spanish Revival home in Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena. Wendy's direction and foresight are priceless! She brings with her years of experience with the city's planning department, inspectors and historical design review. Her input and experience on everything from paint and grout colors to pro and cons of different design elements have proven invaluable. We didn't realize how much we didn't know about kitchen remodeling until Wendy took over and explained to us what would and would not work in our galley style kitchen. I'm so happy with the process she guided us through and her attention to detail with our contractor, Alfred Navarro, has made this project painless for us which is why we just contracted with her for a bathroom and closet addition to our home in 2022 ! Stay tuned for Kitchen reveal pics !

Wendy has been helping us with a 500 sqft addition. We haven't begun construction yet, but she has made the process so smooth and painless so far. We had several rounds of back and forth with her on the specifics of the design. She was very efficient and responsive - and her input and suggestions were meaningful and helped us push forward in a productive fashion. Plans were approved by the city and we didn't have to do anything but sit and wait - she took care of it all. She has also worked with us to select finishes and fixtures (she has a great eye and so much wonderful experience to draw on). Also, she's just a lovely person. We have a number of other projects we wish to complete in the next few years and Wendy will be our first stop for each of these.

We had a wonderful, positive experience working with Wendy on our master bathroom makeover. First of all, she is meticulous, organized, and reliable. She helped us choose all the fixtures, lighting and tile work, all keeping with the flow of our 1908 house. Second, Wendy has an eye and talent for creating a space that is not only beautiful, but functional and practical. She was very patient and listened to our wish list, and how we wanted the bathroom to look. The end result is now my “happy place” and private sanctuary. We highly recommend Wendy Wilson for your next design project.

Wendy has been a fantastic help is bringing our home dreams to life. She's professional and helps keep the job moving along. She has an eye for detail and we have really enjoyed working with her over the past year from design conception through construction. We highly recommend her!

Wendy designed the remodel of three bathrooms and the laundry-storage room in our South Pasadena Craftsman. We wanted a contemporary look, but one that was sensitive to the original style of the house and we are so very happy with the results. Every time we use the updated spaces, we appreciate how beautifully they turned out and are thankful for Wendy's work to make that happen. We were a little unsure about how our remodel would work during COVID, but Wendy made that aspect astonishingly easy. From scheduling outdoor or zoom meetings, to ensuring we were in the loop on safety protocols at showrooms, and checking in about timelines - Wendy made completing a remodel during an uncertain time both doable and comfortable. Overall, we can't speak highly enough of our experience with Wendy and wouldn't hesitate to recommend her services. In fact, we go out of our way to suggest her name to anyone we meet who needs work done on their home. Wendy's everything you'd want in a design professional - patient, organized, punctual, detail-oriented, great relationships and referrals, impeccable sense of style, and keen insight into choices that matched our home / vision. We appreciated Wendy's design work so much that we jumped at the chance to have her stay on and provide construction observation services. We're so glad we did - everything ran impressively smoothly, and she noticed details (big and small) that we never would have caught. Also, on a personal level, it was a pleasure to spend more time with such a warm, thoughtful, and conscientious person. It's a little difficult to wrap this review up; there were so many good things about working with Wendy. We're really hoping we might have occasion to work with her again!

We moved into our 100 year old Craftsman a few years ago and loved the bathrooms that were renovated by the previous owner so when we decided to do a more extensive renovation and were looking for the right designer, we found Wendy's name in the permit. We went from a one-story 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath to a two-story 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath and wanted to make sure that the Craftsman elements were honored with a modern twist. By the time we found Wendy, we already had our house designed by another architect so engaged Wendy for the interior design. She was an excellent collaborator who understood our needs, was very hands on in helping us choose materials and came on site to work with our tradesmen and to check on progress. While the initial scope included the kitchen, family room entertainment center and bathrooms, we engaged her to help design our in-law kitchenette and stair rails that lead from our French doors of the family room and in-law suite to the outside. Her experience and sound advice was invaluable throughout the renovation that took well over a year. Outside of her expertise, Wendy is just a lovely person to work with -- patient, calm, respectful and fun. We are finally in our new home and enjoying all the great design that went into it.

We purchased a vintage 1950s era ranch in Pasadena with a vague vision of what we wanted it to look like after renovating it. Living in Pennsylvania, we needed to find someone to take our ideas, transform them into a concrete plan and help us manage the construction work from afar. After a detailed search of designers and architects in the Pasadena area, we chose Wendy based on her experience with mid century homes, her outstanding reviews and her general portfolio. We absolutely made the right choice. She helped us transform a completely outdated house into our dream home that has all of the up-to-date amenities we need with the mid century modern vibe we were hoping to achieve. From designing a floor plan, to obtaining the necessary permits, to helping us choose a contractor, to selecting details such cabinets, tile, and even the front door bell, Wendy was with us every step of the way. Managing an extensive project like this from 3000 miles away seemed like a daunting task, but Wendy helped make it a fairly smooth and easy process. She's made us fans for life. We're looking forward to post-Covid when we can invite Wendy, our contractor Alfred Navarro, our real estate agent Heather Lillard and everyone involved in our project to our home warming party.

Wendy is wonderful, and I would highly recommend her to anyone who is planning a home construction project. My husband I wanted to do an addition to our craftsman, and needed a realistic estimate of how much it would cost from someone who had experience with historic homes. Wendy impressed us during our first meeting with her down-to-earth attitude and extensive knowledge regarding historic homes and the permitting issues that come along with them. Her thoughtful guidance helped us better plan for what we could actually afford to do vs. what friends, family, and the internet had convinced us of, and she helped shepherd us through the entire process. We loved the designs she did for our house, she helped us review and analyze the estimates we received from different contractors, and she consulted with the contractor we chose all the way through the end of construction. Her experience and honest input helped make the whole process extremely manageable, and we couldn't be happier with the finished product.

I purchased a house that was in need of a total remoldel. It wa Biot in 1928 but had great “bones”. I searched for an architect through friends and colleagues. I found Wenhdy Wilson through Houzz. Wendy is a professional l, knowledgeable and understands the rules and regulations of the city’s building laws. She guided and explained many details to me. I would highly recommend Ms. Wendy Wilson. I will call upon her on my future projects.

My husband and I are lucky to have found Wendy to help us with our bathroom remodel. We wanted a design in keeping with the architecture of our Craftsman home but incorporating some personal and perhaps offbeat touches. Despite our being both fussy and vague (and changeable) about what we wanted, we felt Wendy got on our wavelength at the outset. She's patient and flexible, and she listens. She never imposed her ideas but rather suggested options, pointing out where our ideas were impractical or unworkable and guiding us to a better solution. We absolutely trust her aesthetic sensibility, and we feel she has respected ours. Wendy also knows vendors, materials, the latest products, building requirements. A complete professional, she works quickly and communicates promptly. Our bathroom design is not quite finished, but we are excited about how it has shaped up. It has been an excellent collaborative process, and we cannot recommend Wendy more highly.

We are on our third project with Wendy, which fact alone shows how satisfied we are with her services. We've found her to be detail-oriented and a pleasure to work with. She has ideas about what works and what doesn't, but is able to explain why and always makes sense.

Wendy has been great to work with! The design she created for my kitchen/bathrooms and living room remodel have been great, designed to work for me. I don't have much time to shop and have asked her to identify choices of products (lights, plumbing fixtures, etc.) and her taste has been spot on every time. She makes it very easy for me to look at and make choices online. She's also available and highly responsive as issues come up with contractors or new challenges to solve and is very professional. I highly recommend her!

Wendy Wilson is the gem of a person you hope to find when you begin your search for architecture/home design professionals. We are in the midst of a $500K+ project on a single family residence, and Wendy has been with us since the get go. Within minutes of meeting her, we knew a few very important things - she is genuine, she cares deeply about the clients' vision, and she knows exactly what she is doing. If you are considering a project of your own and do not give Wendy a ring, you are missing out on a unique opportunity to meet with a consummate professional and a lovely human being. We recently had the pleasure of connecting Wendy with friends of ours, and we will continue to jump up and down at the chance to refer her to anyone we meet who may need her services. We've also warned her more than once, that when it's all said and done, she is stuck with us. Dinners, barbecues, drinks by the pool...she's invited to all of it from here on out :) Please do yourself the favor of making her acquaintance. You will be so, so happy you did.

Wendy was introduced to me by the owner of Grueter Construction as the design professional on a renovation of a 1940's constructed home in Altadena CA. As a project manager for this remodel, I enjoy Wendy's ability to synthesis the clients vision with a her own unique design intent through her disciplined drawing and conversational knowledge of construction methods. Wendy has always keep the progression of the project on track and delightfully taken it to the next level. It has been a pleasure working with Wendy and we look forward to future design experiences with her as part of our group.

I have actually had the privilege to work with Wendy on several projects. It is a real honor to work with such a true professional. Wendy is not only extremely talented at what she does, but she approaches each project with a great attention to detail. She is able to immediately resolve any unforeseen issues that may arise, which makes my job so much easier and more efficient. If only I could work with more colleagues like Wendy.

I have known Wendy for going on 20 years. She is a true professional in every sense of the word. She is very skilled in her field and it is evident that she cares deeply for both her clients and the outcome of their projects. Her attention to detail and her knowledge of both construction and historical renovations is impressive. We have worked professionally with Wendy off and on over the years so I say this with confidence. You will be in very good hands when you hire Wendy for your next renovation project.

love working with Wendy. Her style is so organic and peaceful. She is very easy to work with and is always professional. We have been working with her for many years and look forward to many years to come.

It has been so easy working with Wendy. She is responsive to emails and phone calls and moves the project along in a timely way. Wendy is thoughtful about considering our decorative tastes and our lifestyle when drawing up plans and making suggestions. She has worked with our varying abilities to be involved, stepping in to take on a bulk of the work when we needed it, but backing off just enough when we've wanted to be more involved. Wendy has connections with many local vendors so you really receive top notch treatment when you walk into their shops. We'd highly recommend Wendy Wilson & Associates to our own friends and family.

Wendy has great vision and listens to her clients to articulate their taste into beautiful style. She helped our nonprofit redo a kitchen and restrooms on a very tight budget, repurposing and refinishing what was possible and replacing what was necessary to get the most bang for our buck. I was so impressed, a couple years later we used her color consulting services to help inform our flooring, upholstery, and paint selection. The end result is spectacular! I highly recommend her services.

We had Wendy over to discuss plans for a home remodel. Although we ultimately decided to delay remodeling for financial reasons, Wendy was very thorough and thoughtful in her house visit. She was very intune to the structure and design of our house and had significant experience working in Sierra Madre (both with the city and contractors in the area). Once we save up a bit more and are ready for a larger remodel, we will certainly be reaching out to Wendy again.

As a registered civil engineer I have worked with Wendy for over seven years., on numerous projects. she is a dedicated professional. She executes a set of complete and detailed drawings. She has a charming personality, easy to work with, and very helpful to her clients.

I have known Wendy Wilson for several years and finally had an opportunity to hire her two years ago for several renovation projects on my 1947 mid-century-modern home. Simply put, I have truly been delighted with every single thing she has designed for me. As soon as escrow closed, Wendy was working on the selection of new bamboo flooring throughout, creating a new hearth for the fireplace, re-configuring the kitchen as well as opening access to create a better flow between the living spaces. Once those major projects were completed she then moved on to creating a coordinated color scheme for both the interior and exterior painting. (I have to admit that watching her at work selecting colors is a little like watching a master painter.) Her coordination of colors, shades and hues is impressive; with the end result being a house that beautifully reflects its heritage and location within an oak woodland landscape. I'm also a do-it-yourself-er and Wendy designed the perfect workshop for all my home improvement projects, including a beautiful wood fence for the adjacent carport. I continue to call on Wendy for my ongoing renovations and she has developed plans for a future studio space and additional bathroom. I highly recommend Wendy for her personal attention to all the details, her creative talents and her professionalism.

Thrilled is the only way to describe my remodeling experience with Wendy Wilson. My new kitchen/TV Room has every modern amenity and at the same time fits beautifully into my 1927 house. Throughout the process, Wendy’s anticipation kept things moving right along. At all times, she directed my thoughts and tastes into an overall vision. She considered things – like bringing the kitchen counters up flush to the bottom of the windows – that I would never have thought of. She guided me through the stone counter purchase and layout with foresight and patience. There is not one thing I would change in my remodel. I will be hiring Wendy Wilson for all of my future projects.

We have built several Wendy Wilson projects and have always had excellent experiences. Wendy is articulate with her plans and has expert attention to detail. Her designs are well thought out and clear. Wendy has a talent for reconfiguring spaces. Her communication is always quick and thorough and her dedication to overseeing all design aspects throughout the project makes for a smooth construction process for both the General Contractor and the homeowner. We have recommended Wendy Wilson & Associates to many clients and will continue to do so.

Wendy Wilson created the plans for our art studio, a freestanding building in the back of our property. It had special requirements as it will be used by a glass artist whose work requires torches, kilns, and large tanks of oxygen and propane. Her design placed the oxygen and propane tanks outside the building, as we requested, with tubes from the tanks going to the inside of the studio via ports through the walls. It includes a bathroom with a utility sink. The building is about the size of a two-car garage. Besides the built-in utility features for the artist, it is also beautiful. Exposed beams run across an open ceiling and a line of high windows let in ambient light and provides a beautiful of the San Gabriel Mountains. It is everything we had hoped for and more. She took our ideas and created the plans to make them happen. She was also an excellent liaison with local planning officials and our progress through city requirements went off without a hitch. I highly recommend this architect. She has the knowledge, competence and vision to make your building dreams come true!

We hired Wendy to do drawings for a proposed workshop that would meld with the existing home. The project was particularly challenging for many reasons. Firstly, it was a hillside build on a considerable slope and would be visible from the street. Wendy in her many trips to the city in trying to secure permits for the build needed to juggle the technical demands of the structure while making sure aesthetically it was in keeping with the architectural lines of the main house. The resulting design accomplished all the functional and style attributes we had hoped for. Wendy is very knowledgable about period details, an excellent listener and easy to work with.

Wendy drew plans for our house's total remodel/rebuild. Her plans made our 1800 square foot, 5 bedroom, 3 bath home, into a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with a large great room. The plans included raising the ceiling in the great room and master bedroom from 8 to 9 feet. She also drew plans for a patio cover and a "yoga shack." It took a year to get the design worked out, the engineering completed, the conditional use permit, and the plans submitted and approved by the city. Wendy checked with the city every time we came up with a new idea to see if it was doable. She was with us the whole way. We put a bid out to 4 contractors. Each one was impressed with her plans. Our project is ongoing. We liked Wendy so much we are utilizing her services to coordinate the rebuild with our contractor. We meet with Wendy and our contractor. Every week to go over the specifics of the project. We will use her as a designer on decorating the house. If we ever do another project (God forbid) we will call Wendy.

Wendy designed our master suite, kitchen and poolhouse as part of a total remodel/renovation. She was a pleasure to work with - attentive to our needs, highly knowledgeable, detail-oriented and with a great eye. She helped us tackle issues that as remodel novices we wouldn't have necessarily given any thought to and designed rooms that work very well for our lifestyle and most importantly, look great!

In 2014, Wendy designed renovations to our garage, a small hobby room, patio with trellis, a new driveway, and walkways for both the back and front yards. The design was excellent and completely reflected our needs. We also hired Wendy to help monitor the construction project which was of enormous benefit due to issues with the contractor and a couple of his subs. She caught things we would have missed and helped us successfully navigate the most difficult and uncomfortable issues. Wendy really knows her "stuff": she is entirely up-to-date on building codes and materials and consistently suggested green friendly approaches. Since we live in a Pasadena Landmark District, her knowledge and prior experience with City of Pasadena regulations and processes was essential to our project's success. She is straightforward and completely approachable. We highly recommend her and would hire her again. PS: We did hire her again in 2017 for a remodel and make more accessible our original 1926 bathroom! Wendy came up with an excellent way to use the limited space, including a clever cubby in which to store the shower chair. Her eye for color is excellent - she helped us choose a great palette for interior paint. She helped us chose bathroom tile, designed a great arrangement for office furniture using stock IKEA pieces and helped us chose a great stain for our new oak floors.

Wendy is fantastic, and well worth the cost of hiring her (and I'm on the frugal side). She has an eye for detail and avoids problems through meticulous preparation. She listened to our ideas and asked the right questions to elicit information that allowed her to create plans that we loved. We have recommended her to all of our friends who are considering a remodel. Note the the cost below is for Wendy's service, not for the remodel of our bedroom/bathroom that she designed.

We discovered Wendy Wilson through Angie's List and hired her to remodel and update several outdoor areas of our 40+ year old home, including front atrium, rear patio and spa area. She listened to our ideas, provided us with information to make informed decisions, and designed detailed plans. She is gifted with excellent interpersonal skills, a trait not always possessed by people in her field. Wendy was professional, punctual, thorough, and courteous. Her assistance through permit (HOA and city) and planning stages was invaluable. Wendy remained very responsive with regard to scheduling aspects of the work and finalizing decisions about the details. Communication was excellent, and regular email updates were clear and explicit, even when everything was going according to plan. Wendy stressed that the goal was to create spaces that we would enjoy, even if that meant changing our minds about details. All of her work was exemplary, completed on time, and within the original contract amount. We highly recommend her services and would employ Wendy again.

Our house is a 1911 Bungalow in the craftsman style, built by a member of one of California's oldest families with direct ties to the Verdugo's. Unfortunately most of the original features of the house were removed/ destroyed in the course of a remodel approx. 50 years ago. We acquired the house about 7 years ago and have been in a process of restoring and recreating features likely to have been original to a house of this style and vintage. The house is roughly 2000sf with an "unfinished" but enormous 800 sf basement. We initially engaged Wendy Wilson to design a plan to convert the basement to livable, permitted space. We were (and are) so pleased with the design work and our great working relationship with Ms. Wilson that we again engaged her services for the design of a bathroom remodel. Starting with the basement project, Ms. Wilson visited our house, took detailed measurements of the lot, house, and space to be remodeled. We discussed our ideas for the space, how we wished to use the basement for various activities, ie, laundry area, home office space, storage, craft and play areas, and the possible addition of a half bathroom. We met several times, to refine the design, as well as to address structural and code issues regarding the remodel. Ms. Wilson delivered an extremely practical plan for the remodel that satisfies all building code requirements and incorporating all the features we desired, remaining extremely sensitive to the period/look/style of the house. She contracted all the necessary engineering reports, Title 24 issues, and relevant Building and Safety departments in course of the development of the plan. She delivered to us approved building plans that we now have out to Contractors for bids. I should add here that Ms. Wilson very creatively solved some major issues from a technical perspective that could have otherwise made the project un-permitable. Additionally, she designed a great looking, updated (existing) bathroom remodel that once again, is sensitive to the vintage period of the house, contemporary in its function, and beautiful in its design. This project is also out to contractors for bids at this time. Wendy Wilson and Associates have our highest recommendation.

We had WWA review/modify architectural drawings we had done for a new Master Suite including a bedroom, bathroom, and closet. We worked directly with Wendy Wilson on this project. In addition, WWA helped us with the layout of the bathroom and closet and led the charge on helping us select all materials for the interior work. Materials included all tile and slab selection, bath fixture selection, carpeting, cabinetry, lighting, fans etc. We have absolutely nothing but great things to say about Wendy and the way the project turned out. She was super patient as we went through many iterations of tile and slab selection -- she listened well to what we liked and sensed when we didn't like something and adjusted. We love the end product. She did a fabulous job of laying out the bathroom just the way we wanted, came up with some very creative design elements in the closet, helped us redesign the ceilings of the bedroom/bathroom, and created some really special tile designs for the bathroom. Wendy was a superb bridge between us and our contractor. The project cost below was just the WWA fees -- the overall project on the contractor side was much larger in scope. WE WOULD HIRE WWA AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT!!

After interviewing architects, it was clear Wendy was the one for us. Her presentation was focused on us, not her portfolio of projects. We hired Wendy for two tasks. the first was on overall design theme for our house and property with an eye to expansion and the second was complete design of construction docs for a pool house conversion. The first task started with an assessment of the existing structures, code review for set-backs, max allowable space, etc. It included several design layouts for a kitchen expansion & remodel. It also included a full master bath remodel layout and main bath refresh. She created drawings we used to get preliminary estimates from contractors. The second, greater task was to design the conversion of workshop on our garage into a pool house, which included a full bath. She create plans for permit approval, demo, construction and site layouts. Included pool deck and retaining wall designs. She brought on a structural engineer and coordinated the design. After being assured by the city plan checker that we should plan for 2-3 revisions, we were very pleased when the drawings were accepted on the first submission! We supervised the construction ourselves (which in hindsight I advise against!!) but Wendy was always available to clarify the drawings or codes. She eagerly helped us pick out floor and shower tile and finish colors. When we hired an architect, we expected the service described above. What pleased us is she actually delivered to our expectations. More importantly, she listened to our goals and turned our random and often conflicting thoughts into concepts. (I often thought she would make a great marriage counselor!) She delivered on all promises, on time. We highly recommend her.

Wendy Wilson did the design of my major home remodel that included the removal of a load-bearing wall, a room addition, and extensive remodeling of existing spaces. She listened to my ideas, added her design expertise, and developed the plans. She was a pleasure to work with, always focusing on what was important to me and what was consistent with the quality I was looking for. Her design ideas were fantastic for my project. She helped me interview contractors, and each one we talked to praised the completeness and quality of her drawings. She ushered the project through the design approval process with the city, so all I had to do was go pay for the building permits. She assisted me in the oversight of all phases of the construction. I'd hire her again in a minute, and highly recommend her services. I now truly love my home for the first time since we bought it in 1974.