Kimberly was so fantastic to work with! I had a few, large storage spaces that were completely…read morefull. She worked through them to sell, donate, and/or organize the space. She was an excellent communicator. She completed the project faster than I thought it could be done, and the spaces look great!

My husband and I chose Nicolette because we were looking for a clean European style for our new…read morehome. Coming from Germany ourselves and Nicolette being from the Netherlands, we knew that she would understand what we were looking for. Nicolette is a master in guiding you through the design process. She would come up with ideas, colors and arrangements that I would never dreamt of (e.g. I would not have dared to pick a blue-grey color for two accent walls, but they turned out perfectly). At the same time she listens carefully and incorporates the clients ideas. She made mood boards for us, so we could see and compare beforehand what our fireplace would look like. All designs were made to scale, which made it easy to read and understand. The result is an interior design that truly reflects our style, just way better than if we would have done it without her. With the help of Nicolette we have turned the new house into our stunningly beautiful home. Thank you so much Nicolette!

I hired Nicolette when I finally got tired of the messy home office syndrome. She was fantastic!…read moreShe started to envision solutions right away. I didn't know what to do with all my paperwork and business stuff. Now, I have implemented her design and when I had her come back to help me organize the stuff into their places that are logical for me and my business, she made it look so easy. She is remarkably left brain (logical) and right brained (creative) and I am remarkably happy! Thank you Nicolette!

Alex was fantastic to work with and extremely efficient finishing early!! She unpacked several…read morerooms in my new home including the kitchen all on her own. I am downsizing and brought more things than necessary. She was not bothered by this and jumped right in . Just what you need in the middle of a stressful move! I will gladly hire her again.

I am not usually one to leave reviews but I felt inspired to share my amazing experience with Alex…read more Her personality is exactly what I needed to help get our new home de-cluttered, organized and most of all stylish! I have been stuck in my ways for years and having her input and guidance made our home feel like an actual home. We just sit in our living room at times and admire what has come together!! Thank you Alex for your professionalism and transforming our home

Christy is highly skilled at getting to exactly what you want, even if you present her with a…read moremarked lack of direction. She is in touch with what sells in innumerable industries, and blends her professional knowledge with an understanding of you as a person and the intent of your business. She provides her signature clean look while offering a surprising array of concepts. Christy is an excellent communicator during the process, and clearly invested in getting everything just right. The result was increased traffic to my page, within hours of uploading the brand visuals she created for me. I am very pleased to hand out my new business cards, too.

Christy did a magnificent job designing our wedding invitations! We had a complicated request; we…read morefound an arts and crafts pairing online, but the image wasn't the best quality, and we wanted that layered on top of a painting that I had made, along with art nouveau font and border on the inside of the invitation. I wanted the invitation to look like a song-book cover from the early 1900s. She cleaned up the image I sent her, made my painting fit perfectly, and made the inside look beautiful as well. Additionally she put all the elements together for our wedding Thank You cards which turned out lovely as well! I got compliments from everyone about the invitations! All communication with Christy was clear, concise, professional, and timely. I highly recommend her for any and all graphic art

These are the second set of signs we have ordered from Natalie. The first ones were so good, we had…read moreto do a follow up order. Natalie is easy to work with, she is creative, thoughtful, timely and looks good in teal. Look her up on Facebook for her other work. She is a rockstar!!

Natalie's creative & talented. An absolute pleasure to work with, she seeks to understand what…read moreyou're looking for and does a stellar job. She's the best!

Who knows framing ? Exactly ! But I know now, Liza ! I needed something special for a client and…read morecame up with some Chihuly prints that I knew they would love. But as we know with many meaningful pictures, paintings, memorabilia, its unfinished until we are able give its proper attention and place. To make a long story hopefully shorter, I learned alot about the proper care and techniques needed to make them last, but most importantly I and was able to lean on Liza's creativity to make these prints standout. I was able to handover to my clients a gallery quality piece which perfectly fits the room it was intended for. Since I know a good thing when I see it, I followed up with a couple of items that have tremendous meaning to my wife that had been sitting around the house. Needless to say I was a hit, again :) Beautifully done with her one of a kind flair. Thank you so much !

I am extremely disappointed with their design, which caused us significant frustration and added…read moreexpense. I would not recommend this firm to anyone. They specified 7' interior and exterior doors, which must be special-ordered and cost nearly three times more than standard 6'8" doors. By the time this issue was identified, the house was already framed. We requested that the contractor lower the door openings from 7' to 6'8", which required additional materials and labor. In construction, any change order means redoing completed work, resulting in unnecessary additional costs. The bathroom windows are also oversized for the rooms. No privacy. Additionally, the drawings were inconsistent across the three bathrooms. In two bathrooms, the toilets were correctly centered at 18", but in the third bathroom the toilet was centered at only 15", even though there was sufficient space for 18". The plumber had to move the toilet 3", which again resulted in added expense.

This review doesn't exist for any reason other than to let others know of our life-altering…read moreexperience from trusting AIRD with our home; a fact-based caveat emptor of sorts. An outcome of trusting AIRD is delayed retirement to fund remediation of design/construction defects so our 1000sf house can function w/o long-term structural, water & other damage. AIRD's reviews & ratings on this site as well other sites are compromised by reviews made by employees of the general contractor she collaborated with). (Rebuttal to Jan2023 reply: Alexandra Immel did not fully cover costs related to one of her firm's erroneous omissions. We were still stuck w a $3K balance for one subcontractors. We paid for/endured delays due to her employee's other omissions. Wasting $3K+, extra months of double rent/mortgage, do-over construction materials & labor is a tiny expense relative to our total cost of remediating issues that originate AIRD's design (& omissions), as well as trusting the contractor Alexandra so wholeheartedly recommended for executing AIRD's plans. The client should never need to research City construction energy code when they're paying professional designers. But I was forced to. Like most people, I *want* to give good reviews, want to believe that when several hundred thousands of dollars is being borrowed & spent, it's spent it wisely. In reality, some people will allow emotions to positively bias their reality of such a huge investment, their reviews, enable excuse-making for individuals they find personally amiable, overlook the aspects that were professionally lacking. Unlike them, for this project, I invested time & money not to make a new "friend" to forgive, but to have a home with better space & small 250sf addition for a better quality of life. The cure is almost always worse than doing things right w the right people from the start. We had/hv no choice but to remediate ASAP. The time to minimize risk of preventable rot (of materials Alexandra insisted on), leaks & other defects is upon discovery of such design defects, not 5-10 years down the road which is when they would have shown up in the form of compromised structural integrity (final product & plans were evaluated by several design/construction pros). There's no space for "positivity bias" in this case no matter how much benefit of the doubt I wanted to extend. When a project involves moving out/in, (14mos of gas guzzling time-suck commuting is more than adequate for adding 250sf & a bathroom), mortgage $, it's critical staff hv adequate skill, knowledge & attn to structural/enviro detail, be *up-to-date* on critical skills/issues involved (appropriate materials, enviro impact, bldg & energy codes). Also essential is a genuine leader of a team who also truly values the time & financial resources of their client. AIRD fell short in all these respects. I'll never forget the comment spoken out loud at an early zoom meeting where Alexandra Immel literally said, in her own words w/ a smile, "money is cheap" (interest rates were lower; conversation is on record). The standard *looking* design plans AIRD produced were so lacking in detail, especially at critical structural junctures that the builder Alexandra recommended could not to execute her firm's designs, w/o trial & error & multiple do-overs, as if they were learning on the job & lacked the experience Alexandra Immel claimed they had. They'll naturally blame each other but absent legal action, the client is stuck w/ the total cost. Cascades of decisions are based on upstream decisions & good data, visual renderings. In our case they were asked for & promised at the start. But were never delivered in a timely manner PRIOR to critical decision points. A logical *looking* workflow on paper from a designer means nothing w this frequency of omissions (incl on plans signed off by the then lone registered architect in the firm at that time & caught by the city inspector). Any builder is dependent not just on designers' plans, but also knowledge of & respect for city code, as well as time-tested experience. Per WA records for just the last 7 yrs, the builders so heartily, *gushingly* recommended by Alexandra Immel had numerous safety violations & violations involving unlicensed (in our case, also incompetent) workers. Per state court records the builders also have 16 cases listed, between the state SUPREME, Appellate courts plus superior courts of at least two counties. When I checked with the state, spoke with Olympia, Immel's own registration attempt as an architect stalled out over two decades ago. Which would be fine had she kept up with the ever-evolving field of residential design (sub 4000sf builds don't require registered architects). I wasn't looking for inspiration, just competency, honesty. What I got was, & is still to this moment, a nightmare of a mess to tediously undo & clean up at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, robbing us of years of quality of life.

Betty has helped us produce a newsletter for our Blacksmithing organization. She has taken us from…read morea frumpy looking high school yearbook class production to a clean easy-reading publication that showcases our member's work. Prompt and easy to work with.