We used Sandra for multiple projects and plan sets for our home in El Dorado county over the last two years, including an extensive and detailed addition and a separate large detached garage. With all of our plans, she brought ideas and details that we would not have thought of on our own. We found her attention to detail outstanding. The addition also included a kitchen remodel and extension, her layout of that square footage was impressive, efficient and beautiful. Her communication was outstanding and she really took the time to get to know us and what was important to us. We had her handle taking the plans through permits with EDC and they went through successfully without any revisions. Sandra also has a superb list of recommendations for the engineering, grading and geo plans in addition to multiple contractors for us to use to get bids on the project. She coordinated with the multiple groups we needed to pull all the requirements together. Sandra handled it all and we are very happy with her designs, plans and the results, and happy to have made a friend in the process! She's good people. :) read more

It's not often that a firm thinks through your problem and then recommends a less expensive remedy, not using their services. Please know that Sandra did just that...and her solution and recommendations made much more sense. I appreciated her help, her thought, and her forthright way of laying out anticipated costs. She then spent some time to send me to people she trusted to do good work. So, this is a recommendation for an honest analysis. And, that she came highly recommended to me by others who had actual work done by her firm. read more

Sandra created a house design based on an idea we had and she did a great job at creating the plans and submitting them to the county. She also lined up the necessary engineers for documents needed for the permit process. She listens well is excellent to work with. read more

Sandra did an excellent job for us so we would highly recommend her to others. She asked great questions and delivered a design that met our needs. Her relationships with builders allowed us to work with a fantastic contractor whom she communicated with regularly on our behalf. When the county put up some roadblocks Sandra assisted us in resolving them quickly and efficiently. She continued to follow up with us through the jobs completion. We couldn't be happier! read more

I had very good service from Sandra. She reviewed our plans. Showed us a 3D of what our would look like.

I have no doubt that Sandra is passionate about her job as a designer, and I'm sure in some instances, she has done a fine job. I posted an honest review based on OUR experience and the ease of building her design, combined with the many difficulties we had with her overall professionalism. It not only made our planning process stressful but it also made us apprehensive to talk with her about the various working parts that we needed to be involved in where design was concerned. She made MANY huge, costly errors where the lack of detail was concerned and to this day, we have 3 different window styles, an additional $8k in Hvac costs we hadn't prepared for (caused by her poor design) and at least $10k in additional lumber costs where the grade wasn't shown on the elevation drawings. My review is an honest opinion of our experience, combined with the many trades that had to work from her plan. They all echoed the same thought. Her plan lacked necessary detail to build our house. Our contractor has built more than 300 homes, some exceeding 10,000 sq ft. He built most of Clos du Loc. He's no small builder and he's been building for more than 40 years. However, he wasn't the only trade complaining about the design. We heard the same feedback from our concrete foundation, framing, electrical, plumbing, Hvac and Window company. These were separate complaints and all without collaboration or prompting. Our framing contractor was compelled to write a letter explaining in detail why the drawing did not reflect accurately the bid we originally received. It was more than a $10k increase!!! The lack of detail cost us a lot of money and time to correct these issues. Some of the problems we've incurred cannot be corrected until we have more money. If you're considering her for a large project, I recommend having VERY experienced trades to build or you could be in for a whole lot more than you bargained for. We are still in the building process but are very disappointed with many areas that did not even have a reasonable or fixable solution. Such as, the 1/2 bath she designed under our stairs has absolutely no head room above the toilet. No one over 5' tall will ever be able to use that toilet without holding your ankles. Due to the shared wall carrying all the mechanical, there was NO way to change it. It's very odd and everyone that has seen it comments on how weird it looks and how dysfunctional it is. Our entire upstairs was drawn as unfinished storage but was to be completed immediately after the downstairs. It's completely plumbed, wired, tub set and sheet rock sitting up there, ready to be installed. We even got special permission to go further than just stubbing it out. Sadly, the space must have a completely separate Hvac and we hadn't planned for two systems since only one main unit was drawn in the attic. The joists run in such a way that the upstairs cannot be ducted with the same Hvac unit as downstairs. There was no way to put it in the attic, therefore the entire lower Hvac had to be relocated, eliminating its use for upstairs too. We don't have the extra $8k to buy a second Hvac system since we planned to add ducting to the one and only designed system only. Now an additional 2 bedrooms must sit unfinished as storage until we have the money to finish it. Meanwhile we have only two bedrooms and 7 people. We also had a 5th bedroom drawn but had to eliminate it because the Windows didn't meet egress and there was no additional header space to adjust it. We added an Hvac that we can't afford, lost a FULL bedroom and bathroom, have a downstairs toilet that no one over 10 years old can use, a foundation that cost $1,000's more than expected, and have 3 different windows in our house. Pretty fantastic huh?!?! The bottom line is this; she failed to thoroughly complete her professional responsibility and the result of that was 100% at our expense. Her response lacks any personal or professional responsibility in the cost or hardship she has caused to my family. I stand firm in the fact that I wouldn't use her again and I wouldn't recommend her either. We are trying to come to a decision on how to handle all of this. Our project has been one thing after another because of the design and unfortunately has busted our budget trying to accommodate these mistakes and lack of detail. My final thoughts: Designing a family home takes more than CAD skills. It takes listening, working with the builder and tradesman to see your design through, problem solving and where necessary, accepting ownership of problems that come up as a result of your design. She's never contacted my contractor, or us at any point. She's never been to visit our project even once. Instead of contacting me or my husband to resolve these issues that she's been made aware of, she posts a sweet response so you'll think differently than what we've suggested. She wanted my money, that's it. read more

I hired Fine Line CAD for my remodel on Shelliott. I loved the ideas Sandra came up with and we are pleased with the service from her and her team. From the beginning she had let us know what was going to work and what wasn't going to work and her and her team came out to check out the progress on the job multiple times Our remodel looks great! We are happy with her company and the professionalism that she and her team brings to the table. I would refer Fine Line CAD along to others. read more

I have worked with Sandra on multiple projects over the past 4 years as I am a local contractor and need a qualified designer or architect for most every project. She has been incredible to work with. She has always consulted with me on ideas that would make the plans simpler to work from or might be more cost effective for the customer. Multiple customers have thanked me for the referral and expressed what a pleasure it was to work with her. All I can hope is that our business relationship will continue well into the future. read more

I hired Sandra and Wes for my kitchen remodel and it was the greatest experience ever. I have built homes before and been overwhelmed by the process. Sandra is up on all the cutting edge procedures and designs. She is awesome on suggestions and is EXCELLANT at problem solving. I'm planning on hiring them for 2-3 more projects I have in mind. I'm excited to be working with extremely competent people. read more