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    Frankie & Grace

    4.1 (14 reviews)
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    Home interior design

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    Home staging

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    $2,250 Phase 1: Moodboard

    Frankie, After I decided to move a different direction I haven't contacted you once. You contacted me 7 days later to request I remove my experience on Yelp. You have since then messaged me about "extortion" "confidentiality" and "strange messages". I would consider this strange and borderline harassment. The review I posted is a factual perception and experience of your business. I've included screenshots and examples of your work to do so in order to assist other prospective clients with their due diligence in deciding to work with you. So please, I kindly ask that you refrain from messaging me from removing my experience. Thank you.

    Her main photo - FAKE. This room was NOT designed by her. This is a stock image. The photographer is based out of Poland.
    J F.

    Sad I have to write this review, because Francesca seems like a really nice person. That being said, I learned that this business is very dishonestly run and possibly fraudulent. I chose this company over others based solely on the Yelp photos, as there were 0 reviews at the time. But I recently learned that unfortunately, the photos you see on Yelp are NOT designed by her or this company. Almost all of them are stock images, taken from photographers based in other countries. Francesca purchased the copyrights for these and writes captions explaining that she designed these homes, which is not true. If you do a reverse Google image search for the photos she has uploaded, you can see the true source of the images. She writes that she "stages over 100 homes per month," which is obviously fake. If you stage over 100 homes per month, why can't you upload more real images of the homes YOU designed? If you're a reputable and experienced designer, why are almost all of these images purchased from Stock photo websites? Francesca, if I had known all of these images were NOT designed by you, I would have gone with a different designer! Putting fake photos up is plagiarizing others work, and unfair to other interior designers who have worked so hard to get beautiful photos of homes. If it wasn't for the fraudulent photos, I'd give her a 3 out of 5. I was actually really happy with her service at first, because she had amazing ideas and sent me beautiful photos visualizing the outcome would look like. Her great ideas didn't really materialize though, because the end result wasn't exactly what I wanted/expected. I needed a 2 person desk that could fit a desktop computer and the desk ended up being a 12 inch wide desk "shelf". When I said it wouldn't work, she basically blamed it on me, saying "we agreed on the measurements" but really I put my trust in her and had her choose measurements she thought would be best for the situation. There's no desktop computer in the world that would fit on a desk that short. She told me it "wasn't possible" to have a larger solid wood desk built, and I was charged to replace it with a cheap plastic desk. Francesca told me I should take out the existing shelves in my closet and rebuild them from scratch. I told her that the new shelves could not block the door per the building code. She designed the layout of the new closet, and her "carpenter" Derek installed them. We noticed immediately that the shelves blocked the door. Instead of re-doing the shelves, Derek removed one of the support beams closest to the door, making it much less stable. I was worried about how unstable and flimsy it seemed, but they told me it would be fine. Two weeks after I moved into the apartment, in the middle of the night, all of the closet shelves literally RIPPED out of the wall, terrifying us, damaging our items and causing a huge mess. We noticed that the shelves were NOT even attached to the studs in the wall, they were literally screwed into the drywall. Her carpenter offered to fix the shelves for free, which was nice. When he was installing the new shelves in the closet, we noticed that he was again screwing them directly into the drywall. He told us he couldn't find the studs in the wall because of the paneling on the wall. My fiancé asked to borrow his stud finder, and immediately (within 10 seconds) found all of the studs in the wall. Thankfully he was there to catch this mistake, or we could have been dealing with the same issue again. While he was here, he also repositioned our countertop, which took him 5 minutes. When I asked what the charge would be, he said $250. For five minutes of work? When I asked Francesca why I was charged another $250, she actually got really upset at me and said "he's a carpenter so his rate is $150 per hour." Well actually, you guys told me he'd fix the desk & closet for free, and sent me an invoice showing that his rate is $25/hour. Do you guys just make up your rate as you go along? I really don't think Francesca's "carpenter" is a real carpenter, or he would have had the proper tools and known how to find studs and install closet shelves that don't rip out of the wall. There were other issues/red flags but I think you get the point. Francesca, and her carpenter/friend Derek both seem like really nice people, but I personally would not trust them in the future. Francesca mostly stopped replying and helping me after I paid her, even though the job wasn't done. Nothing is unique or special about the layout she did. Her great ideas didn't transfer to real life. She got mad at me when I brought up issues. And she has fake photos & fake reviews written by her. Basically it seems like a scam company. Because of their dishonesty, I feel like I wasted my $2,000.

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    Another successful sale with Francesca! My houses look so HAPPY and FUN with her staging!!! I am a lucky Realtor to know her!

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    Awhh!! Thanks Jen !! We love working with you.

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    Thank you Joanna!! We loved working with you too. Such a pleasure.

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    5 years ago

    Stunning designs. Lovely team. My house sold in 5 days and I owe it to the young ladies who made my home look like new.

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