What clients say once the dust has actually settled
Every review below is sample content for this demo. The themes are the ones we hear most: honesty about structure, and communication during the months in between.
They documented two unpermitted alterations during the survey and priced the correction before we signed. No surprises in month four.
Fourteen months in the house with two kids. The containment and the temporary kitchen made it survivable.
I argued about paying for a flush beam instead of a dropped one. Standing in the room now, it was the right call.
They showed the shear re-sheathing as its own line in the estimate. It never felt like a change order.
They tested the slab humidity before quoting the floor. Two other bidders did not.
We asked for a kitchen. They told us the foundation came first. That honesty cost them four months of billing.
Three contractors offered to cut our roof trusses. Atelier found the original manufacturer instead.
Lead-safe work on a 1928 house, done properly, with the cleaning verification documented each time.
The egress window took longer than anyone hoped. Communication about it was excellent, which is not the same as fast.
Three days of levelling compound before a single board went down. The 40-foot run is dead flat.
They pulled the siding before pricing the ledger and found rot. Better to know in week one.
Skim coat priced as its own line rather than hidden. The walls are genuinely flat now.
- WA contractor registrationATELNW*123LM, bonded and insured (sample).
- Lead-safe certified firmRequired on every house built before 1978.
- Architect on staffDrawings produced in-house, not outsourced at permit.
- One superintendent per jobNever split across three sites at once.
- Stamped engineeringEvery structural change reviewed by a licensed engineer.
- Written change ordersPriced, signed and scheduled before any work starts.
Start with a walk-through, not a price
Ninety minutes in your house. We look at the crawlspace, the attic and the panel before we look at the kitchen, and you leave with a budget band you can plan around.