F9 Productions

Great recovery! After having a not great start, Alex and the guys at F9 fixed my concerns. How often can you say THAT about a company or an organization? My concerns were a late response from the team, but once F9 realized the problem they were very professional and quick to make a wrong right. Would I go back to them? YES! Yes I would.

We don't feel that the cost was worth what we got. I think on price they're in line with other architectural firms. I think they're all over-priced, honestly. We had a previous set of drawings but they were not computer drawings, they were old. This is a hundred year old house. We had drawings that were from 1980 about so we gave them those drawings. They had dimensions and everything on them. So they had those and they had our new drawing of what we wanted to do, the layout. We had done some basic drawings ourselves but they were on our measurements that we had done, but they weren't to scale exactly. They needed to be cleaned up. Our main thing since this was upstairs construction was making sure that our walls supporting the upstairs with a shower and some heavy stuff, if we're moving some walls or whatever, were going to be adequately supporting what we're doing. It was important to have everything lined up. So we wanted our first two floors, our basement and our main floor; it was key to getting these measurements lined up. We gave him our first architectural plans. We gave them what we hoped to achieve in our small, frankly; we're just making our bathroom bigger upstairs, but then we're knocking out part of that railing and that was part of the structural question, so we didn't have creativity involved because we knew what we wanted. We had a foundation of architectural plans and with all that they still made some fairly major errors. They had these laser measuring things with a laser beam and it was still off. On pricing I think they're in line with other architectural firms but their quality and the fact they made some major measuring errors, they know that we were not very happy. The quality needs to be graded down. On punctuality, they were on time.

Alex Gore is very pleasant to work with. He answered our questions, helped us figure out what our best option would be, and gave us a quote for what their services would be if we stripped the existing home, or scraped and rebuilt. We don't live in a fancy Denver neighborhood. Just your average neighborhood in Aurora. Having never worked with an architect, I had no idea how they would respond to our project. I was impressed with the fact that there was no sense of "this project is too small and unglamorous to do". At this time we are unable to hire them and move forward with the plan to scrape and rebuild. We are budgeting and saving for the project (knowing the price will probably be more) to go ahead with the rebuild in about 18 months. If f9 is available then, we plan on using them to design and build our home.

"How did it go?" Not great. So the offer was $99 for 3 hours of work. At that price we were not expecting A TON, so the bar was set low to begin with. F9 Was great about establishing a connection to set up a date. However, seeing as we live an hour away we offered to do a consultation over e-mail or phone call. That way our 3 hour block would not be eaten up by drive time. Within 2 weeks they reached back out to use with an idea, a good idea which we had not considered. The idea was some markups on our photos. GREAT! They also asked us what our budget was, and I quickly responded... our budget isn't that much BUT we were hoping for some more guidance; "You may want to consider saving up more as a the cost of this renovation could run you between X & Y?" Three weeks passed since the mark up email and i specifically asked for some guidance on the cost and any other items we should keep in mind when taking this project on... I have heard nothing. Disappointing.

Alex Gore was very responsive, professional, and helpful. We liked him immediately and he showed a real interest in our relatively small project. After the initial meeting, Alex did the research needed to determine if the proposed addition would meet Longmont city codes and regulations. Based on the information he provided, it was clear that our lot size is too small to accommodate an addition of any reasonable size. This answered our question and we now know that adding on to our existing home is not an option. Despite the outcome, we wouldn't hesitate to contact Alex in the future for architectural/design services, no matter how small. F9 Productions gets another 5-star review on Angie's List.

The responsiveness and professional guidance was spot on. At one point I did not take their recommendation, I came to regret that. Once again, They were spot on.

From the very start, F9 was engaged and interested in our project. They promptly and enthusiastically returned my calls and set up a site visit to see the needs of our busy family of 6 and our overall vision for the land. They were timely and flexible and easily worked with feedback to translate our desires into design. F-9 was fun to work with, yet always professional! We really wanted a well designed house that was architecturally pleasing, yet efficient and economical to build. F-9 has the construction expertise that enabled them to incorporate all of our goals into one design.

I couldn't have asked for a better firm for the design of my family's new house. This firm has an excellent sense of design that worked beautifully for the modern house I was looking for. They were wonderful to collaborate with! I appreciated their vision to make my home tailored to my family and our contemporary aesthetic. We are exceedingly happy with our home and the experience of working with F9.

They have been integral in the design and ultimate success of our projects. They are knowledgable in zoning code and have helped navigate the City requirements in procuring building permits. They have a nice eye for design and material selection and the end product for our projects have been of a high quality.

Working with F9 Productions is great. They are fast, friendly and do amazing work.