David Designed Interiors

Shortly after building and moving into our new home, David showed up at our door one day, introduced himself and told us what he did. We were just about to order blinds from Lowe's, but he convinced us his product and installation would be superior to Lowe's so we gave a deposit and in a reasonable time, the product arrived and he installed them perfectly. During this period, we also talked about jazzing up an area we had designated as a bar in our new home. He made some design suggestions and we decided to go ahead with the project and gave a $500 deposit toward the $900 job on 15 Jan. It should be noted that David is a one man band and uses an outside contractor for some design and installation functions. An initial estimate of start date was given, depending on his ability to coordinate with Carlos. We were told on multiple occasions that Carlos would arrive on such and such date but he never showed. My wife asked David on no less than three occasions that if no one was going to show up, to please call so we didn't wait around all day. Such was the case last Friday and David showed up around 5;30PM, hat in hand, no Carlos, but if we could wait a couple of hours, he'd be there to confirm the design. We had plans so David all but guaranteed that Carlos would show on Monday. Shortly after noon when neither David or Carlos showed or called, I called and left a message that immediate attention was required as we were entertaining the next two weekends. He called the following day suggesting that he return the deposit and he would show up on Thurs. with a personal check to refund our deposit. It's 5:20 Thurs. and no David. This man has wonderful ideas, does excellent work, but is totally undependable which is the reputation he has seemed to acquire in our development. One man band or not, giving one's word is important to us and we always felt there were other clients of his who were spending more money than we were that always got priority. If timeliness of performance and truthfulness are not important, by all means use him, he's good. If timeliness and truthfullness are important, you probably want to pass and avoid a great deal of agita. As a follow-up, he finally returned the deposit, LESS $75 he claimed was consulting fees that he volunteered to do. Juvenile. His fault the work wasn't done, yet made us feel we were at fault. STAY AWAY!