Design Concepts LTD

My house was built in 2000 by United Built Homes on a lot that was never graded. The salesman told me that it wasn't necessary since the lot had been cleared many years before and it was better to construct the house on the undisturbed ground. The fact is all he was interested in was getting paid and had no concern for what would happen once the job was done. Having no experience with building a house or what was required I took him at his word. As a consequence of this the lot had no drainage and water was steadily collecting under my house, which is not on slab, but up on piers. The constant moisture under my house was causing the floors to rot from under the house and was causing my house to literally sink into the ground on one side. Because the house was settling unevenly two windows on opposite sides of the house had broken. Also I had a carport behind the house that I was never able to use because my driveway did not extend all the way to where the carport was built. Pam Boyer, owner of Design Concepts is a close family friend that I have know since I was 5 years old and I knew that she was an interior designer, but I didn't know that she was also in the building and remodeling business until my mother told me. So I called her to see what she could do. As soon as she walked into my house, she was stainding in the hallway and immediately said before going any further, "this house isn't level". This was before I told her what was going on with the house. It was on from there. To make a long story short, she got her crews in gear and installed a French drainage system on three sides of the house and the water immediately started drying up under my house. She then leveled the house and strengthened the floor where it had started to rot. My original plan was to remodel my kitchen, which I always hated and replace the floor. Once the floor was fixed from underneath she ripped out the kitchen and had all new cabinets made, reconfigured the kitchen to give me twice as much cabinet space, installed granite counter tops, painted everything and poured the driveway all the to the carport and finished the carport. We completely redid the front porch and painted the outside of my house. She came in like a whirlwind, I told her what I wanted and she helped me pick colors and improved on my ideas. She was here at least every other day checking on the progress of her crew and making sure that everything was done to our satisfaction. At the end of every work day her crew cleaned up their mess and made sure that little evidence of what was going on inside didn't show too much on the outside. Be forewarned that Pam is a take charge kind of person and when she starts work it is to your advantage to stay out of her way. In about 2 weeks she will be coming back to remodel my bedroom and the two bathroom in my house. I'm so excited about finally getting the house I worked all my life to have I can hardly stand it. Pam is blessing.