Dewitt Designer Kitchens

My experience with DeWitt Designer Kitchens has a mixed
rating.
Dewitt Kitchens created the design/kitchen plans to remodel
my kitchen, as well as, provided the implementation of their design: floor,
cabinet, counter tops and backsplash instillation.  The kitchen design was beautiful. 
Dewitt Kitchen?s instillation of their design was very problematic: with very poor oversight
 by the two designers; limited follow through; and installing, removing and re-installing
the north cabinets, south cabinets and floor. The kitchen remodel began in August 2012 and did
not finish until DeWitt Kitchens re installed the kitchen floor in November of 2013.
The principal designer, Elina, was identified to me in June of 2012 as the co-owner
of DeWitt Designer Kitchens.  She is a very talented artist and kitchen and
bath designer.  Her plans are exceptional.  You can see her talent as
an artist, and her experience in the entertainment industry is evident in her
ability to design ?staring? and ?supporting? aspects/elements of your kitchen. Elina
is one of the few designers who truly understand lighting, which can transform
your kitchen from ordinary to sparkling. Ms. Katsioula-Beall?s kitchen designs
are unique, artistic, beautiful, one of a kind and will not be dated.  She is an exceptional designer, but in my
experience neither Elina nor the co-designer Ms. V-A managed or oversaw the
kitchen remodel project effectively.  See
below for the numerous instillation problems.
My numerous problems with DeWitt Designer Kitchens began with
the implementation by DeWitt Kitchens to install the cabinetry and floor. The
problems I encountered in my very small kitchen had to do with what I
experienced as a lack of monitoring the work of the cabinet and floor installers,
poor to no oversight, lack of follow through on known delays and missing
materials, and what appeared to me to be a limited supply of installers and
craftsmen, and a turn over of co-designers.  When I had my kitchen plans drawn up in 2012 there
were three co-designers besides Elina. 
One month later when my project started, one designer had retired to
Palm Springs, the second left, and that left just one co designer, Ms. V-A, to
work with Elina.  I have had past working
experience with two different interior design companies and had experienced
much better project monitoring, meeting time lines, and customer service then I
experienced with DeWitt Kitchens.
The problems started from the beginning of instillation.  The cabinet and floor
installer began to argue who had to level my kitchen floor.  Neither wanted to do the leveling because they
both indicated that there had been problems in the past on a previous DeWitt kitchen?s
floor leveling.  The cabinet installer ended up leveling the kitchen floor with a second piece of sanded plywood. 
The floor installer came and installed the floor.  The floor had to be redone 11
months later because, depending on the weather, every board in the center of
the kitchen floor squeaked.  Floor instillation problems often take a few months to appear.
My house inspector and the person recommended from Provenza Flooring Company came to look at the floor
and they both said the floor squeaked due to faulty floorboard instillation. The
installer came back and wanted to nail the floorboards down and fill the nail
holes to solve the squeaking problems. Unbelievable!  But, Mr. Meurer,
the president of DeWitt Kitchens, decided to have the center floorboards pulled
up and new floorboards glued to the plywood subfloor.  So be forewarned, the floor is the foundation
of your kitchen and it should be leveled before any cabinets go in.  My floor was leveled only between the
installed cabinets and the floor instillation was done improperly the first time.
The cabinets had to be re-done.  The north cabinets were installed too high
and had to be removed and re installed lower (there was no room for the marble
counter top).  Six weeks later when the Think Glass counter top arrived the
south cabinets had to be removed and made two inches shorter to fit the glass counter top. 
All this was done at DeWitt?s monetary expense, but it coast me a lot of
aggravation, dust, dirt and months of delay for a very small kitchen to be
finished properly.
From my experience, neither of the designers, Elina or Ms. V-A,
oversaw the project in a satisfactory, efficient or customer friendly
manner.  Materials readily available were not ordered nor delivered on time
for instillation: the flooring  finishing/reducer pieces took five weeks for
DeWitt Kitchens to pick up from their local supplier, but only after I fell and
complained did they secure these; some items were missing for the glass counter
top instillation; and the tile installer had to wait three hours for the
co-designer Ms. A-V  to bring the Vihara
Glass mosaic tile for him to install in the service area, after previously
being told that all the tile materials were at the job site. 
What was good: the two very talented and professional
craftsmen, Federico, the hood and counter top fabricator; and Molise tile and
marble fabricator and installer. I appreciate that Bill Meurer, the president
of DeWitt Designer Kitchens, stepped in after the second cabinet re-instillation
to oversee and remedy the ongoing problems of my kitchen remodel.
 The comments above come from my experiences, observations, conversations, photos, and e-mails to
and with DeWitt Designer Kitchens.
Due diligence: 
before contracting with DeWitt Kitchens, I looked on the State of California
Contractor?s web site and saw nothing on DeWitt Designer Kitchens.  I also checked the L A Superior Court and did
not find any litigation against DeWitt Kitchens.   There were no comments on Angies List back in 2012 and
only one post on Yelp after I had contracted with DeWitt Kitchens.