JFA Design Group

I found Johnâ s service through a contractor that I didnâ t end up working with. But working with John was a nice experience. I have plans to do some reno work on my townhouse kitchen, and an important part of the job is to widen the entrance between the kitchen and the dining room. Because itâ s a townhouse structure and the management donâ t know where the original blueprint is, and they require an architectural evaluation and drawing for opening the walls. I had to hire a structural engineer/architect to do the job. John came to my house several times. He did not open the wall to probe. He looked at the structures from the basement to the kitchen and did his engineer calculation and gave me the architectural drawings according to how big I wanted to widen the entrance. I donâ t know anything about architect, but his drawing was sent to the City Hall for permit. I did change my thoughts on the all opening a couple of times, and he always responded promptly and kindly, and made changes accordingly. I had expected a much higher price from contractors for hiring an architect, but John was very reasonable, and said for a small adjustment, it wouldnâ t cost so much. I thought everything went well in our communication and the final product and the value of the work. One thing though, when the city building inspector came, he said where we wanted the wall to end was not sitting on a basement column, and that piece of end wall has to be on a column. So this means I had to put back 6 inches of the wall I had originally cut. I was a little bummed about that. I canâ t say if this is something the architect shouldâ ve known (or maybe building code is slightly different every city?), but I wish I could be better prepared or informed about this particular building code. Overall, I thought it was a good experience and I would recommend JFA Design Group.

John was my best choice for this project, professional and knowledgeable into few days we were ready to start, three days since the day that met the permit was in place. Thank you John

John is just what we needed for our project, from meeting to the final drawings and he advised us with state and local building codes which is always helpful. He always returns calls a good thing today. We are still working our project and we are very pleased with JFA Design.

Came up with alot of good ideas and listened to what we wanted. Got our drawings done and finalized quickly.

John was very professional, knowledgeable, and friendly. It was a pleasure working with him.

he is a fraud, I thought he was a professional, he has left me a mess and breached the contract. He did not tell the city official the truth

John was very responsive and great to work with. He turned around my framing plans in a little over a week.

Great customer service. Very competitive fees for architectural services. Provided a lot of advice on the design and permitting process. thoroughly explained and answered my questions. Work still in progress and is promising.

Very helpful. Offered many ideas

Very knowledgeable, quickly replaying our questions, I would highly recommend his services.

We are happy to recommend JFA Design Group. After several sessions of explaining our design ideas to John Andrews, the architect, he very skillfully incorporated them into a preliminary design drawing. John listened very carefully, was very attentive, patient, and intuitive and helped us put our ideas onto paper. He will continue to work with us as we seek a contractor. He takes great pride in his work and we're very happy that we chose him as the architect to help us with our project and we highly recommend him.

Job done on time as promised

He's very good. Always on time. If there is any issues he takes initiative and gets it taken care of. I have already recommended him to friends.