STUDIO DUARTE

Fantastic! Junior, the owner of the company, is an amazing craftsman and business person. Aside from being brilliant at his craft, he is extremely nice, accommodating and fair. My husband and I live in New York City, so storage maximization is key. As such, we wanted to have customized closets built in order to maximize our storage capacity. We investigated the usual closet companies (e.g., CA Closets, etc.), but no one impressed us like Junior. Junior worked with exterior closet plans originally designed by our Interior Designer and then worked with us to create closet interiors that were customized to our needs. In fact, Junior spent an inordinate amount of time with us designing interiors suitable to our needs. Junior used high quality wood, veneer and fixtures, and our closets look absolutely perfect! The interiors consist of hanging rods, varied shelving, an audio/video component bay, hampers and a CD library space. Junior will make whatever you want!!!!!!!!! And, he is very flexible. During the closet building process, we had some minor changes to the interior design. Junior never said 'no' and had an uncanny commitment to making the customer happy. Junior implemented all of our changes, and he was happy to do it. He is also very committed to his craft and strives for perfection. One of our closets is made of zebra wood, while the other is made of lacquer. The zebra wood closet has a beam above the doors, and Junior ensured the pattern on the doors continued perfectly to the beam area. As a result, we have an absolutely perfect zebra wood pattern from the floor to the ceiling even though there is a beam separation above the doors. Regarding the lacquered closets, Junior ensured the color of the lacquer exactly matched the color of our living room walls. Junior took some of our paint back to his shop in order to get an exact match. Although the first mix didn't match exactly, Junior was not deterred. He took all six floor to ceiling doors back to his shop in Long lsland and coated them with a second batch. The second batch was perfect, and the doors are an exact match to our walls. I can't give this man and his staff enough accolades. He is representative of how business and customer service should be conducted. We were so impressed with Junior and his staff that we decided to use him to build customized bookshelves, a customized home office and a customized kitchen for us. He is great, and you will be thrilled with the final product!! It is comforting to know that Junior goes above and beyond to ensure the customer is happy with his work!!