Granite City Interiors

Mike, the owner of Granite City Interiors, is a fraud. Do not let him touch your kitchen. He talks a big talk but he does not know what he is doing, and he is the type of person who can look at the blue sky and tell you it's red and make you believe it. He is not a cabinet guy even though he asserts that he is. The positive reviews on here are from a time when there was another owner who knew cabinets, but he is no longer there. Mike is trying to keep that revenue coming in, but is clearly incompetent for the job. The first week of July he committed to do our cabinets for our kitchen as part of a home remodel. He confidently assured us he could match the pictures and he showed he understood exactly what we wanted as we pointed out specifics piece by piece with pictures that we provided him. He committed to having the job done by 8/6/20. It is now 9/4/20, and the kitchen is nowhere near finished. What's worse, the work that has been done is visibly sloppy even to the layman (see pictures posted). Mike has stated that he would give us our money back, but then stated via text, when we followed up, asking for him to remove the cabinets that didn't match our agreement, and give our money back, "Not going to happen guys!! (see screenshots of our text exchanges). The last time Mike was supposed to come meet us to discuss how to fix the problem, he did not show up, which was typical. We texted him asking for his ETA, to which he replied with a text containing two photos: 1) a picture of stitches on his arm, and 2) a picture of a wrecked car. He said that he couldn't make the meeting because he'd just gotten into a car accident (this was the second time he actually used getting into a car accident as an excuse for not showing up.) The picture of his stitches did not look fresh, nor did he look like he was in a hospital. We looked at the meta data and could clearly see that the picture was taken over two years ago. The picture of the wrecked car was from a month ago (see pictures posted). This was not the first time he had lied to us. But it was the first time we called him out, followed by a request that he refund our money to us and discontinue the project (we have paid him $13k for the horrific job he has done thus far). I've attached photos of the entire text conversation. I've also attached photos of the horrible hack of a job he did. The man is not only wholly incompetent, he's dishonest. If you'd like to discuss my experience, I'd be happy to. (801) 36eight-419seven.