Alto66

We purchased a house in the Four Corners area of Florida. But we live in California. The house was built in the late 1990s and needed some changes. Most importantly here, we are removing a wall that helped define the kitchen. We needed to determine if that wall was load bearing, and to have drawings for permits. A search led us to Alto66 and Mr Hodges. We are very happy with this result! Mr Hodges returns phone calls! That alone puts Mr Hodges in the top five percent of professionals I’ve dealt with lately. In addition to being responsive, Mr Hodges LISTENS and asks clarifying questions. But that is not all. He meets his own deadlines; communicates clearly; is organized; punctual; and put out a clear, comprehensive, high quality product. Managing this project from a continent away is very daunting. Our family has a lot riding on this project. Mr Hodges’ attributes listed above, and how he runs Alto66, made this part of the project easy and resulted in a very welcome and needed boost in confidence. Thank You, Mr Hodges.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend LeVon & his services. It has been over 6-months since we have heard from him and we still do not have the construction documents that were promised back in early February. We tried giving him the benefit of the doubt thinking the delay may have been COVID related, however he has not responded to any of several attempts to contact him with exception to a brief Facebook messenger response back in June. Even that response contained an empty promise to send us an update. This situation has costed my family several thousand dollars and it pains me to even think that we have to start this process over after nearly a year & a half of waiting.

I hired Levon about 11 months ago in 2/2019 for a complete home remodel project, at a design cost of several thousand dollars, and have yet to receive the finished plans after nearly a year! This design should have been done 6 months ago, but he has repeatedly strung us out and delayed delivery of drawings at each of the last 2 of the 4 contractural phases following the initial concept work. We were concerned about the aggressive payment schedule, which was always in advance of the specified work, and that concern proved to be justified. After we had paid 90% of the bill over 7 months ago, he started a string of delays, repeatedly made and broke commitment dates, became unresponsive to calls, emails and texts, and offered a bunch of excuses about workload and personal issues. We initially bought his excuses and gave him a LOT of slack in the delivery schedules at each phase, and he took advantage. He took over 2 months to incorporate minor updates to the draft drawings after we agreed on the final design, despite his initial commitment to deliver them in a week or so. The docs turned out to have numerous errors and obvious omissions that our construction contractors pointed out. We sent Levon a list of updates, which he committed to do within a week or two. That was over 2 months ago and we still dont have any new drawings. He has made and broken 2 commitment dates so far on this delivery, the most recent claiming he was done but would not deliver until we paid the last 10% of the bill. We suspected that was another delay tactic, but immediately made the last payment in good faith and called his bluff. Sure enough, he stalled again saying he would deliver after 5 biz days “for payment to clear”, then wanted a 6th day for the MLK holiday, even though the bank transfer payment actually cleared within 1 day. We are still waiting a week later and he fails to respond to our repeated requests. His contract also has an expiration clause that unilaterally terminates his obligations after 1 year, which is just weeks away, and so far he has refused to extend it. I wonder if he is trying to run out the clock on us, although no judge would ever accept that. We have lost trust in Levon and would never recommend him. Certainly do not make payments in advance!! Update: Finally received the construction drawings to submit for engineering the day after this review posted, on his 3rd commitment date, 11mo+1wk after signing the contract. The design drawings are done reasonably well, just very late.

I have a 1925 garage/apartment that is now a single familyg home. I was hoping to find a designer who could not only help with a new design but also help with the historic district. LeVon was able to do not only all the above, it was done with style and grace. Thank you LeVon!

LeVon is our HERO! He deserves a billion stars, not just five! We had an incredibly time-sensitive and important project that LeVon was able to assist us with when we needed it most. He went so far above and beyond to make sure we reached our end goal successfully, despite many challenges, because he knew it was so important to us. He did what it took to get this project done for us. He is extremely professional, trustworthy, and reliable. We are so grateful for LeVon and everything he did to help us. When we reached out, he was very quick to respond with all the pertinent information regarding our project, unlike others we contacted. Working with him made all the difference. We did not know what we were doing and he gave us unexpected hands-on guidance in every aspect of our project. He took proactive action regularly to keep the project moving forward and always had our best interest in mind. We could go on and on and on about how amazing LeVon is. We are confident enough in his skills and strong work ethic to not only give our highest recommendation but to work with him again ourselves. We are so impressed with his work, attitude, generosity, and the kindness he consistently showed us on our very complicated journey. We don't know what we would have done without him. We could never thank him enough!

From conception to design Levon has made doing an addition on our home such a smooth process. He paid attention to the small details and put exactly what my wife and I dreamed of into fruition! I would highly recommend Levon to my friends and family.

Our family has been truly blessed by the house Levon designed for our family. From the beginning of the process Levon took the time to understand our family’s wants and practical needs. Our goal was to build a house that would be our forever home that fit with our family’s style and function. Levon really listened to our feedback and was able to implement our desires into reality. Levon was always accommodating to our feedback and provided relevant guidance/recommendations. Levon exceeded our expectations! Even years later we wouldn’t change our house. This is our forever home!

I worked with LeVon Designs Homes to design my new custom home. I had no previous experience having a custom home designed and built so I didn’t know what to expect. LeVon’s professionalism, courteousness, patience, and understanding personality made it an easy and enjoyable process. When we started, I really only knew I wanted an open floor plan. We do a lot of entertaining (40-50 people at a time). I communicated this to LeVon and he designed the home to easily and comfortably handle 60 people. His design process began with him asking plenty of questions to thoroughly understand my needs in my new home. He then created a design that I never would have thought of that exceeded my expectations. For example, he included vaulted ceilings in the Living Room, Dining Room, and Kitchen so the spaces don’t feel too confined when I am entertaining. He even included additional outlets in the Kitchen because he knew I would need to be able to plug in additional cooking appliances while entertaining. He also produced a site plan showing a wider driveway so we would have more room for parking during gatherings. He designed a private secondary bedroom suite with 2 bedrooms and a bath that can be easily closed off from the rest of the home, which works great for how I live in my home. My mother, who is a senior citizen and also lives in the home, uses a walker. Understanding my mother’s desire to be as independent as possible, LeVon developed a doorless, roll-in shower in her bathroom so she would be able to easily use it. LeVon promptly addressed any questions or concerns that I had during the design process. He also visited the site during construction, and was available to answer questions if they arose. Through his design ability, LeVon has truly created a sanctuary that I can enjoy for years to come. He designed my dream home! He is always my first recommendation whenever I meet someone who is interested in having a custom home designed.

LeVon took a very basic mediterranean house with a dark chopped up interior and remade the entire inside to become an open modern home with a classic flair. He modeled the entire first floor of the home including, reorienting the kitchen, moving the fireplace to a new location to reorient the family room, re-imagining the laundry room, removing walls to create and open feel, realigning all of the ceiling heights so that the rooms flowed together, complete remodel of the master suite -- bedroom, closet and bath. He also added a lot of windows to provide natural light which made the spaces feel warm and welcoming Very easy to work with. Creative. Handled everything with the city-- reorienting the fireplace was tricky but he came up with a great plan that met the code and set back requirements

I wrote a review on this Building Designer about a year ago. At the time we could not find a general contractor at a reasonable price to do our bathroom renovation based on the drawings done by Mr. Hodges. Since then, on May 5th of 2014 we were able to begin the renovations. It took the general contractor a long time to complete the project (4 months), but due to subcontractors' schedules and others going on vacation in the middle of the project it lengthen the completion time. I was very impressed by the fact that Mr. Hodges would come out to the house during the renovation process to check on the progress. I was also impressed on the amount of interest he showed on this project. I was able to constantly call on him for advice and guidance pertaining to what the general contractor was doing. He met several times with my general contractor and interior designer about the work being done. Whenever we ran into issues or concerns with the project, Mr. Hodges would be right out to address them. I am quite pleased with the final result of the renovation. I am attaching before and after photos of the completed bathroom based on the plans developed by LeVon Designs Houses, LLC.