House Plans Services in Manhattan, NY

“I have worked with Noha Hassan Designs on a number of projects from the trade perspective and would highly recommend her for projects. In addition to excellent taste, Noha goes above and beyond to ensure her clients get bespoke installs that cater to their needs while maintaining a superb aesthetic. It is a gift to be both tenacious and gracious, and she manages both effortlessly.”

“As a real estate broker, I have met many architects. Eric Baker and his team stand out in my book. Eric is passionate about his work - he listens and engages in each nuance of what each client wants in their dream house. A home is one's biggest investment and Eric collaborates with his clients to incorporate their ideas and make it their own masterpiece. With Eric, your ideas become a reality but he has the gift of being able to tie it all together to make a seamless flow in the finished product. He is honest and will let you know if an idea won't work, but will offer suggestions that often end up even better at the end. I have recommended Eric to many of my clients with outstanding results. He is personable, cares about his clients, and had good turnaround to get documents updated. He is also currently working on a project for me personally, and he has thought beyond what I initially wanted to create a better flow. Read his reviews and call him for a meeting, you will love working with Eric on your next project.”

“We had a 60+-yr-old high-rise apartment in Manhattan that needed serious, thorough renovation. Asbestos tiles. Ancient kitchen cabinetry and sink. Obsolete and inadequate wiring. We needed help re-imagining the space to achieve several goals at once. These goals included a) modernizing, b) ADA compliance, c) planning for aging-in-place so that we could live in our own home as long as possible, d) knocking down and rearranging walls to open the space, e) placement of glass transoms to allow eastern light to pass through the entire apartment, and f) establishing a backdrop on which to display our rather large and varied art collection. We also needed people to help navigate the insane process of getting permissions from everyone from our co-op management to the NYC Dept of Buildings. We discovered SmartDesign during an open-house tour event in our co-op where people who had renovated their own spaces were showing their projects to tours of other co-op residents. We walked into someone else's home and said, "Whoa! This is what we want! Who did this?" And the person responsible for pulling it all together, Alan Mishali, was there, ready to talk with us. We spent the next short while with Alan and his SmartDesign team helping us plan our dream home. Our "forever" home. They were a one-stop shop, meaning that they handled everything from design, to getting the permits through the NYC bureaucracy, to supplying the materials, to hiring the demolition and re-building team. They helped us through a unified design process that took into account everything we knew we wanted and thousands of things that we didn't know we wanted. They helped us design things like the various possible layouts of our kitchen backsplash, and the subtle color variations of our tilework. They helped us plan for a possible future where we had to deal with arthritis, and so there are no doorknobs in our home; all door handles are levers. The microwave is down low, so we don't have to reach above our heads to pull hot food out of a high place. They built custom-made bookshelves to keep our books and curios behind glass to avoid dust, and integrated pocket doors into these cabinets so that should we need a wheelchair in the future our bedroom is ready for it. All these things, and thousands of other details, can be seen in this project photoshoot once we moved back into the completed space: https://smartdesign.nyc/projects/morningside-heights-2-residence/ Once we got final permission from the NYC DOB and our cranky co-op management, work proceeded quickly and efficiently and was done on-time, on-budget, and actually early. With a project of this scope, naturally things will go wrong. Alan and SmartDesign are standing behind their work and have sent repair people out to handle every little problem that has popped up. Things like cabinetry problems, ceiling board joints settling and displaying cracks, and other problems. I trust Alan and SmartDesign.”