Parallel Design Group

My Husband and I worked with Julie on two projects. Our first project with Julie was a large and all encompassing, full house remodel. She assisted with everything from design, materials and lighting and subsequently a full basement remodel. The final project was stunning top to bottom and everything came together beautifully. She worked seamlessly with our general contractor and was always available to advise or make changes. We recently moved into a new house and we contacted Julie again with short notice to help tweak the new house to fit our style. She helped with paint, changing a bathroom, lighting and fireplace design as well as redesign of a basement bar to tie in our rustic pool table. Julie is talented, professional and hard-​working. She is good at meeting deadlines and keeping the process moving forward. Would highly recommend her

I cannot recommend Parallel Design Group or Julie Brodsky. We hired her for a Poptop project after Blue Sky’s Remodeling Recommendation. We provided a $ 5500 deposit (50% down) and lost faith her her ability to execute on our project after our first meeting. We made it very clear we didn’t want an addition on the main floor because we didn’t want to loose our yard or any of the elements in our backyard we loved, we requested some drawings with rooftops, we did not want to refinish a our already finished basement. All of these requests were ignored and we ended up wasting 2 hours going over plans that did not meet our requirements. Additionally, several of the plans had a main floor bumpout that would have required the basement windows be framed in and natural light be lost, however this wasn’t disclosed until a couple weeks later when we inquired. She had us spend all this time pick an upstairs & mainfloor we liked only to spring on us that would require us moving the stairs and a complete remodel of the basement hence putting us over budget. We were interested in building over our sunroom to get more live-​able space on the second level, but Julie could figure out the zoning to see if this was allowed, even our contractor thought it was odd she could figure that out. W In the end she just put a balcony over it and called it good. Just like she couldn’t figure out a rooftop deck so she didn’t bring a design. In the end we could not get a floorplan that we excited or even content with building and we ended the project and requested a refund since we have no designs to use an inaccurate schematic (that we did sign off on, but later brought to her attention was incorrect). She insisted the project was almost complete. Not sure how the project is complete with no floorplan, hence no elevation & an incorrect schematic. Long story short she had an attorney serve us with a papers. Please learn from our mistake and do not do busy with this litigious architect that lacks attention to detail, does not listen, lacks creativity. I have confirmed this is not an isolated incident with other neighbors saying they had a similar experience. (e did bring out dissatisfaction in Julie’s skills to the Design Build group Blue Sky Remodeling that recommended her and they were no help in resolving the project going sideways fast.)
In the end we have an incorrect schematic & a headache. We signed a terrible contract and she was able to screw us out of another $ 1700, because if we fought her on it we’d have to pay for her attorney. I feel like a complete idiot for hiring this incompetent architect & signing her contract which pretty much allows her to rip off consumers. Do yourself a favor and hire someone else. After getting ripped off by Julie I reached out to Nextdoor Neighbors and Highlands Mommies to see if anyone else had fell victim and we found out we were not alone,