Justin Sherry Design Studio

First I want to say I do not normally write bad reviews and don’t take writing one lightly.I hired Justin Sherry to design a Garden Suite and a second suite, and the experience was worse than I could have ever imagined. Although Justin ultimately did submit our permits to the city he was extremely difficult to get a hold of, treated our account with little to no respect or urgency, and ultimately left us high and dry needing to find a new designer and engineer to get the project over the finish line. This is all despite paying top dollar (over $10,000) for both our designs, and him using prior designs as a template to streamline the project.As our first project, it took some time for us to begin construction and when we finally got things going our contractors found several issues with the design. Those included 1) Missing a structural post in the design, 2) Not measuring for the beam height to ensure minimum head clearance for the second suite, and 3) Putting our electrical panel in the middle of the kitchen for the 2nd suite. To be clear, I would expect any professional in this field to know the minimum height requirements for a basement and make the beam measurement one of the first things they do when starting a design to determine if it will need to be recessed or not. Despite the beam being fully exposed in over half of the basement it was entirely overlooked (he’ll probably say it was behind a wall…it wasn’t). I would also expect a professional to know that putting a fuse panel in a kitchen isn’t good design.Despite all of this, all along the way I have been polite and given Justin the benefit of the doubt (things can get missed, that’s fine) and was even willing to pay for the time it would take to correct these oversights. After discovering these issues, I simply reached out (for the first time) on October 24th mentioning that we would need to make some minor changes to account for the beam, move the kitchen to the other side of the room, and resize two windows. These changes should take at most 1 hour to do in CAD and send on to a structural engineer for the beam but I believe a week would be more than reasonable. He acknowledged the changes and said he would “get it done”. After two weeks, I reached back out to Justin on Nov 7th over text to ask where things were at but got no answer. I then called and he told me there was a queue and that he would “have it to me ASAP”. After waiting an additional 9 days from then, I still had not heard from him so I reached out again and he said he was in a meeting call you soon”…again no call. After telling him these delays were costing me money he fired back telling me how I should run my projects and not tell him about my lost revenue….he said “I’ll get it done.” Today is January 6

We had a great experience with Justin and his team from start to finish. They took our ideas and designed our dream home. I would highly recommend Justin. If you’re looking for a home or office that will have some amazing design features they can do it! Thank you Justin and team.

We used Justin Sherry Design Studio for our second suite design. At the beginning, we were excited to be working with Justin after being referred to him from a realtor we were working with. Initial conversations were great but when we had to make a couple minor revisions we were left waiting over 11 weeks and treated like we didn’t matter to his schedule. Our calls kept going to voicemail with no follow ups. We’ve since moved on and had to work with another company to complete our project.

Justin does one of the best designs, very impressive and creative, extraordinary designs, I recommend anyone who wants to have dream property designed. I am satisfied with the experience I had, he did the design and all permit processes and had permit issued successfully as well.

Justin and his Team were fantastic to work with! They really listened to my wants and needs as their client. Making the process smooth through out the design phase. In the end the results were amazing. Both architecturally and the interior design concept with Veronica... Highly recommend them!

I called Justin Sherry to discuss the possibility of working with him to design my home. Within the first few minutes of our conversation I knew he was the one I wanted to work with.We had a few chats, brainstormed styles, wants and needs and then he was off to work. In a very short time he revealed his work and I was absolutely overwhelmed with how perfectly he executed everything, I literally had no words, I was just so happy!!I would not hesitate to call Justin and his team of highly creative and professional people again to create another project with me.

Justin is an incredibly talented architect who will help your vision come to life! It has been a VERY long process for us, and after being unhappy with another architects design, Justin alleviated so much stress by designing us exactly what we were looking for!!I cannot speak highly enough of him and his team! Justin helped us design the most stunning family home and we are now in the building process, and I cannot wait to see it come to life. Anytime we have a question Justin is always there to answer. Thank you so much to Justin and the team for all of your efforts! Very much appreciated!!! - The MacKenzie's

Justin and his team have been an absolute pleasure to deal with during our renovation design. Justin has be extremely patient in helping us bring our dream to fruition. His creativity and vision is next level. A tremendously talented individual. You will not be disappointed.

After meeting Justin and his team we immediately felt that we are going to work together .We had great experience with the design of our dream home and furtherfollow up every step of the way.! We couldn't ask for more! Justin is very talented and knowledgeable architect incorporating newest aspects of architecture and design into his approach. All the members of his team are very attentive, caring and punctual. We will highly recommend Justin Sherry Design Studio for all architectural needs!!

I've worked with Justin for 5 years now on various designs and he's the real deal. He's a great designer with a detail oriented team surrounding him that know how to work within many municipalities; when permitting, this is half the battle!His designs are sleek and modern, but I've seen more contemporary designs as well that are magazine worthy! Just drive down Kempenfelt Drive to see his design and you'll be sold!More recently I've used Justin for designing Garden Suites; a market he's cornered in Barrie. He was able to hook me up with a project management group he works with for a completely turnkey solution. The best!