Cherry Tree DesignReviews of cherrytreedesign.com

Hi. I sent a pretty detailed opinion around August 1 to Bev, with a picture. Now I would add that even though I already sent the opinion that you are now seeking, it is not clear that you read or even received it. Why not a quick acknowledgement? That is what I mean by, "not impressed by your attention to detail." The door is great, the delivery was good, it was not good that someone misplaced the first contract that I signed, but that didn't cost too much of a delay. Here is what I sent in early August, along with a picture. Hi Bev, I just wanted to let you know that the door arrived after we were back from Europe (almost a week after). Gabi and I installed it ourselves and the photos are attached. My plus deltas for you: +’s good organization and good attention to detail in the design and manufacturing The door looks good and was the type of design and construction we were hoping for. Good detailed instructions for the installment. Good/decent instructions (my phd biologist wife thought they were not good). Good instructions were truly necessary, and they were good enough for me (PhD engineer). delta’s It came a day or two later than promised for the shipping. Not a big deal but the shipping company had local issues and it sat a day in Terre Haute. I didn’t realize we needed a mitre box and pin nailer for assembly and that probably would have been better to know up front. We did it without the pin nailer. Overall we are satisfied with what we purchased. It is well made and functions flawlessly.

The shoji screens are very attractive and we are enjoying them. But there is a design flaw in the product I installed. My screens have grillwork only on one side (using them as window treatment for sliding glass doors) and the velom material is held in on the backside with unsecured shims. During shipment all of the shims fell out and I had to request more from Bev Piette and reinstall the screen material. A better design would have been to secure the screen material with full length molding (glued and tacked in place) and mitered in the corners. The grill work should also have been glued in place to the velom screen material. Please be advised that Bev Peitte was most helpful and professional, without her assistance I would not have ordered the product.

I am very pleased with the Soshi doors. Just so everyone knows... the doors looked very light (not the cherrywood darker color that I was expecting) but they are darkening as time passes and blending in nicely with my existing woodwork.

Everything about the doors is wonderful. We learned how to fix the waviness of the paper and that worked fine after delivery -- no problem. The quality is really great. We have gotten many compliments on them. The only problem we had in the whole process is that Bev sent us completely inaccurate quotes so poorly prepared that it did not even have the correct product named on the face of it, let alone the correct price and components. Thankfully, Tor stepped in and we were able to complete the transaction. Bev did not even know how to correctly use the software that prepares the quotes. That portion of the business needs to be changed.