Reviews
“We hired Kathy Rogers of Sogno Design Group for our home remodel (basement room addition, kitchen expansion and redesign, added a deck) and I can’t say enough good things about her. Our space is gorgeous – Kathy has such talent for designing functional space with lovely details. She was responsive to our ideas and concerns (esp. $$ concerns), but also knew when to push us. She and her crew were very easy to work with and very knowledgable about the city of Berkeley permitting process.”
-Heather
“We loved working with Kathryn Rogers at Sogno Design Group. We saw how she so smoothly transformed our friend’s one story home into a 2-story home — and it looked like it should have been that way all along. So when it was time for us to put a large addition on our home, we hired her. We love her taste, and found it was so easy to work with her and her staff. She was very knowledgeable about the bureaucratic aspect of getting a remodel done, too (i.e. submissions to the city, permits, etc.) and helped facilitate the process. The new part of our home is our favorite place to hang out. We hope to remodel our kitchen in the future, and plan to hire her back!”
- Katrina
“We had a great experience working with Kathy Rogers at Sogno Design Group. I must admit that when I started the process of a home remodel I wondered, “What could an architect do for our remodel that an experienced contractor couldn’t”? By the end of the project, I got it. I still to this day don’t really know how Kathy got such a functional and beautiful bathroom into such a small space on our second floor. But she did. She also made a couple of changes to the design of the stairs leading to our second floor that turned it from something that felt like just a stairway to now something that feels more like a … cathedral (I know that sounds odd but trust me it’s good). She raised the ceiling as far as it could go (all the way to the peak of the roofline) and added a second window that lets additional light cascade down onto the stairs. Small tweaks – huge difference.
For our remodel, we worked with the experienced team of Kathy and Beth Quade at Broad Construction. They’d worked together before, and it showed. There were none of the small, but critical and often costly, miscommunications between the two that I’ve heard other friends describe from their remodels. They were in touch constantly and clearly worked together very effectively. Beth put the superb craftsmanship into the vision that Kathy put down on paper. A few of my picky relatives living in old homes on the East Coast marveled at the quality of the details that Beth fashioned. She and Kathy really maintained the integrity of a Craftsman home and clearly delivered quality work.
All in all, a great experience. I’d recommend Sogno Design Group highly.”
— Clem
“Kathy Rogers of Sogno Design Group is easy to work with, prioritizes green construction (and walks the walk by doing the same on her own home), conscious of limited budgets like ours, and has beautiful ideas/visions/plans. The remodel she planned for us transformed our home into a much more livable space and she was quite helpful in details such as choosing bathroom tiles and giving us flooring suggestions. She worked quite well with the contractor we hired, and communicated with both us and him very effectively. As a mom, she understands the practical aspects of planning. As a former carpenter, she understands a lot about construction. ”
— Marguerite
“Kathy Rogers assisted us with a remodel a few years ago and we are thrilled with her help (we had been previously working with an architect who was a nightmare insisting on making our house look like a spaceship!). One of the main things we wanted was a design that was beautiful but also kid-friendly. She is a mom herself and was able to come up with some suggestions, for flooring, etc. that could hold up to the kind of kid traffic we experience but still look cool. She is not the type of person who tries to pressure you into the most expensive materials. She gets to know you and makes suggestions based on what she thinks would work for your family. She is also an expert on green design. She helped us create a beautiful deck done in terracotta and Mexican tiles that is jaw-droppingly beautiful and has transformed our yard!”
— Carrie
“We appreciate Kathy’s design for the bathroom + all the advice she and her associates provided along the way. As a result the bathroom is truly gorgeous! We are so happy we hired Sogno!”
— Maxene and Neal
“We had a fantastic experience working with architect Kathy Rogers of Sogno Design Group over the last year and a half. We just finished a large scale remodel of our home in Berkeley and we are absolutely delighted with the results.
Kathy really listened to our needs and came up with very creative ways to make use of a lot of wasted space in our home, which had been badly remodeled in the 1980′s. We now feel that our home is not only beautiful and functional but also very ”family-friendly”. She made suggestions about green building materials and systems- some of which we were able to do now and some which have been master-planned for the future. We feel she was very sensitive to our budget-she helped us sort out which items to spend more on and which items to walk away from. For example, we found a very expensive mosaic tile that we wanted to use in our master bathroom. Kathy was able to recreate the same design using a much less expensive tile. It looks gorgeous!
Her office staff is also outstanding. When we had smaller questions and details to sort out, her staff was always available to help us do problem solving and regularly came up with very creative solutions.
Kathy really understands construction and the permitting process and worked very closely with our contractor, Beth Quade, of Broad Construction, whom she had recommended. We truly cannot imagine having been in better hands than with the two of them.”
— Pamela