Nightmares at Duir Designs

2009-04-11T08:52:00.000-07:00

My husband and I have just gone through the worst four months of our lives. We hired a woman by the name of Shawnee Ryan – owner of Duir Construction and Design out of Glenwood Springs Colorado to do some remodeling of our home. At first she was very nice and we were happy with the plans she gave us. But satan manipulates you with a smile and hides her horns and pitch fork.

Shawnee promised us a time schedule and we agreed on a prices, materials etc. We picked out tile from her shop as well as light and plumbing fixtures. After we had agreed on everything and signed her (bogus) contract and gave her a large deposit, the nightmare began. The first day of scheduled work her workman did not show up. After several calls she finally called back THREE days later and said she would reschedule and tried to make it out to be OUR fault! We were angry over this but wanted the work done and agreed to the new schedule.

A week later the tile work began and upon coming home after the installation and discovering it was the WRONG tile we stopped the work and again made several calls to Shawnee. Her lack of attention to our complaints, her manipulations and lies continued over the next several weeks as we tried to get what was promised to us.

We cancelled the remaining work and we are still trying to get our money back. We discovered after much research that Shawnee has done this to several clients – a full on ‘bait and switch’ SCAM! She has you pick out items like light fixtures, tile, plumbing fixtures and asks for a large deposit. THEN she switches out the items for lower price items. She deposits your check and refuses to return your money.

In our research we discovered the following – She has 7 Court Judgments against her in Pitkin County and 10 Judgments against her in Garfield County. (She claims to work all over the state so we’re sure she has more judgments in other counties) We’ve discovered other victims that were harmed by this “expletive”. She has been completely unprofessional, brutally disrespectful and completely dishonest with us and others we have spoken to. She has not paid several of her subcontractors and has an UNSATISFACTORY STANDING with the BBB. This woman needs to be run out of town!

We spoke to another couple that had a worse experience than we did. We were contacted by them after we got our own contractor to finish our job. This couple also had to go through this contractor after being completely snowed by Shawnee Ryan and Duir Designs. Shawnee installed totally inferior wood flooring into this couple’s home last year. They ordered a very high end wood flooring for their entire house. What was installed ‘looked’ like what they had picked out until they started having trouble with it. They discovered that instead of the expensive – totally paid for, solid wood floors that they ordered the flooring that Shawnee actually put in was a much lower grade product which cost thousands less than what they had ordered. Shawnee pocketed the difference.

This couple pressed charges of course but this "expletive" knows how to ‘work the system’. BE AWARE – she knows how to manipulate and it will COST YOU! We just discovered this website and we are spreading the word about Duir Designs and owner Shawnee Ryan. Please – if this spawn of satan, sociopath, pathological liar has burned you – please tell as many people you can and add your experience to this blog! She does NOT belong in our wonderful community.