They Took Your Design to a Big Box Store. Here's Why It Keeps Happening.

They Took Your Design to a Big Box Store. Here's Why It Keeps Happening.

April 22, 2026 · 3 min · Season 8 · Episode 5

About this episode

Brandy Lawson discusses the challenges designers face when clients take their plans to big box stores for cheaper alternatives.

Get in Touch! Send us a message. You spent 20 hours on a design. You drove to the house, measured every wall, every window, every weird bump where the plumbing stack cuts into the cabinet run. You built the design, sourced the materials, put together a full presentation. They loved it. They thanked you. They shook your hand. Then they took your plans to a big box store to buy cheaper cabinets using your layout. You found out from the supplier. The problem isn't that the client was dishonest. ...

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