American Dream Design

Fifty-nine Google ratings averaging 4.9, and nearly every one of them is about a slab of stone. American Dream Design works out of Leominster, and the name is newer than the business behind it: the company says Nina Gonzalez started it as American Dream Granite and renamed it as the work broadened into kitchen and bath design. She describes it as family-owned and says she runs it alongside her husband. Directory profiles still carry the old name at the same phone number. The through-line in what customers write is fabrication, not general contracting. Granite and quartz countertops, solid-slab backsplashes, cabinets, thresholds — the pieces that go into a kitchen rather than the whole rebuild. A homeowner writing in early 2024 got specific about templating: the crew measured around a slight imperfection in the wall behind the counter so the finished piece closed with no gap, and produced a difficult run with no seam. In a 2022 review, someone who ordered a custom quartz bathroom top said it was cut to spec and installed within a few days. Gonzalez's name recurs more often than the company's. So do repeat buyers. A metro Boston developer and general contractor wrote in late 2024 about five years of working with her and sourcing cabinets across projects; a multi-family property owner writing in early 2025 said they had done several kitchens together. Trade-side repeat business is harder to manufacture than a one-off five-star. The account worth reading before you call is from November 2021. That customer rated the showroom and the pricing at the top of their scale and singled out Gonzalez as helpful in person, then scored installer professionalism and attention to detail a 1 out of 5 — writing that a second crew member spent template day talking rather than working, doubling the hours in the house, and that the install team missed its Friday window. A three-star review weeks later said an initial enquiry drew little interest. Both are nearly five years old and nothing similar has surfaced since, but they are the only detailed complaints on the books, and they are about execution rather than taste. One caveat on volume: the written history runs deep — 38 reviews stretching back to 2021 — but it lives almost entirely on Google, and just one has landed in the past six months. Its Angi profile carries none at all. If you want countertops fabricated and installed, or a kitchen designed around them with cabinets sourced to fit, this is a shop with a long and consistent history of write-ups behind it. If you're planning a gut renovation with plumbing, electrical, and framing to coordinate, ask up front what they handle in-house and what they hand off.