Kelly Landry, Kitchen Designer

Kelly Landry designs kitchens; she does not build them. The Houzz profile is an individual designer's page, and the business behind it is a family-owned home improvement centre in Amesbury selling kitchen and bath cabinetry, countertops, doors, windows, lumber and building materials, trading as Jackson Kitchen Designs at 67 Haverhill Road. That distinction decides whether she is the right call. Everything listed is design and specification: kitchen and bath layouts, custom cabinets, countertops, pantries, walk-in closets, 3D renderings, floor plans and universal design. Installation, demolition, trade coordination and general contracting appear nowhere. The design side has a real footprint. Houzz shows 21 projects across Haverhill and Andover in Massachusetts and Atkinson, Windham and Salem in New Hampshire, plus five Houzz awards and two badges, and the stated job range runs $10,000 to $100,000. The catch is the rating. Houzz publishes a 5.0 average from 14 ratings, broken out evenly across work quality, communication and value — and not one of those 14 shows any text. A perfect average with nothing readable behind it tells a homeowner far less than a 4.5 they can actually check, so treat it as a starting point rather than a verdict, and ask her for two or three recent clients you can call. If you want a kitchen designed and the cabinetry and countertops specified and supplied, this is a reasonable call, and the Merrimack Valley and southern New Hampshire coverage is genuine. If you also need the demolition, plumbing, electrical and installation done, you will be hiring a contractor alongside her — settle up front who performs the installation and who holds the Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration covering it.