Chicago Home Remodeling & Construction Contractor

A gut rehab is often the best way to make an older Chicago home work: new layout, new kitchen and baths, new electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, and finishes throughout, managed as one project. We also convert two-flats into single-family homes when the zoning and the building allow it.

Century-old city houses hide surprises, from overloaded joists and cut beams to masonry that needs tuckpointing or rebuilding. When the new layout calls for structural work, we bring in the engineer and keep that work inside the same contract.

When an existing house can’t be saved or doesn’t fit the lot, building new can make more sense. We build custom homes on Chicago lots, including the narrow 25-foot lots common across the city, from pre-construction through plans, permits, construction, and inspections.

New construction goes through the City’s Standard Plan Review, and taking down the existing house needs its own wrecking permit. Zoning sets how tall and how large the new home can be, so we check it before design starts.

Going up is often the only way to add space on a city lot. Second stories on bungalows and ranches, dormers, and rear additions all have to tie into the existing foundation, masonry, framing, and mechanical systems.

On a recent Chicago project we added a roughly 650-square-foot second floor with new rooms and a bathroom, matched to the original house, and handled City permitting, inspections, and zoning along the way.

We renovate and build out storefronts, restaurants, and offices for Chicago business owners and landlords, often in older mixed-use buildings with tight access, neighbors upstairs, and a business that needs to keep running.

One project lead manages the plans, City permits, trades, and inspections, and keeps your opening date in view from the first meeting to turnover.