Opening Up A First Floor

In last weeks post I showed you a remodel that I just completed in Naperville. In that job I reconfigured two rooms and a hallway into one large living space. Today, I would like to show you some photos of that same space, this time emphasizing the removal of the hall...

An Amazing Kitchen Transformation

I recently completed a project in Naperville, and I will use the next few post to show you some of the significant changes that the owner made to their entire first floor. One part of that renovation was to remove load bearing walls to open up the kitchen. In the...

Out Of The Ashes Rises A New Kitchen

When a house has a fire the damage goes well beyond the flames. Smoke and water damage can be just as destructive as heat damage. My customer’s kitchen was completely destroyed by a house fire that was localized in his attached garage. Nothing could be salvaged....

What A Different A Floor Makes

Major construction projects have dozens if not hundreds of steps necessary to reach completion.  All of these steps are very necessary, but not very glamorous.  In fact, a project often looks worse during the process than it did at its beginning.  However, certain...

A Kitchen Unboxing

I am rebuilding a house that was fire damaged.  When you work on a project that is this large the progress may seem slow, as so many different tasks need to be done in a specific order. This Wednesday I received a truckload of boxes.  Those boxes contained my...

The Beauty Behind The Walls

As I have mentioned in previous post, I am working on a complete home renovation.  The entire house was gutted, and now it has to be repaired and brought up to current building code standards. This means that I have had to replace all of the house systems, including...