Remodeling, Construction & Restoration in Sycamore, IL

Sycamore is the DeKalb County seat and keeps a well-preserved historic core for this part of northern Illinois. The streets around downtown hold Victorian-era and early-1900s homes with original woodwork, tall ceilings, pocket doors and staircases no builder would frame today. Working on those houses is a carpentry problem before it is a design problem — the trick is making new work look like it was always there.

Beyond the historic streets, Sycamore has the same layered growth as its neighbors: post-war and mid-century homes, 1970s and 1980s neighborhoods, and newer subdivisions toward the edges with farmland just past them. Those houses want practical things — a kitchen that functions, a second full bath, a finished lower level, and a roof and gutters that handle a northern Illinois winter without backing water into the soffit.

JGN handles both ends of that range because we do framing and reconstruction as well as finish work. An older Sycamore house often needs structure addressed before anything cosmetic: sagging floor framing, a header someone improvised, porch posts carrying more than they should. We will tell you what we find, in writing, before you commit to finishes. Estimates are free, and we work in English or Spanish.