Kitchen Remodeling
Cabinetry, countertops, flooring, lighting and the plumbing and electrical behind them.
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Whole-Home Remodeling in St. Charles & the Fox Valley
Multi-room and whole-house remodels, phased so your household can keep living there.
Whole-home remodeling in St. Charles and Sugar Grove is less about any single room and more about the order of operations. Open the kitchen to the dining room, redo two baths, refinish the floors throughout, and suddenly every trade in the job wants the house at the same time. Our work is to sequence it so dust, trades and material deliveries arrive in a line instead of all at once.
Older houses here hold surprises: knob-and-tube in a wall nobody planned to open, a bearing wall where the plans showed a partition, three layers of flooring over a subfloor that was never flat. We would rather find all of that at demolition than in the middle of finish work, so we open things up early and tell you what we found before it turns into a change order you did not see coming.
Phasing is the part people underestimate. We talk through which rooms you need working and when. A functioning kitchen through the holidays. A bathroom for the kids upstairs. A clean path from the door to the stairs. Then we build around it: plastic up, zip walls at the openings, floor protection on the routes we walk, and a sweep at the end of every single day.
What a whole-home remodel covers
- Multi-room and whole-floor remodels under one schedule
- Opening up floor plans, including load-bearing changes
- Kitchen and bathroom gut and rebuild
- Flooring throughout, with subfloor leveling and repair
- Plumbing and electrical updates in opened walls
- Drywall, trim, interior doors and paint
- Insulation added while the walls are accessible
- Dust control, zip walls and daily cleanup
- Phased scheduling around the rooms you need working
Why a Fox Valley whole-home remodel needs one contractor
One schedule, not five
Trades waiting on each other is what stretches a remodel out. We hold the calendar, so the tile setter shows up when the floor is actually ready for him.
Surprises surfaced early
Old wiring, hidden framing changes, uneven subfloors. We open the house up at demolition and walk you through what we found before any of it touches the budget.
You can live in it
Zip walls at the openings, protected walkways, and a plan for which rooms stay usable. The house gets swept and secured before we leave it each evening.
Structural changes in scope
Taking out the wall between the kitchen and the living room is framing work, not finish work. We size the beam and carry the load ourselves rather than subbing it out.
How the job runs
From first walkthrough to final punch list
The same five steps on every job, whether it is one bathroom or a whole rebuild.
- 01
Consultation
We walk the space with you, in English or Spanish, and talk through what you want, what the house will allow, and what it should cost.
- 02
Accurate estimate
You get a written estimate with the scope spelled out — materials, labor and the schedule — so there is nothing to discover later.
- 03
Scheduling & materials
We order and move the materials, line up the trades and give you a start date we intend to keep.
- 04
Build
One accountable crew on site, with the job swept and secured at the end of every day.
- 05
Final walkthrough
We walk the finished work with you and handle the punch list before we call it done.
Questions
Whole-Home Remodeling questions
Ask us anything that is not covered here — call, text or send the form.
Should we move out during a whole-home remodel?
Most of our clients stay. It comes down to how much of the house is open at once and whether the kitchen or the only bathroom sits in the scope. We will tell you which stretches are genuinely rough and let you decide. Moving out usually lets us work faster, but it is your call.
Can you remodel one room at a time instead?
Yes, and sometimes that is the smarter way to spend the money. We can phase a house in separate stages, so you finish the kitchen, live with it, then bring us back for the baths. The tradeoff is mobilizing twice, and we will be straight with you about what that adds.
What happens if you find something unexpected behind the walls?
You hear about it the day we find it, with photos and with what it will take to fix. Older Fox Valley homes hide damaged framing, abandoned wiring and plumbing that was never right. Nothing gets quietly covered back up, and nothing gets charged without a conversation first.
Serving the Fox Valley
We take on whole-home remodels in St. Charles, Sugar Grove and DeKalb, along with the smaller multi-room projects that tend to grow into them. Hablamos español. Tell us which rooms are on the list and which have to stay working, and we will walk the house with you and price it in writing, free.
Whole-Home Remodeling across the Fox Valley
Owner-operated out of Maple Park, working across the Fox Valley and Kane and DeKalb counties. Pick your town for what we do there.
Ready for a free estimate?
Tell us the town, the room and roughly what you are picturing. We will come look, talk it through in English or Spanish, and put a written estimate in your hands.