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Home Remodeling & General Contracting in Downers Grove, IL

One of the country's great collections of early-1900s catalog homes.

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Remodeling in Downers Grove

What building in Downers Grove actually involves

Downers Grove has one of the largest surviving collections of Sears catalog homes anywhere in the country, and that fact tells you most of what you need to know about remodeling here: a lot of the housing stock is a hundred years old, beautifully proportioned, and built with methods no contractor uses anymore.

The housing stock in Downers Grove

Those early-1900s homes have small closed rooms, plaster over lath, balloon framing and, frequently, a kitchen that has been remodeled twice already in ways that fought the original plan. Nearer the edges of the village the stock shifts to 1950s and 1960s ranches and split-levels around Denburn Woods and the neighborhoods off Maple Avenue, where the issue is low ceilings and dark, compartmentalized main floors rather than age.

What that means for your project

Opening up a century-old house is a framing job before it is a design job — balloon-framed walls do not behave like modern platform framing when you take a section out. We plan the load path first. Downtown is walkable and the Metra lines make this a town people renovate rather than leave, which is why additions and finished basements are so common here.

  • Denburn Woods
  • Downtown Main Street
  • Tivoli Theatre
  • Maple Avenue

Most-requested work in Downers Grove

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The standard we build to

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  • Before and after of a full kitchen remodel by Ultimate Touch Home Remodeling — dated oak cabinets, laminate counters and black appliances replaced with white shaker cabinetry, stone counters, pendant lighting and wide-plank hardwood floors

    Full Kitchen Remodel

    A dated oak kitchen taken back to a bright, open cook space — white shaker cabinetry, stone counters, a bay window over the sink and wide-plank hardwood running through to the hearth room.

  • Before and after of a basement gut renovation — exposed studs and floor joists during demolition on the left, a finished wet bar with white cabinetry, stacked-stone backsplash, wine fridge and dark hardwood floors on the right

    Basement Gut Renovation & Wet Bar

    A basement stripped to studs and floor joists, then finished as a living space with a full wet bar — white cabinetry, stacked-stone backsplash, wine fridge, wainscot paneling and dark hardwood floors.

  • A second-floor addition framed and wrapped in house wrap above the brick first story of a Chicago-style home, with the new gable roofline in place

    Second-Floor Addition

    A full second story framed and wrapped over the brick first floor of a Chicago-style home, with the new gable roofline set and the structure dried in.

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Questions from Downers Grove homeowners

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What areas do you serve?
We work across Chicagoland, covering much of Cook, DuPage, Will and Lake counties. That includes Naperville, Orland Park, Chicago, Oak Park, Downers Grove, Wheaton, Elmhurst, Oak Brook, Lombard, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Joliet, New Lenox, Tinley Park, Homer Glen, Mokena, Frankfort, Lemont, Schaumburg and Arlington Heights, plus the surrounding suburbs. If your town is not on the list, call and ask — the coverage area is wider than the pages we have written.
Do you offer free estimates?
Yes. Call or text (847) 975-0476, or send the estimate form on this site, and we will come out, look at the project and give you a written estimate at no cost and with no obligation.
What services do you offer?
Full home remodeling, kitchen and bathroom remodeling, basement finishing, home and second-floor additions, new construction, interior remodeling and finish carpentry, exterior work and masonry including tuckpointing, patios and decks, demolition and gut-outs, and damage restoration and rebuilds.
Do you handle a full project from demolition through finishes?
Yes — that is how we prefer to work. The same company that takes the walls down puts them back up: demolition, framing, mechanical rough-ins, drywall, cabinetry, tile, flooring and finish carpentry. You are not left coordinating six separate trades, and there is no gap between them where responsibility gets lost.
Do you work with investors, landlords and commercial clients?
Yes. Alongside homeowner remodels we take on full gut renovations and new construction for real-estate investors and flippers, work for apartment and multi-unit owners, and commercial build-outs and remodels. Investor projects are scoped around the numbers, with a finish level chosen to match what the property and the market actually call for.

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