Home Remodeling & General Contracting in Elmhurst, IL

Elmhurst has one of the most active teardown-and-rebuild markets in DuPage County, which makes it a town where the decision is often genuinely between a large addition and a new house. We build both, and we will tell you honestly which one the existing structure justifies.

The housing stock in Elmhurst

The older neighborhoods near Wilder Park and York Street hold Georgian and colonial revivals and 1920s brick homes with good bones and small kitchens. Between them sit 1950s and 1960s ranches on generous lots — the houses most likely to be either doubled in size or replaced. Newer construction from the last twenty years fills the gaps and is now old enough that finishes are dating.

What that means for your project

Where a house is worth keeping, a second-floor addition or a rear expansion buys the space without the cost and disruption of starting over. Where it is not, an infill build on a mature street is a project we run start to finish. Either way the constraint is the same: tight lots, close neighbors and a village that pays attention to setbacks.