Home Remodeling & General Contracting in Oak Brook, IL

Oak Brook is a small village with unusually large lots and unusually good houses, and remodeling here is almost always about quality of finish rather than quantity of space. The homes already have the square footage; what they often lack is a kitchen and primary suite built to the standard the rest of the house was.

The housing stock in Oak Brook

Much of the village went up between the late 1950s and the 1980s — long, low mid-century moderns with walls of glass, plus 1970s and 1980s custom homes in Ginger Creek, Brook Forest and Fullersburg. The good ones have generous rooms, real masonry and site-built millwork. The dated ones have sunken conversation pits, closed galley kitchens and bathrooms with original tile that is genuinely period-correct and genuinely unusable.

What that means for your project

Large minimum lot sizes mean rear and side additions are usually feasible, and mature trees and grade changes make outdoor living space worth doing properly. This is the kind of project where our in-house finish carpentry — paneling, built-ins, fireplace surrounds — does most of the work.