We know these houses before we arrive.
A Portage Park bungalow, a Winnetka Tudor and a Lakeview high-rise ask three completely different questions of the same white kitchen. We work from a shop in Niles across 23 areas, and we know what is likely to be inside that wall before it is opened.
Close to the shop
Closest to our Niles shop, and where we do much of our work.
Park Ridge
next doorPark Ridge is our closest neighbour, and it is mostly 1920s to 1950s colonials, Tudors and centre-entrance houses.
Niles
next doorOur own base, and postwar to the core: ranches, split-levels and bungalows built for space rather than ornament.
Edison Park and Norwood Park
next doorTwo of the last bungalow-and-Cape-Cod pockets inside the city limits, and among the most house-proud.
Morton Grove
1.4 miPostwar ranches on generous lots, many still on their original plan.
Des Plaines
1.9 miMid-century ranches and raised ranches across most of the town, with older frame houses near the river.
Edgebrook and Sauganash
2.2 miThe quietest and most architectural corner of the northwest side: Tudors, colonials and custom houses on curved streets backing onto the forest preserve.
Glenview
2.4 miTwo Glenviews, wanting opposite things.
Jefferson Park
3.8 miChicago bungalow country, and the transit hub that made it.
Skokie
4.2 miBrick bungalows and postwar ranches, densely built and well maintained.
The North Shore and near suburbs
Older, larger houses, a butler pantry between the kitchen and the dining room, and a designer already on the job more often than not.
Wilmette
5 miEast Wilmette is early-century: Prairie-influenced houses, foursquares and centre-entrance colonials, most with a butler pantry between the kitchen and the dining room that somebody nearly removed in the 1980s.
Winnetka
5.2 miThe most demanding kitchens we are asked for.
Northbrook
5.3 miLarge postwar and 1980s houses on big lots, plus a steady run of tear-down rebuilds.
Evanston
5.5 miOne of the oldest and most varied housing stocks in the region: Victorians, foursquares, greystones and courtyard buildings, plus a large share of two-flats and condo conversions.
Portage Park
5.6 miThe heart of the bungalow belt.
The north side of the city
Bungalows, two-flats, greystones and condo conversions, from Lincoln Square down to Wicker Park.
Lincoln Square and Ravenswood
6.3 miFrame workers cottages, two-flats and greystones, most a hundred years old and most rehabbed at least once.
Irving Park and Old Irving
6 miUnusual for the northwest side: Victorian farmhouses and Queen Annes from before the bungalow boom, standing next to the bungalows that followed them.
Albany Park
6.2 miTwo-flats and three-flats, bungalows and courtyard buildings, much of it owner-occupied with a rental unit upstairs.
Avondale
6.9 miWorkers cottages and two-flats, and the highest remodelling demand of any area in our range.
North Center and Roscoe Village
7 miFrame cottages and two-flats being raised, dormered and extended, alongside new construction filling the gaps.
Logan Square
8.3 miGreystones and boulevard houses with some of the best surviving interiors in Chicago, plus a large stock of two-flats mid-conversion.
Bucktown and Wicker Park
10.5 miVictorian workers cottages and Italianate houses on narrow lots, most gut-rehabbed at least once, plus a decade of infill new construction.
Lincoln Park
9.8 miRowhouses, Victorians and high-end gut rehabs at the top of the market.
Lakeview
9.5 miWe have finished kitchens here repeatedly, in courtyard buildings, in walk-ups and on the thirtieth floor.
Jobs finished here
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