Whole-House Remodel · Naperville
Whole-House Remodel in Ashwood Park, Naperville
A remodel in Ashwood Park, Naperville, carried out on a house that was already standing and had to keep looking like it belonged on its street.
New work that had to read as original
Remodeling inside an established subdivision brings its own constraint. The house has neighbors who know what it looked like last year, so new work that announces itself as new work has failed at something, even if every detail of it is well made. Ashwood Park sets a standard for the street, and a remodel has to hold to it as much as a new build does.
The measure we use is simple. When it is done, the house should read as though it was always this way. That means matching trim profiles and ceiling heights rather than defaulting to current catalog standard, and it means deciding those things during design instead of on site.
The short version
- Type
- Whole-House Remodel
- Where
- Naperville, IL
- Scope
- Remodel of an existing Ashwood Park house
- Photographs
- 33
The gallery
A standing house, reworked
Finished rooms sit alongside the work in progress, so it stays clear which parts of the house are new.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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Existing Ashwood Park house reworked to read as original
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Trim profiles and ceiling heights matched to the standing house
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Design decisions taken before site work rather than during it
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.