Whole-House Remodel · Oak Park
Whole-House Remodel in Oak Park
A remodel in Oak Park, a village of older housing stock where new work has to be detailed carefully enough to disappear into what is already there.
New work, detailed to disappear
Oak Park housing is older than most of what we work on, and older houses are less forgiving. Floors are rarely level, walls are rarely plumb, and a crew used to new construction will fight that for weeks before accepting it and working with the building as found.
The answer is to survey properly and price honestly. We would rather tell you at the start that a floor needs leveling than discover it when the cabinets arrive and nothing sits flush. That conversation is uncomfortable once and useful for the rest of the job, because every number after it holds.
The short version
- Type
- Whole-House Remodel
- Where
- Oak Park, IL
- Scope
- Remodel of an older Oak Park house
- Photographs
- 13
The gallery
An older Oak Park house
Worth looking at closely, because the point of the detailing was that the new work would not announce itself.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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Older Oak Park house surveyed as found before pricing the work
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New work detailed to sit quietly inside existing rooms
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Out of level floors and walls accounted for at the start
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.