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Kitchen and bathroom remodeling in Lincoln Park.

Lincoln Park’s side streets hold brick rowhouses and houses from before the 1871 fire through the early 1900s, two of the city’s landmark districts, and a large stock of vintage and newer condominiums. We have completed a kitchen in the neighborhood, and we plan every project here from measurements at your home.

Serving Lincoln Park, Chicago, ZIP 60614. Every Chicago ZIP code is inside our service area.

White Shaker kitchen at night with lit glass cabinets, a stainless refrigerator, a red-knob range and a white island

Kitchens in Lincoln Park

Kitchens in rowhouses, greystones and condominiums.

A Lincoln Park rowhouse or greystone is narrow and deep, with the kitchen at the back, a rear stair and, often, a garden level below. The remodel question is usually how to connect the kitchen to the dining and living rooms along the length of the floor, and how to bring light to a room with one exterior wall. Many of these houses have been remodeled before, so the drawing starts with what the last remodel left behind the walls.

Condominiums, from vintage courtyard conversions to newer buildings, put the kitchen on a shared stack with a fixed panel and the association’s rules on hours and deliveries. We settle what can move at the consultation, then draw two or three layouts with costs before any finish is chosen.

Local context

Planning a remodel in Lincoln Park.

Two landmark districts

The Mid-North District, bounded by Fullerton, Armitage, Lincoln and Clark, is a Chicago Landmark district designated in 1977, with brick rowhouses and architecture from before 1871 through the early twentieth century. The Arlington-Deming District, mainly the 500 and 600 blocks of West Arlington and West Deming Places, was designated in 2007. The Sheffield National Register district covers much of the area west of Lincoln Avenue. For a designated Chicago Landmark or a building in a landmark district, the Historic Preservation Division reviews permit applications so the work does not affect the significant historical or architectural features named in the designation ordinance. The City says those features are typically the exterior elevations visible from the street, and that no additional permits are required for landmark buildings. A kitchen or bathroom remodel inside the walls is therefore usually outside that review; a new window, vent or rear opening on a designated building may not be, and we confirm it for the address before drawing it.

Mid-North District, Chicago Landmarks

City permits

The Department of Buildings’ Express Permit Program covers building repairs and a limited range of small improvement projects through an online platform, with guided worktypes that include electrical work, plumbing work, nonstructural interior alteration and mechanical work. A kitchen or bathroom remodel that alters plumbing or opens a wall goes through the standard permit process instead. We file whichever applies and schedule inspections before the walls close.

Chicago Express Permit Program

Condominiums and previous remodels

In a condominium the building decides what can move: the stack, the panel, whether a hood can vent outside, and the association’s hours, insurance and elevator rules. In a rowhouse that has been remodeled before, the previous work is what we open up, and we look for it during the visit. Chicago’s conduit rule applies to every new circuit in both.

Municipal requirements change and depend on the property. We confirm what applies to your address during planning rather than assuming from the neighborhood.

What we do here

The kind of Lincoln Park projects we take on.

Every project uses the same design and build team. These pages explain the scope in more depth.

Everything a kitchen remodel involves

Recent work

Recent work in Lincoln Park and nearby.

Recent projects completed by the contractors on our team, each labeled with its own location and its contractor.

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Bathrooms in Lincoln Park

Bathroom remodeling in Lincoln Park.

Rowhouse and greystone bathrooms are often stacked over the kitchen on one wet wall, so a complete remodel keeps the toilet and tub near the stack and rebuilds the rest: a level floor, a walk-in shower or freestanding tub with the waterproofing built as a tested system, a double vanity where the wall allows one, and lighting at the mirror. A primary bathroom carved from a bedroom is drawn with the whole floor so the plumbing route is settled before the proposal.

In condominiums the bathroom shares its stack with the units above and below and the waterproofing protects the neighbor as much as you, so we flood-test before tile and keep the photos in your project file. Exhaust routing is confirmed with the building, since a new exterior vent is not always allowed.

Bathroom with black hexagon tile on the wall and floor, a black veined vanity top and a glass walk-in shower — Bathroom remodels in Lincoln Park follow the same process as our kitchens: measured at the visit, priced from a written scope, permitted and inspected.

Investment

Budget considerations in Lincoln Park.

Houses that have been remodeled more than once carry unknowns from each round, and a full-height rowhouse remodel often reaches into the floors above and below for plumbing and ducting. Condominiums add association coordination and building limits on hoods and panels. Structural openings and any exterior change on a landmark-district building add engineering, permit and review time.

We do not publish a price per square foot. The Investment page explains what moves the number, and your priced proposal follows the in-home visit.

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Questions

Questions from Lincoln Park homeowners.

Does a Mid-North or Arlington-Deming house need landmark approval for a kitchen remodel?

For interior work, usually not. The City reviews permits for landmark-district properties against the significant features in the designation ordinance, which it says are typically the exterior elevations visible from the street. Exterior changes may need review, and we confirm them for your address before designing them in.

Can a Lincoln Park condo kitchen get a vented hood?

Sometimes. It depends on whether the building allows a new exterior penetration or has an existing route. We confirm with the building during the consultation, and where it cannot, a good recirculating hood is planned instead.

Have you worked in Lincoln Park?

Yes. A white Shaker kitchen in Lincoln Park with lit glass cabinets, a paneled refrigerator wall and a white island is in our gallery and shown on this page along with nearby projects.

Do you remodel bathrooms in Lincoln Park as well?

Yes. Complete bathroom remodels in rowhouses, greystones and condominiums follow the same process as our kitchens, including the flood test before tile.

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