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Kitchen and bathroom remodeling in Logan Square.

Logan Square is known for its boulevards, its greystones and its large bungalows, most of them built between 1880 and 1930 and many of them now split into units or brought back to single-family houses. We remodel their kitchens and bathrooms as complete projects, planned from measurements at your home and permitted through the City.

Serving Logan Square, Chicago, ZIP 60647. Every Chicago ZIP code is inside our service area.

Cream painted kitchen seen through a plaster arch, with a walnut island, leather counter stools and conical pendants

Kitchens in Logan Square

Greystone and two-flat kitchens along the boulevards.

A Logan Square greystone or two-flat puts the kitchen at the back of a long, narrow floor, with the plumbing stacked between floors and a rear stair to the yard. The layout works with the stack, borrows light from the back wall and keeps the path to the porch clear. When a two-flat becomes a single-family house, the second kitchen often becomes a family room or a large pantry, and the remaining kitchen gets the space it never had.

The neighborhood’s bungalows raise the usual bungalow questions: widening the wall to the dining room, absorbing the rear porch and planning a compact room. Whichever house you have, we draw two or three layouts with their costs before any finish is chosen.

Local context

Planning a remodel in Logan Square.

The Logan Square Boulevards District

Logan, Kedzie, Palmer and Humboldt Boulevards north of Cortland form the Logan Square Boulevards District, a Chicago Landmark district designated in 2005 and a National Register district since 1985, with buildings built primarily between 1880 and 1930. 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.

Logan Square Boulevards 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

Converted buildings and two-flats

Many Logan Square kitchens are in buildings that have been divided, combined or converted to condominiums over the decades, which means plumbing and electrical that were altered more than once. We identify the stack, the shutoffs and the panel at the consultation, and Chicago’s conduit requirement applies to every new circuit. The condo checklist covers what an association usually asks for.

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 Logan Square 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 near Logan Square.

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

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Bathrooms in Logan Square

Bathroom remodeling in Logan Square.

Greystone and two-flat bathrooms sit on the stack with the kitchen, so a complete remodel keeps the toilet and tub near their positions and rebuilds everything else: a level floor, a waterproofed tub or walk-in shower, a vanity with real storage, an exhaust fan ducted outside and lighting at the mirror. In a converted building the waterproofing protects the unit below, and we flood-test it before tile.

Owners bringing a two-flat back to a single-family house often gain a second full bathroom from the former upstairs kitchen or bath, which is drawn with the rest of the floor so the plumbing routes are settled before the proposal. In a bungalow the bathroom is the original small room off the hall, rebuilt within its footprint with a heated tile floor where the owner wants one.

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

Investment

Budget considerations in Logan Square.

Buildings from 1880 to 1930 carry the usual unknowns behind the walls: galvanized supply, cast-iron drains, plaster over lath and wiring altered by earlier owners. Proposals here tend to include more plumbing and electrical updating than a kitchen of the same size in a newer house. Structural openings, two-flat conversions 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 Logan Square homeowners.

Does a house on Logan or Kedzie Boulevard 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. A new window, vent or rear opening may need review, and we confirm it for your address before drawing it.

Do you convert two-flats back to single-family houses?

We plan and build the kitchen and bathroom side of it as part of a complete remodel, including the plumbing and electrical rerouting a deconversion involves. Where the project needs an architect for the whole building, we work alongside one.

Who handles the City permit and inspections?

We do. Lakefront prepares the drawings, files the permit through the City’s process and schedules rough inspections before the walls close.

Do you remodel bathrooms in Logan Square as well?

Yes. Complete bathroom remodels in greystones, two-flats, converted buildings and bungalows follow the same process as our kitchens.

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