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We design and build homes in all styles throughout Northbrook, Glencoe, Glenview, Riverwoods, Evanston, Chicago, and the surrounding areas. Located in the heart of Northbrook, Highgate Builders also specializes in custom home remodeling, renovations, and home addition projects throughout Chicago, the North Shore, Michigan and Northwest Indiana. Highgate Builders is proud to exceed clients’ expectations with their attention to detail and proven formula for success. As a third generation builder on the North Shore, Vasco Builders brings historic exteriors to a new level in a 21st century home.
The 10,000 square-foot residence features expansive windows, a custom-designed steel and glass staircase, and state-of-the-art smart home technology. Getting multiple bids is the best way to ensure you get a fair price and that bids include the complete scope of work. The company has won Nearly 100 Key Awards from the HBAGC, including a 2017 Platinum Key Award for Custom Home Suburban Home 11,000 to 13,000 square feet, and a Silver Key Award for Single Family 10,000 to 13,000 square feet. The company builds large and luxurious homes in upscale, exclusive settings, and works in a wide range of styles.
Icon Building Group
With our customer-centric process, you can choose to have us build your home on one of our lots, on one you have already selected, or we can help you locate a lot that works within your budget and meets your specifications. We strive for excellence and will work with you till the very last detail to make sure you love your new dream home in the North Shore. The MK team is fluent in the language of construction, offering comprehensive services from concept all the way to completion. The team’s skill begins with blueprints and extends to the very particular hand-selection of upscale finishes and amenities. The 5,600 square-foot home faces the street, granting the homeowners a gorgeous view through the massive panel of windows that make up the home’s façade. Inside, you will find brightly-lit rooms, a master bath that leads to a large walk-in closet, wooden-panelled staircases, and an open concept living room and kitchen.
Partners Ken Bernhard and Tom Detelich run this custom home contractor in St. Charles, IL, a design-build firm specializing in refined and elegant homes with top-shelf features. The residential contractor builds throughout northern Illinois and the Chicago area, including the Central Fox Valley and the northwestern, western, and southwestern suburbs. Working in styles from traditional to transitional, the firm offers one-of-a-kind swanky details, such as antique clawfoot bathtubs, stone fireplaces, slate roofs, and smart home technologies. A leading Chicago design-build firm, Cesario Home Builders has been constructing deluxe residences for some 40 years and counting.
North Shore Custom Home Builders and Architects
The home combines traditional style with modern features, including opulent landscaping architecture, a focus on window design and natural light, and a large backyard four seasons room for indoor-outdoor living space. This home, while situated in an urban suburb of Chicago, incorporates thoughtful planning to make it feel like a getaway home. James Schueller was practicing as a real estate attorney when he began developing a few properties on the side. In 2003, he founded Bloomfield Development Company with his wife and an artisan custom cabinetry maker, Erik Walek.
Glencoe is one of Chicago’s most beautiful suburbs with lakefront homes and a forest preserve surrounding the charming downtown, all within the nationally-recognized New Trier High School district. This custom home builder in Illinois constructs beautiful urban mansions in Chicago’s most expensive neighborhoods, including Lincoln Park, Gold Coast, Lakeview, and Streeterville. The firm won a 2017 Best in American Living Award from the NAHB and a 2017 Diamond Key Award from the HBAGC for a stunning 12,000-square-foot home in Lincoln Park. WIth a French-inspired design and a limestone facade, the home features and indoor swimming pool on the lower level, complete with changing rooms, showers, and lockers. One of the firm’s current projects on ultra-posh Howe Street, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park area, is going for $7.5M. The 10,000-square-foot palace, which is typical of the homes that Environs builds, has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a three-car heated garage, a five-stop elevator, a penthouse roof deck, and his-and-hers master bathrooms.
Luxury Home Builders North Shore, IL Residents Trust
Clients rely on NEWLOOK for custom homebuilding, remodeling, and brokerage, which, for years, have raised the bar along the North Shore and throughout Chicago. Our custom homes offer functional design with high end finishes that consistently exceed expectations. NEWLOOK’s renovations and remodel team combine design and brokerage experience, leading a client to a balance of investment return while providing an exceptional custom product at each home. As such, the firm is active in the community, building homes for various charitable organizations. The company built the St. Jude Dream Home in a community in Vernon Hills — a luxury home for which all proceeds were donated to benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Icon Building Group also built a million-dollar home in partnership with Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors, with proceeds directed towards improving the quality of life for wounded veterans.
Newlook is located in Wilmette, IL, where they have a residential showroom featuring top-end materials and design ideas. Amrami Design + Build has been a luxury custom home builder in Chicago for over twenty years. Led by husband-and-wife team, Benjamin and Jennifer Amrami, the firm has grown from a talented couple to a dedicated team of skilled designers and craftsmen.
Committed to doing your project right, NEWLOOK’s seasoned staff is reliable and accountable; beginning with acquisitions and designs through building completion and sales, our team provides personal answers to your needs at every turn. NEWLOOK is a second generation, family-owned design-build + development business focusing on luxury residential and commercial in Chicago and its North Shore for over 30 years. Highgate Builders is an award-winning practice whose mission is to design and build the best custom homes throughout Chicago, the North Shore, and its surrounding suburbs.
Riordan Signature Homes’ portfolio is filled with Nantucket, Tuscan, Italianate, and Dutch style homes. The firm distinguishes its work by coupling old-world craftsmanship with modern innovations. Through this combination of old and new, the firm’s projects have won multiple coveted Key Awards from the HBA of Greater Chicago in the last decade.
New home construction offers an innovative use of space, greater energy efficiency, and 21st century constructions methods. Vasco Builders is always exploring ways to partner with North Shore homeowners looking to sell their homes/lots. Principal and Director, Michael Freiburger recognized on Professional Builder Magazine's 40 Under 40 List. Professional Builder editors chose the winners from more than 150 nominations this year, illustrating the depth of talent among this collection of future, and present, industry leaders. Each member of the Class of 2018 is profiled in the March issue of the magazine and online at ProBuilder.com.
Glenview is renowned for impressive schools, more than 290 acres of green space, quaint shopping and dining as well as proximity to Chicago expressways and commuter trains. Winnetka amazes with a mix of sprawling lakefront properties and homes from as early as the 1830s. Our team has created stunning new construction homes and preserves the heritage of the community with expert Tudor and historic and even Spanish Colonial renovations. If an architectural design team has already been selected, Highgate can utilize our pre-construction process to accomplish your goals.
President and Founder Anthony Cesario grew up learning from his father, a European cabinet maker. He has served as president of the Illinois Home Builders Association and has won several Silver and Gold Key Awards from the HBAGC. The company builds in many of the region’s poshest and most exclusive communities, including Glen Ellyn, Glenview, and Hinsdale.
President Rodger A. Owen, a graduate of Indiana University and the MBA program at the University of Chicago, is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and has studied and traveled extensively in Europe. Partner Charles R. Grode has been in real estate and construction for more than 30 years. He has degrees from Indiana University and Pennsylvania State University and studied at the Institut de Francais, Villefranche-sur-Mer in France, and at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Orren Pickell Building Group
Today, BrightLeaf Homes, through the partnership between Scott and green builders Rick and Alex Thompson, is able to offer comprehensive services ranging from design, construction and remodeling, and real estate. With their combined skills, the trio was able to grow the number of homes they built and remodeled throughout the Chicagoland area. The firm’s staff has also grown to include expert real estate agents, project managers, interior designers, and an in-house architect. Through their collective hard work and the vision of Scott for a green building firm that responds to both the needs of clients and the environment, the firm has earned recognition, ranking #711 on Inc. 5000.
