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Home Remodeling in McHenry, IL
Smart Building Solutions, LLC
Local kitchen, bathroom, and whole-home remodeling for McHenry and nearby towns.
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You bought your place in McHenry for the neighborhood and the yard—but if the kitchen feels cramped, the bathroom is just “okay,” or the main floor doesn’t match how you live now, a smart remodel can change that fast.
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We’re Smart Building Solutions, LLC, a local home remodeling contractor in McHenry, IL. We handle kitchen and bathroom remodeling, tile work, additions, and full home renovations across McHenry, Crystal Lake, Woodstock, Johnsburg, and the surrounding area—showing up, doing clean work, and leaving you with a home that finally feels right.
Why the Details Matter in McHenry Homes
If you’ve ever tried to hang a cabinet or a door in an older McHenry house, you already know the secret: nothing is perfectly straight. Floors slope a bit toward the river, walls lean a little, framing from the 70s never quite matches framing from the 2000s, and sometimes you open a wall and find something that makes you say, “Huh… that’s interesting.”
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That’s why we don’t treat remodeling like a quick in-and-out job. Before we start ripping anything apart on a McHenry home remodeling project, we walk the house with you. We look at how people move through the space. We pay attention to the way light comes into the kitchen in the morning or how the bathroom fogs up at night. We notice where kids dump their backpacks, where you drop your keys, and where you end up standing when you’re talking to someone in the kitchen.
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All the “small” things add up. In a place like McHenry, with a mix of older river houses, 80s and 90s subdivisions, and newer builds out by the main roads, details really do matter. A good home remodel isn’t just new tile and paint. It’s how the doors close, how the drawers glide, how the layout feels when you’re tired and just trying to get through a busy day in a McHenry County winter.
Our Remodeling Services in McHenry
Most kitchens we walk into were designed for a different lifestyle than what people live now. One person cooking alone, no kids at the island, no laptops on the counter, no Zoom calls happening ten feet away. That’s not how families in McHenry live today, and your kitchen shouldn’t feel like it’s stuck in a different decade.
Tile is one of those things you see and feel every day, so it has to be done right. We handle tile installation all over McHenry and the surrounding towns – kitchen backsplashes, bathroom floors, walk-in showers, entryways, laundry rooms, you name it.
Bathrooms in McHenry County can be rough. Tiny showers, low vanities, old fiberglass, tile that never looks clean even when you scrub it – we see it all the time. Then you add real life on top of that: kids, guests, muddy dogs, all the stuff that doesn’t show up in a listing photo.
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Sometimes the house itself is fine, there’s just not enough of it. Maybe you need another bedroom, a bigger family room, a real mudroom, or space for a home office that isn’t squeezed into a corner of the kitchen. That’s where additions come in.
Every once in a while, a home needs more than a room-by-room fix. The layout, finishes, and overall flow are all a little off. You like the neighborhood, you like your lot, but the house feels like it’s still stuck in the year it was built.
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Not every project is a full gut remodel, and not every homeowner wants that. A lot of the work we do falls under good, honest renovation – taking what you have and making it work better.
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Our Story
Smart Building Solutions didn’t start with a big sign and a marketing plan. It started with a couple of people who knew how to do the work, got a chance, did a good job, and then kept getting calls from people who heard about that job.
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In the beginning, it was one kitchen, one bathroom, one basement at a time. Late nights. Weekends. A lot of time spent driving between jobs in McHenry, Crystal Lake, Woodstock, Johnsburg, and grabbing coffee wherever we could. The thing that kept us going, and still does, is pretty straightforward: we like seeing a space go from “we’re kind of embarrassed by this” to “we can’t believe this is our house.”
We don’t pretend to be perfect. Remodeling is messy. Things come up. Walls hide surprises. But we will talk to you, not around you. We will tell you what’s really going on. We will fix what needs to be fixed, not just what’s easy. And when we say we’re going to be somewhere, we actually show up.
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We’re not trying to become some giant company that no one in town knows personally. We’d rather be the crew people in McHenry feel okay giving their spare key to while they’re at work.
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How It Works - The way we work is pretty simple, and we try to keep it that way.
First, we talk. You reach out, tell us what’s going on with your home, send a few photos if you have them, and we get a feel for whether it’s a bathroom, kitchen, whole-floor, or whole-home kind of job. If it sounds like something we can genuinely help with, we set up a time to come out to your McHenry-area home.
Then we come look at the house. This is where we measure, look at your existing layout, peek where we can behind access panels, talk through ideas, and answer the “could we…?” questions you’ve probably been wondering about for a while. We go back, run numbers, and put together a clear plan with pricing that matches the scope so you know what your McHenry home remodeling project will involve.
Once you’re comfortable with the plan, we schedule the work and start building. You’ll know when we’re starting, who’s showing up, and roughly what to expect each week. We try to keep the site as clean as we can, especially when you’re living in the home during the remodel. And we keep you in the loop instead of disappearing and leaving you guessing.
At the end, we walk the project with you. We test doors, drawers, lights, fans, all of it. We take care of the small touch-ups that always come up once you really start living in the new space. Our goal is that a few months after the dust settles, you still walk into that kitchen, bathroom, or new addition and think, “Yep, this was worth it.”
A Local Touch
We’re not just driving in from far away to work here. This is our area too. We’ve worked in older homes near the Fox River and downtown McHenry, in neighborhoods closer to the main shopping areas, and out in quieter pockets where a lot of the houses were built around the same time.
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After a while, you start to recognize patterns. You know which years tend to have certain plumbing surprises, which rooflines collect the most ice, which layouts always seem to cause traffic jams in the kitchen. You also get a feel for what works long-term in a place that gets real winters, muddy springs, and busy families tracking in and out all day.
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We try to bring that local experience into every job, whether it’s a small tile update, a bathroom remodel, a kitchen makeover, or a full home renovation in McHenry, IL.
Our Customers
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