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Whole Home Remodeling
in McHenry, IL
Whole Home Remodeling
in McHenry
Sometimes it’s not just one room that’s bugging you—it’s the whole house. The kitchen’s cramped, the living room doesn’t flow, the hallway is a bottleneck, and there are a couple of rooms nobody really uses. You like your street, you like your neighbors, you like being in McHenry… but the house itself feels pieced together and a little worn out.
That’s usually when people call us. We’re Smart Building Solutions, LLC, and a big chunk of our work is taking “almost right” houses and turning them into places that finally make sense front to back. Not just new paint and flooring, but fixing the way rooms connect, how you move through the space, and how the house actually feels when everyone’s home.
We’ve been in all kinds of McHenry homes and nearby places—older houses near the Fox River with additions tacked on over the years, 70s and 80s builds with choppy main floors, newer homes where everything is technically fine but nothing feels intentional. We walk it with you, talk through what drives you crazy, and start sketching out a plan that ties everything together without turning your life upside down more than it has to.
Some homeowners come in hot with a list: open up the main floor, finish the basement, redo the stairs, fix the weird front entry. Others just know the house feels choppy and tired but can’t quite point to why. Either way, our job is to help you sort it out and rebuild things so the whole home feels like it belongs to the same story—not a bunch of projects done at different times.
Why People Call Us for Whole Home Remodeling in McHenry
We’ve Seen It All
We’ve walked into main floors where you hit three doors in five feet. Homes with three different floor heights, four kinds of trim, and a dining room nobody’s used in years. Bonus rooms that turned into storage because they never really had a purpose. None of that scares us. We look at the structure, the layout, and the way you actually live in it, and start untangling the mess.
They’re Built to Last
When you redo a big chunk of a house, you don’t want it feeling loose or flimsy a year later. We pay attention to the guts: framing, subfloor, how walls tie together, how mechanicals run. We’re thinking about squeaks, drafts, and weird flex in the floor long before paint ever goes on. The goal is a house that feels solid when you walk through it, not just “freshened up.”
Made Just for You
Some families want big, open spaces where everyone can pile in. Others like separate zones so people can spread out and not be on top of each other. Maybe you work from home now and need a real office. Maybe the kids are older and the way you use the house has changed. We ask how you live now—not ten years ago—and build the new layout around that.
We Keep It Simple
A whole home remodel sounds huge, and it is. Our job is to keep it from feeling like chaos. We break the project into stages, tell you what’s coming up, and give you an honest idea of what life will look like while work is happening. If something unexpected shows up once we open walls, we talk it through instead of burying it. No vanishing acts. No guessing games.
Our Whole Home Remodeling Process
We try to keep this as low-drama as possible:
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Consultation & Walkthrough
We walk the house with you—main floor, upstairs, basement—while you point at the spots that drive you nuts. We take measurements, peek where we can behind things, and talk honestly about what’s realistic for your budget.
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Plan the Layout & Look
Then we sit down and sketch how the house should work—where you come in, drop bags, cook, hang out, and hide when you need quiet. Once that feels right, we talk flooring, doors, trim, and fixtures so the whole place feels like one finished home instead of a bunch of add-ons.
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Custom Build
Nothing is dropped in from a template. We frame and adjust around your actual walls, quirks, and angles so stairs, openings, and rooms feel like they were always meant to be there.
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Construction & Phasing
This is the messy part where things really move. On bigger jobs, we phase it so you can still live in parts of the house. You’ll know what rooms are “off limits,” what’s happening that week, and what’s coming next—no guessing.
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Walkthrough & Punch List
When we’re close to done, we do a slow lap together. Open doors, run water, flip switches, look at seams and edges. You tell us what bugs you, we write it down, and we come back until it feels less like a project and more like your home again.
Why McHenry Homeowners Work with
Smart Building Solutions, LLC
We stick around through the last little adjustments, not just the big reveal.
We’re local, we answer the phone, and we show up when we say we will.
We plan layouts and finishes for real life, not just one pretty angle in a photo.
We build to fit your house—no weird transitions, no “close enough” fixes.
We know McHenry homes and how they’ve been built and added onto over the years.
McHenry Homes, Midwest Weather
Houses around here have to deal with all of it—frozen winters, humid summers, muddy shoulder seasons, and a lot of in-between. Floors see snow and salt, doors swell and shrink, and older additions sometimes don’t handle the temperature swings very well. If you ignore that while remodeling, you feel it later in drafts, cracks, and noisy floors.
When we plan a whole home remodel, we keep McHenry’s weather in mind from the start—insulation, windows, doors, flooring, and how the house is going to move through the seasons. The idea is a home that feels solid and comfortable in February, July, and everything in between.