Wood Contracting serves Hyde Park with kitchen, bathroom, and whole-home remodeling, backed by a contractor with more than 30 years of hands-on experience. We remodel kitchens, bathrooms, and entire homes across the greystones and mansions near the University of Chicago, the 1920s lakefront co-op and courtyard buildings, and the newer condos. Most bathrooms run 4 to 6 weeks and most kitchens 6 to 10, with cost ranges in the summary below. We hold Illinois GC license TGC105501, are EPA Lead-Safe certified, carry full insurance, and coordinate city permits and any co-op or condo board review your building requires.
Hyde Park Remodeling At a Glance
A quick orientation before we talk:
- Kitchen remodels: $15,000 to $80,000+, depending on finishes and how much the layout or original infrastructure changes.
- Bathroom remodels: $12,000 to $55,000+, from a powder room update to a full primary bathroom.
- Timelines: a bathroom is usually 4 to 6 weeks, a kitchen 6 to 10, and a whole-home renovation 10 to 16.
- Approvals: single-family greystones and mansions are mostly a city-permit conversation; co-op and condo buildings add board or association review and a certificate of insurance; landmarked blocks can add a look at exterior changes. We coordinate whichever applies.
- Older-home realities: these are solid, well-built homes, but the pre-war ones often hide cast-iron stacks, knob-and-tube wiring, and plaster over uneven framing. We map that before we start.
- Credentials: Illinois GC license TGC105501, EPA Lead-Safe certified, fully insured.
- To get started: a free consultation with Dillon, usually within the same week.
Why Hyde Park Homeowners Trust Wood Contracting
Hyde Park takes its architecture seriously, from the greystones and mansions around the University of Chicago to the 1920s co-op and courtyard buildings along the lakefront. The contractor you choose has to work with that history, not around it, which means reading a building's original construction and its board's expectations before a single wall comes down. Working with that history rather than around it is exactly what we do, and it is why roughly 90% of our projects come from referrals and repeat clients.
When you reach out, you sit down with Dillon Wood, not a salesperson, so the person who stands behind the work is in the room from the start.
That confidence comes from years on the South Side. We have remodeled Hyde Park's greystones, mansions, and lakefront co-op and condo apartments, including kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and full historic-home renovations. We know what hides behind the plaster in a 1900s greystone and how to bring a vintage co-op kitchen or bath into the present without flattening the architecture that drew people to Hyde Park in the first place.
