In Printer's Row, Wood Contracting handles kitchen, bathroom, and whole-home remodeling, led by a contractor with more than 30 years of hands-on experience. We remodel kitchens, bathrooms, and full lofts across the Donohue, Pontiac, Manhattan, Fisher, Franklin, Old Colony, and Duplicator Buildings and the smaller conversions along Dearborn and Plymouth Court. Bathrooms typically take 4 to 6 weeks and kitchens 6 to 10, with full-loft projects running 8 to 14. We hold Illinois GC license TGC105501, are EPA Lead-Safe certified, carry building-specific insurance, and handle condo board approval and freight elevator scheduling for you.
Printer's Row Remodeling At a Glance
If you are weighing a loft remodel here, this is the quick version before we ever meet:
- Kitchen remodels: $15,000 to $80,000+, driven mostly by finish level and whether a converted-era plumbing stack has to move.
- Bathroom remodels: $12,000 to $55,000+, from a simple powder room to a full primary bathroom rebuild.
- Timelines: plan on 4 to 6 weeks for a bathroom, 6 to 10 for a kitchen, and 8 to 14 for a full-loft renovation.
- Condo board review: every building here has one, and approval can run from 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the board's meeting calendar.
- Building access: a certificate of insurance at your building's required limits, plus freight elevator and loading dock time blocks and set work hours. We file all of it.
- The loft factor: timber columns stay put, concrete floors resist new drain runs, and press-era stacks were never meant for bathrooms. We map this before demolition.
- Credentials: Illinois GC license TGC105501, EPA Lead-Safe certified, fully insured.
- First step: a no-cost consultation with Dillon, usually within the same week.
Why Printer's Row Homeowners Trust Wood Contracting
If you are planning a kitchen or bathroom remodel in Printer's Row, the contractor you choose matters more than any single design decision. These are converted printing-factory lofts, and the right contractor reads the building first: what the heavy timber structure will and will not allow, where the converted-era plumbing actually runs, and what your condo board will require before work begins. That is the work we have built our reputation on. Roughly 90% of our projects come from referrals and repeat clients, which is the clearest signal we can give you that homeowners here trust us with their homes.
Every project starts with Dillon Wood himself at the consultation, not a salesperson, so you are talking to the person accountable for the result from the first meeting. Just as important, we speak the language of Printer's Row condo boards and building engineers, which is what keeps a loft remodel from stalling before it starts.
That confidence comes from time spent in exactly these buildings. We have completed dozens of kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling projects across South Loop and its Printer's Row loft conversions, from the Donohue and Pontiac to the Manhattan, Fisher, Franklin, Old Colony, and Duplicator Buildings, including full-unit condo renovation work. We know how these heavy timber structures behave once the finishes come off, and we plan around that reality instead of being surprised by it.
