Absolutely recommend Joe and Real Exteriors. From the moment I called for a quote to the end of the…read moresiding installation it has been nothing but a pleasant experience. Communication from them is excellent! Very professional, great quality, and friendly. Any questions I had even while he was working on site were answered with care. I appreciate that Joe was always there and was the one we communicated with and wasn't just brushed off to an answering service. Very very beautiful work as you can see in the photos! Thank you so much for everything will definitely be returning for new windows in the future!

Real Exteriors is a great company, Joe the project manager, and all the staff. Could not have…read moreasked for a better company to work with. Very profession and pleasant staff. They installed my siding on the house and garage, 8 windows and 1 doors. Excellent Workmanship and Quality product. Great pricing. Always available to answer all of my questions. Always cleaned work area at end work day. I have had many comments on how nice my house looks. So happy I found them. I am having them do the rest of my windows. I would recommend them 100%.

I highly recommend Mike Bambouyani with Yamane Development LLC. Mike is a top notch highly detailed…read moreand knowledgable professional contractor and licensed plumber. Mike went above and beyond to help us when our previous contractor completely botch the job, took our money and left the job site a complete disaster. Mike takes the time to review all aspects of the job. He went with us to pick out finishes, he is knowledgable with every product available and is able to walk you through the pros and cons. He has a great eye for finishes and product detail. Mike does a large portion of the work himself, his long time crew is incredible clean and conscious of being in your home and treating it with the upmost respect. Mike helped finish our kitchen remodel, he had to demo and redo 2 bathrooms, a primary bathroom and a 2nd bathroom, he had to fix a lot of plumbing and electrical work along with tile and trim work. He has an excellent fabricator as well. Mike has been in the business a long time and it shows through his extensive knowledge on construction and material. He uses a detailed construction app that helped him and us track every step of the project. Mike makes himself available even after the project is complete to check on things and make adjustments when needed. I would recommend him for any construction project you are considering, large projects and small, he does the job correctly. A+++. Thank you Mike!!!!

Mike from Yamane Development and his crew did an amazing job renovating my bathroom and…read moretransforming a powder room into a full bath. He and his Team came up with a creative design to accommodate all of my needs in first-floor living. The team were experts in their areas, complete professionals, and did well to deliver the project on time. I highly recommend Yamane Development for any new construction or remodeling projects.

Future Windows Inc. did an amazing job transforming the look of our home. We weren't sure what to…read moreexpect with buying new windows, but Joe takes the time to explain the process and gives you ideas on what fits best with your home. When he first mentioned putting in a bow window in our living room, we couldn't visualize the difference. Joe explained how it would make the room look bigger and it was like "having and addition added without actually building another room." He was exactly right, we can't imagine not having the bow window. It made the front of our home more elegant and the interior room brighter and more appealing. The windows felt like an investment versus a cost. I think many people get stuck with the big corporate stores because they think it will save them money, but don't assume that. Future Windows will give you the best pricing up front. Joe personalizes the entire experience and we found him very easy to work with. Every time we pull up to our home, we mention how nice the windows look. So before falling for some printed marketing piece from the corporate giants, stop in to Future Windows for a personalized experience.

Absolutely great. Quality work. Customer focused. Highly recommend Joe. He cares and it shows in…read moreeverything he does.

Arete Renovators was completely wonderful to work with. You hear a lot of horror stories about…read moreChicago contractors, and I can say with 100% certainty that working with Arete is the exact OPPOSITE of those horror stories. My contractor, Ned, and his team saved my sanity this year, as my initial bathroom remodel turned into a bathroom remodel PLUS gut rehab of the kitchen due to a flood in my high-rise building. More details below, but the tl;dr version is the Arete team, led by Ned, was easy to communicate with; had great systems in place for keeping track of everything that was going on; deftly navigated the challenges of working in my high-rise condo while a major riser project was under way at the same time; and gave me a fantastic finished product in exactly the time frame they had promised. I honestly cannot recommend them highly enough. I initially hired Arete just to update my small bathroom in my 1-bed, 1-bath condo in a high-rise. From the minute I met Ned, I knew he listened to me, understood what I wanted and knew which questions to ask to make sure the end result was exactly what I was hoping for. Arete's initial estimate came in a little higher than the other companies I got estimates from, but I had a good feeling about their systems and their great communication, and I am SO GLAD I went with them. When the Arete team came out for the initial walk-through of the bathroom after I hired them, Arete's owner was with them. While he was in my unit, he noticed a significant amount of damage in the kitchen from a flood a few weeks earlier, damage that had been completely missed by a vendor sent out by my insurance company. He encouraged me to contact the insurance company again and request the proper insurance vendors come out on site to investigate. Those investigators eventually discovered a huge amount of water damage and mold behind the walls, which necessitated a gut demo of the kitchen. If the Arete team had not noticed the telltale signs of this damage, I would have never known to push back on the insurance company for additional services, and I would have been living in an unsafe environment as a result. Then, when the insurance vendors gave me the runaround and claimed they couldn't rebuild the walls in my unit for at least three months, Arete agreed to step in and complete the work, and it was done within a week. Then they helped me upgrade my countertops as well. At the same time, they were diligently completing the bathroom remodel (the initial reason I hired them). Throughout that process, they effectively communicated the timeline, contacted me with any hiccups, made sure they got approval for any changes, talked me through the choices, handled all the logistics without my having to do anything (they even picked up some of the the supplies I ordered and stored them for me until they were needed!). They were just generally fantastic to work with. They finished the bathroom in the 5-week timeline they had initially anticipated in their estimate to me. I am SO happy with how the bathroom turned out. Their work was impeccable. So, so grateful for Arete, and for my beautiful new kitchen and bathroom!

I tend to put off my home renovation projects just because how difficult and stressful it is, to…read morework with contractors. Working with Arete for my bathroom renovation, was a refreshing change and a delightful experience. From start to finish, everything was delivered and executed as promised and in fact, ahead of schedule in some cases. Ivana provided excellent guidance for material selection and overall design. Marina, Luis and crew were excellent and worked really hard to finish the construction part on time. Overall, Arete will be my "Go to" company for any future renovation project. And, lastly, my dog loves their crew :)

an hour ago Positive: Professionalism, Punctuality, Quality,…read moreResponsiveness, Value We received multiple estimates, and decided to go with DesignFirst Builders for numerous reasons. Promptness, Showroom, the amount of different types of cabinets, counters, tiles, flooring and more. They also had numerous prices and quality from low to high depending on the cost of the addition to which build. From the start to finish of the project we dealt with multiple architects, designer's and project managers. Anytime we called or left a voice message we were contacted within the hour. Lastly I want to give a shout out to our project manager, ( Rick Divito ). Rick went above and beyond from the begining to the finish of our addition to make sure everything was perfect. If you want your project to be perfect I highly recommend using Designfirst Builders. They are the best !

I would give zero stars but it makes you at least give one star…read more Do not use them they will take forever to finish the job. I beliv they are running a Ponzi scheme of a company, or at least that is what it appears to be with the amount of work they are getting done around here. It seems like they used our money to get their bigger clients' jobs done and not our job. The amount of work they have finish in the past five months could have been done in 4 or 5 weeks. There have not shown up to work for muliple weeks, and when the do show up it is one or two days and they only get one thing done. Don't fall for the "you need to pay us money at differen phases" and then they don't show up. They claim this doesn't usually happen but they are NOT doing anything to get things done any faster. They continue to tell us someone is coming to do such and such work and NOBODY shows up.

Did a great job on finishing our laundry room and building out a storage area in the basement. On…read moretime, professional and reliable. After having had numerous contractors in over the years, it was refreshing to be able to work with someone who delivered on what they promised without any hassle. We will happily use them again in the future for other projects.

Unfortunately the output of the work did not earn my 5 stars. I contracted for (1) wall / ceiling…read morepainting, (2) a new door installation for bathroom (3) flooring work for ~500sqft in my studio. The company did a good job in (1) and (2). But when it comes to the flooring work, a few things happened: a. The majority of my purchased laminate materials was wasted due to installation challenges resulted from uneven subfloors: Before project started, I explicitly confirmed with the company on the product I intended to purchase and received the thumbs up. When my original carpet was removed, the contractor quickly found out that my subfloor was uneven, which present challenges to installation. With two attempts using almost all the materials, we concluded the product was not viable unless we either level the floor. That decision could have been made earlier b. The vinyl installation was suboptimal: Then I suggested I go together to pick a more flexible vinyl product with the contractor. As you can see in the picture, the installation was sub-optimal. The contractor attempted to float the vinyl but multiple pieces popped up after installation. Then an attempt to glue down some of the pieces was pursued. What you see on the picture was the outcome. At this point, this project has started since two months ago. I do not know what else can be done, nor do I want to push for another cycle of reinstallation so I closed the project. The other day, I walked in the new ORD airport pedestrian walkway. The vinyl planks there were well installed despite the fact the ORD subfloor was not even either. Typically, I'd expect the output of a residential project to be higher quality than commercial space, presumably due to smaller space. Am I missing something? I appreciate the hard work but I really cannot give thumbs up to the output. This is an investment property. I don't even know how my future renters would value the home improvement after spent more than five thousand dollars on it.

Professional. Flexible. Accommodating. Very fair pricing. Yes, I can go on…read more We hired Incredible for a significant scope of work in our home and they PERFORMED! ..... so well that we called them back for another smaller renovation. Thank you, Incredible.

I had an awful experience with IBI. The entire project was mismanaged (3 different project managers…read morein a 6 month period) with poor communication, poor workmanship, and an owner (Tony) who would rather battle his clients than right any wrongdoing by his company. We had them do three different areas of tilework; kitchen backsplash, powder room floor, and a 225 sq ft sunroom. All three areas had to be redone as the workmanship was such a poor quality. I had to hire a separate company to fix the powder room floor after IBI botched the job twice (see white mosaic tile picture). The kitchen backsplash tile spacing was extremely uneven (the installer used torn pieces of construction paper for spacers) and had to be ripped out and reinstalled. The tile spacing in the sun room (10" dark gray hexagon tiles) was off by as much as .5" in places and tiles had to be removed and reinstalled. The grout color was mixed incorrectly and way lighter than it was supposed to be. On top of all that, the charged us more than double industry standard for the work. We eventually had to take them to arbitration to receive credits that were owed. Almost all of the work was subcontracted. The only work that IBI actually did was install new cabinets. The kitchen was gutted and their "designer" created a layout that could not fit a standard sized refrigerator. They did not realize this until everything was done and the fridge didn't fit in the space allotted. We were left with a damaged fridge (dented by IBI in the moving process - another matter that was settled in arbitration) that was sticking out 3 feet into our kitchen for months while we battled to get the issue corrected. They eventually had to rip out the cabinets and modify the design so that we could have a standard sized fridge. Save yourself a major headache and avoid Incredible Builders. Hire someone else who can do the job right the first time. Also, be cautious of the positive reviews that are sure to follow this one. Tony has been known to hassle customers who had an ok experience and pressure them to write positive reviews to save face for the company. If you want to get a true glimpse of who you'd be dealing with, check out the complaint section on the Better Business Bureau. Slam dunk?

Georgij did a FANTASTIC JOB! We have been meaning to put up a bathroom cabinet and medicine cabinet…read morefor months, and we got so lucky we found GKPro on Yelp. He put up the cabinets exactly as I liked them and the project was completed in under an hour. I am already going to recommend his services to everyone I know! Thank you again Georgij!!

The restoration of our old oak furniture looks incredible! Great service and very professional and…read morefriendly. Would definitely recommend to others.