We just finished our third renovation project with Glenbrook Remodeling, and we are very happy with…read moreour new basement! We had remodeled our master and hall bathrooms with Glenbrook Remodeling so we were excited to come back to them with our basement remodel. They took our dark, scary, 80s wood-paneled basement and turned it into a light, modern, and inviting space where we actually want to spend time. As we saw with our bathrooms, the design, craftsmanship, and communication were all impeccable and gave us great confidence throughout the project. We love working with Alex, Mike, and Renata.

We recently finished a remodel of our utility room/ mud room with Glenbrook Remodeling. It was a…read moreflawless experience from beginning to end. Great design, great workmanship! So easy to work with. Beautiful end product. It is now a stylish and functional utility room/ mud room. Thank you Renata, Alex & Mike and the team!

John and his team Renovated our kitchen and filled with a back deck back in 2018. They did a…read moreterrific job, kept under budget, and stayed on schedule - I'm pretty remarkable stuff in this business. In addition to ending up with a beautiful kitchen, we were very pleased with John's availability, demeanor, and commitment. That's just one example of the lengths to which he and his team will go, they built us a temporary kitchenette while the work was going on, sparing us the expense and hassle of having to move out or order delivery throughout the process. All in all, Just Builders is wonderful.

Just Builders is the best! I found them to be honest, kind, and hardworking…read more We did a complete gut rehab last summer of our basement. We had water issues before so we added drain tile, aluminum wall studs, water resistant drywall, ect. We upgraded to an energy star hvac system. We moved the laundry room. We put in four large egress windows. We added two legal to Evanston code bedrooms. We added a family room. We added a full bathroom. It came out beautifully!!!! We also have not had a drop of water this whole spring or summer. (Even through those huge storms!) Response time was fast. Explanations were thorough. And in regards to Natalie......I think that she was new to having projects done in her house. Seeing as she did not have a time table, yes, it is logical to finish roof construction and framing and other such projects. Ron was showing respect for his crew. Oh, and regarding Ron's appearance? He is a Mennonite carpenter. So.....yeah.....he has a pretty big beard.

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.

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.

Our family room and kitchen need a paint refresh along with some pictures hung and 2 new doors to…read morebe hung. We contacted Keith Lukes and he gave a quote for the painting. The quote explained everything to us line by line. The painter, Mauricio, came on time every day and always cleaned up before leaving. The carpenter made sure the doors were hung perfectly plumb, and our pictures centered over our couch

See the photo for his work . No words to articulate this contractor . Hire at your own risk !read more

I should have guessed when I tried to schedule with him, and he asked me to remind him the…read moreafternoon before. I sent him pictures of the jobs we wanted him to do, which he acknowledged, saying that it looked like a full day's worth of work. I reminded him the afternoon before, as requested, and he then told me he had another job in the morning. He then texted me the morning of and asked if he could bring a helper, doubling the hourly rate but getting more done more quickly. I approved (stupidly). He then showed up and asked me if they were going to be working inside or outside (all of the jobs I had texted him about and sent pictures for were obviously inside). I walked him through it, and he told me he could do all of the work. Fast forward to when the work was completed (poorly). My wife called him to complain about the way his guys left things, and he started trying to pit my wife and I against each other. He changed his story several times--despite the fact that most of our communication was via text, so I had records of it--and tried to paint me as the bad guy to my wife. To his credit, he wound up coming out to try to fix some of the problems himself. However, he wasn't able to fix much of it the day he came, and he offered to get us a discounted quote on fixing the rest of it. We declined. He explained on this last day (after the fact) that it is difficult to exactly match paint colors (for covering patches he did on the walls) and that he wasn't able to tack down the area of carpet we had asked him to on the first day because he isn't a carpet-layer. Had he explained these two things upfront--and had he not engaged in all of the emotionally manipulative b.s.--this review may have been different. As it is, I wouldn't recommend hiring him for any more-involved work. If you need a cabinet fixed or bathroom hardware mounted, he's probably a fine candidate. For anything more complicated, my experience leads me to recommend going in a different direction. Photos are of "completed" work.

We used Follyn builders for a whole house renovation and addition to our 1920s dutch colonial. They…read morewere great to work with and extremely helpful throughout the process. John gave us great recommendation along the way and the project came in within budget. We highly recommend them.

I highly recommend Follyn Builders! I cannot say enough about how thrilled we are with the…read morestunning renovation to our 1910 brick 2-flat. Follyn created a "duplex down" turning a previously unfinished part of the basement into a family room, and remodeled the offices for our family business. The project also involved removing and rebuilding our rear porches and enclosed stairwell, as well as remodeling a bathroom, adding a powder room, and gutting and relaying our kitchen and our daughter's bedroom. We used an architect who created great plans, but John's vision and creativity have given us so much more usable space, and beautifully carried our dreams to fruition. We are so glad we entrusted our project to John. His honesty and work ethic are rare. Our architect recommended him initially. Her words were "I think you will find him quite capable." She was so right. We have this old house, and any unusual findings were nothing that gave John pause. To create a legal duplex, we needed to separate our stairwell from the 2nd floor apartment, and move all electrical panels out of the basement. Our gorgeous custom iron spiral staircase and rolling-shutter door concealing electrical panels and meters accomplished this. He tore off our old frame, vinyl sided, 2-level back porch and stairwell structure, and rebuilt it with a brick base and durable Hardie Board siding. The former crawl space was excavated to give us a mud room, huge coat closet, and an under-the-stair storage room. Our porch, which we use quite a bit could not increase in size, but still needed to make better use of the space. This was achieved by eliminating a door and suspending the grill off of the custom iron rails. Our basement was dug down to give us another 12-14 inches of ceiling height-- not easy to do with our shared driveway, no alley, and horrible parking in Lakeview East. This involved supporting our home with temporary columns and putting footings deeper and extending our iron columns to meet the new footings, adding radiant floor heating-- and then pouring concrete. John's expertise in sewers, drains, and a pumps will keep us safe from flooding. All structural elements of our home were inspected and repaired where necessary. Our home is over 100 years old, and is poised to last at least that long going forward. Our kitchen was completely remodeled-flipping the old cooking and dining areas. This gave us two new beautiful and better functioning spaces. All of the cabinets are customwood and were very competitively priced. Follyn Builders has a vast list of excellent sources that they go to for materials and custom work. Their sources offer sharp pricing for quality work. John selects and works with a wonderful team of subcontractors. They are all pros whom I enjoyed being around when I was home. Even still, if something wasn't quite right, John would point it out to us first and then have it corrected. He had our backs every step of the way. Ann does an incredible job with materials management and all of the behind-the-scenes action like parking permits, etc. On the very rare occasion where John is not available, Ann is also very capable on-site as well. Whether she is supervising an installation, or prioritizing the tasks of subcontractors to keep the work flow efficient, she is an experienced pro. I could go on... I checked references before hiring Follyn and heard similar praise. Then, I walked a Follyn project that was nearing completion and was totally sold. I was completely blown away by the level of craftsmanship from the multi-piece molding and custom built-ins to the state-of-the-art technology that today's homes demand. Friends have asked me if the stress of construction got to me. My answer is always that I had the time of my life, and although I am excited to have our home completed, I miss the activity, and the excitement of seeing the conversion at the hands of people who are so talented. Five stars is not nearly enough for Follyn Builders and Developers!

Danny and his team did a complete model of our two bathrooms, as well as our hardwood floors. His…read moreinitial estimate for timing and cost was spot-on, and his attention to detail was outstanding. Moreover, he would always take the time to go over every last detail or concern you will undoubtedly run into during a project, and would always come up with a solution to a problem. This work was done almost a year ago, and the bathrooms and floors look amazing and have had no issues to date. Highly recommended.

I did a big job with Denny and his team about ten years ago. He was prompt and did a great job…read morewith good prices. He was honest and fair and always returned calls. We recommended him to do a friend's kitchen and she was very happy with the work. Something must have happened in the meantime. He came to my new house to do an estimate for varied work we needed done. He put in the estimate work we didn't ask for. I asked to meet with him so we could update the estimate. He became non-communicative. Instead of being honest and saying sorry too busy or can't do it he just left us hanging. In the beginning he gave us one word answers by text, but then just stopped communicating. If he had been honest and told us he couldn't do it that would have been better, but to leave us hanging is not acceptable.

We hired Kolin Group to renovate our West Loop loft and couldn't be happier with the results. From…read morestart to finish, Mike and the entire team was professional, communicative, and genuinely easy to work with. They took the time to walk us through every step of the process, making sure we understood what to expect in terms of timeline and cost -- no surprises, no stress. The quality of the craftsmanship speaks for itself. Every detail was handled with care, and the finished result truly transformed our home. They were respectful of our space, kept things as tidy as possible throughout the project, and stayed on schedule. If you're looking for a reliable, skilled remodeling contractor in the Chicago area, look no further. Kolin Group has earned a customer for life. Thank you!

Mike and Kolin Group do outstanding work. I had a large remodeling job to tackle in my 1100 sq…read more ft. condo that included: All new floors, all new kitchen, new master bath and many built-ins throughout. I had designers working on that side of things and Michael worked very closely with them throughout the process to ensure that everything turned out beautifully. Also, the excellent work Mike does comes at a fair and reasonable price. He is super responsive to any outreach and committed to the highest quality. I just can't recommend Mike and Kolin Group enough to anyone - great job and THANK YOU for everything. Just don't get too busy to take on my last step - guest bath remodel in 2020!