welcome to follyn builders

Follyn Builders is a family owned company specializing in high-end single family homes and condominiums in the greater Chicagoland area since 2001. We have are proud to be a home builder in Chicago neighborhoods like Lakeview, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square and North Center as well as nearby suburbs like Park Ridge, Glenview and Wilmette. We are proud to be a Chicago home builder, bringing our integrity and professionalism to every single family home, condominium and office we build and renovate in and around Chicago.

Service is our hallmark, from site selection to design and material selection, Follyn Builders believes that good communication is the corner stone to an amazing finished product and an astounding custom home. When you call, you will speak to a decision maker, not a message taker!  

Building custom homes in Chicago is our focus and our passion.  The role of general contractor of your dream is a role we take seriously, we know there are many general contractors available around Chicago -- we want to be the choice as general contractor of your custom home.

In keeping with our desire to be kind to earth while still creating homes of timeless style and sophistication we try to implement green building practices whenever possible including: low-E windows, spray foam insulation, geo-thermal heating and cooling systems, energy star appliances and building material recycling. We use the latest in design technology and green building practices, enabling us to be on the forefront of innovation. Our projects vary from simple to simply spectacular.  

Green building is a nice catch phrase - we try to incorporate green building practices into everything we do.  There are many many things that can be done to make a construction site a place for green building.  Starting with recycling of building materials from a demolition, all the way through low VOC paints and finishes.  Green building shouldn't be a catch phrase it is a way of doing business.  

We are a home builder with a record of building homes of distinction incorporating the latest technology, the highest quality and the most timeless design.  

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new homes...

We are one of Chicago's leading builders of select, unique, single family homes, condominiums, 2-flat to single family home conversions, single family home renovations and single family home additions! Every individual home is the most important home - because it is your home.  Our goal has always been and continues to be; to build incredible homes with beautiful design, outstanding function and unparalleled quality.  Contact us to build your home, as your general contractor we will help you realize your dream of a home that is exactly what YOU want.

We do NOT follow the cookie-cutter method of home building, you know the homes we mean, they look exactly the same as the next door neighbors except for the siding color.  Not the houses we build.  We believe that neighborhoods are built one home at a time and Chicago is above all, a city of neighborhoods.

We are proud to offer our unique designs and services as a home builder and general contractor in these Chicagoland neighborhoods:

Lincoln Square, Lincoln Park, Wrigleyville, Roscoe Village, Gold Coast, St. Bens, North Center, Ravenswood, DePaul, Old Irving Park, Lakeview, Old Town, Near North, River North, West Loop, Ukrainian Village, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Andersonville, Streeterville, Bell School Chicago, Coonley School Chicago, Hawthorne School Chicago, Blaine School Chicago, Audubon Elementary School Chicago and Burley Elementary School Chicago.

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We love to build homes in Chicago, but we realize city life is not for everyone.  So when you are looking to build your dream home in the suburbs, call us.  We build homes and act as YOUR general contractor.  The same attention to detail and unsurpassed quality that we pour into every single family home in Chicago will be brought to your suburban Chicago lot.

We are home builders, we love to build homes.  We are also general contractors, we will be happy to work with your architect - either way we get to build homes.  We love what we do every day.  We want to work with you and build your home in your community. Contact us and realize your home building or home renovation dream.

We are also available to contract in these fine Chicago Suburban Communities:

Park Ridge, Glenview, Wilmette, Winnetka, Evanston, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Oak Park, Northbrook, Northfield, Skokie, Deerfield, Kenilworth, Lake Bluff, Highwood and Hinsdale.

If your particular neighborhood, school district or town is not on this list, please give us a call, we love to explore new parts of town, contact us!

renovations...

Love your community and your location but you have outgrown your current home? Love the exterior of your home but not the chopped-up floor plan? Beautiful, graceful old home with no closet space and too few electrical outlets?  Need to work from home, but the dark basement, next to the furnace not cutting it?  We can work on your old home to new home renovation.  

Stay in place in your ideal location - and make your home ideal as well. We have worked with folks that have more than doubled their square footage (WOW!) and folks that have converted a small, attached garage to a home office (wow in its own way).  Either way, the end result is the same - your old home that feels like a brand new home!  Truly the best of both worlds.  We have worked for years to develop our home building and general contracting skills -- let us put those skills to work for you.  With Follyn Builders building your home and acting as your general contractor you get things doe quicker and less expensively than tackling that project by yourself.

We are happy to work our renovation magic in any of the Chicago neighborhood we mentioned above and all of the surrounding suburbs.  Contact us today and we can start to build your dream home.