Our Blog
Learn a little about new construction and large scale renovations and some home design thrown in for fun! Building in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
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Cost Per Square Foot
How much will my new home cost per square foot? I want to add an addition on to my home, how much will it cost per square foot? I want to gut this whole place and rebuild it from the inside out, how much will it cost per square foot? We get multiple phone calls… [Read More]
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Which is “BETTER”?
When building custom homes you get a lot of questions from homeowners. We love questions! Lets get it right and make it fantastic! But the dreaded question? The question that makes us cringe? Which is better? Do you like this tile or that tile? Dark stained floors or natural? Granite of quartz? Which one is… [Read More]
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Cratfsmanship – it matters
Did you ever put a lot of time and effort and energy into a presentation, leave thinking you did a fantastic job, knowing the job was yours? Only you don’t get the job. And you are really surprised because you thought it went really well. Makes you think a little. We have friends that bought a… [Read More]
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Insta DETAILS
I like instagram because I can post little snippets of a tiny piece of a small detail on very big job. We are building high end luxury homes – they are a massive undertaking and take months to complete. Or we are orchestrating massive complete guts of old historic building and making them ready for 21st century… [Read More]
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Instagram…I like it!
So, I recently discovered Instagram. Well, I knew its been out there in social media land but I never looked into it much. Well, I recently started an Instgram page for Follyn Builders (https://www.instagram.com/follynbuilders/?hl=en ) and I really like it! Great way to look at ideas from all over of things that interested you. obviously – I… [Read More]
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A custom home – what will it cost me?
It happens more than you think. We get an email or a phone call or a text – I am thinking of building a new home.  Can you give me a ballpark price? The short answer? No, we really don’t have a ballpark price. Because sometimes we are talking about 2 very different ballparks, hell sometimes… [Read More]
