The biggest pieces of a custom built home or a large scale renovation is often the littlest stuff. Door hardware and faucets and baseboards (Oh my!). A truly high-end luxury home caters to every detail, and every detail is yours. You are limited only by your pocketbook – some things ain’t cheap but boy they are pretty!
Not a big fan of oak treads and painted risers? Dream a little bigger and design a stainless steel staircase with open risers that spans 3 floors. A spectacular centerpiece (literally and figuratively) in this custom single family luxury home in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood (GO CUBS!)
High end plumbing fixtures can turn an ordinary master bedroom into your own personal spa. Â This large scale tile and super modern plumbing fixtures combination keep this Wrigleyville custom home practical and elegant.
Custom millwork is a true indicator of a luxury custom home. This custom paneling was designed built and installed onsite by John at Follyn Builders and one of our talented team of finish carpenters.
Sometimes a finish is chosen not so much because a homeowner loves the item – but because it fits the overall feel of the house. Exterior light fixtures fit into the category of easy way to dress up the outside of your luxury custom home.
Every little detail counts. This custom home in the Lincoln Square neighborhood is solid masonry on a corer lot. It only needed a little piece of railing to fill this spot – but again it had to fit the feel of the rest of the house. As there were a lt of clean lines in this house – no curly wrought iron here.
Completely opposite to the simple wrought iron above – this house needed a little oomph on the exterior. And Follyn Builders delivered with a detailed, intricate and curly whirly wrought iron fence worthy of  New Orleans. Would this work everywhere? No it would not. Does it work here. Oh yes, it does!
Unlike the elaborate stainless steel dramatic staircase above, this house was more about clean lines and simple design. But simple does not have to mean boring! THis newel post tied in with the updated arts and crats feel in the Lincoln Square new home.
Throughout a well run home building or large scale renovation project there may be 5 or 6 different contractors all working at the same time. I was at one of our projects in Bronzeville last week and counted the following contractors at work: the interior doors were being delivered, the tiler setter was laying tile, the painters were stripping old wood work and the carpenters were working on the 3rd floor. And I was there to deliver about 20 ponds of grout in various colors. And the GC, he was walking around consulting with every one of them.
