Chicago Home Remodeling and Design-Build Contractor

Call our office or contact us through our website or other social platforms to schedule a complimentary onsite consultation. Within 48 hours we contact the client to schedule a property walk through with our Sales Estimator and Design Team and Architect Partner. This is our time to ask questions and make sure we are understanding the client’s vision, design, budget, and giving realistic expectations and advice. Upon finishing the initial consultation, the client will have a better understanding of our services and design retainer.

The client meets with our Design Team and Architect Partner at our showroom and design center to further discuss the design process and receive an estimate for the design fee and applicable drawings/renderings.

Our Sales Estimator and Design Team and Architect Partner will revisit your home and take an in depth look at the space, measure, and discuss any other nuances with design. This information will be used to create the drawings and 3D renderings (dependent on scope of project).

The client meets with our Design Team and Architect Partner at our showroom and design center to initiate the selection of materials and finishes. While at our showroom, the client can see and feel a wide selection of cabinetry, tile, flooring, plumbing fixtures, granite and marble, etc.

The Design Team and Architect Partner will provide drawings, material estimate with detailed selection, specifications, and mood board to the client for review, revisions, and/or a signature of acceptance.

Once the drawings and material estimate have been approved, our Sales Estimator along with our subcontractors will revisit the property to formulate a labor and rough material estimate which will then be sent to the client for review, revisions, and/or a signature of acceptance.

The client is introduced to their designated Project Manager who will be their primary point of contact through the completion of the project and onsite and in the home each day. Our Project Managers send each client daily updates with photos showing progress. We want our clients involved every step of the way. The Project Manager also facilitates obtaining permits and building/association approvals that are needed prior to commencing work.

We conduct a Pre-Construction Meeting with our subcontractors, the client, Project Manager, Sales Estimator, Designer, Architect (if applicable), and Building’s Engineer (if applicable) once all approvals have been received, proper permits have been obtained (if applicable), all paperwork has been signed, and all materials have arrived. This is the Areté way of ensuring all parties are on the same page and that our clients get to meet the team that will be in their home. We then get to work!

During the last week of the project we will prepare a punch list. We will schedule a final walk through with the client and Project Manager to ensure the punch list items have been completed and to welcome the client home!

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