Uber Haus: Quality. Integrity. Experience.
We Don’t Just Renovate. We Resurrect Architecture.
La Grange has more than a thousand buildings in its historic district, most of them built between the arrival of the railroad in the 1870s and 1930.
You can spot the different eras from the sidewalk. Tall houses with turrets and wraparound porches are Queen Annes. Low brick homes with a bay window out front are bungalows. The boxy two-and-a-halfs under a hipped roof are foursquares.
Inside, a lot of them have the same DNA: plaster over lath, old-growth lumber, solid framing and floor plans designed for a very different way of living.
La Grange Park came along later, and many of those houses were built differently. Charles Joern built throughout the village beginning in the 1930s using concrete, cinder brick and steel construction inspired by commercial buildings of the period. People still call them Joern homes.
If you own one, you know how solid it is. Renovating one starts with understanding how it was put together.
That is the kind of work we do.
Über Haus is a design-build renovation firm with the design and building team working together from the beginning. Designer, architect and lead carpenters are involved before construction starts, so what gets designed is grounded in how the house is actually built.
We have spent twenty-five years working on older homes.
The goal is not to erase what is there. It is to make the house work for the way you live now.
Open the kitchen. Bring daylight deeper into the house. Give everyone somewhere to gather. Add the bathroom the house always needed.
Keep the character.
Make the house better.
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We design and build renovations on houses that were not built yesterday. Whether it’s one room or the whole floor plan, the same team draws it and builds it.
Design/Build Renovations
One team draws it and one team builds it, from first drawing to final walkthrough.
Basement Remodeling
The most cost effective square footage in the house, because the walls and the roof are already paid for.
Kitchen Remodeling
The room the house actually runs on, laid out for the way you really cook.
Bathroom Renovations
Heated floors, real water pressure, and light at the mirror that works.
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Why Choose Uber Haus?
One team from first drawing to final walkthrough
Designer, architect and lead carpenters all in house
Twenty-five years on hundred-year-old homes
Frequently asked questions
Über Haus is a design-build renovation firm in La Grange, Illinois. We design and build kitchens, bathrooms, basements, porches and whole-home renovations in La Grange, La Grange Park, Western Springs, Brookfield, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Riverside and the surrounding western suburbs of Chicago. Uber Haus and Über Haus are the same firm.
La Grange, La Grange Park, Western Springs, Brookfield, Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Riverside, Countryside, Indian Head Park, Burr Ridge, Westchester and Oak Brook. Most of our work is within a few miles of La Grange, and most of it is on houses built before 1960.
Mostly homes built between the 1870s and the 1950s. In La Grange that means Queen Annes, bungalows and foursquares in and around the historic district. In La Grange Park it means Joern homes and the postwar houses around them.
Design-build means one firm handles both the design and the construction. Our interior designer, architect and lead carpenters are all in house, so the drawings and the work come from the same team and there is one point of accountability instead of two.
That depends on the scope, and the honest answer before drawings exist is that nobody knows. The schedule gets built alongside the design, so you have a real one before any work starts.
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We design and build renovations on homes built a century ago, in La Grange, La Grange Park and the surrounding western suburbs. One team, from the first drawing through final production.
