Highwood
Illinois
Home renovations, kitchen and bath remodels, and residential gut rehabs in a compact Lake County community with North Shore access and strong renovation fundamentals. 18 years of Chicagoland construction experience.
Construction Services
in Highwood, Illinois
Highwood is a compact Lake County city bordered on three sides by Highland Park — a small, distinctive community with a celebrated restaurant scene, a diverse residential fabric, and a location that gives it North Shore adjacency at a more accessible price point. The city's housing stock spans modest early 20th century bungalows and frame homes to postwar construction, with some newer infill development on remaining sites. Renovation investment here is driven by long-term residents improving properties they're committed to and buyers attracted by the combination of walkable amenities and North Shore proximity.
32 Build works throughout Lake County and the North Shore corridor, delivering home renovations, kitchen and bath remodels, gut rehabs, and targeted residential updates in Highwood and adjacent communities. Highwood's housing stock — primarily 1920s through 1960s construction — is entering or past its renovation window, and the most common project types involve full systems replacement alongside the finish renovations that bring aging homes up to current standards.
Highwood's renovation market benefits from its position within Highland Park's real estate orbit — the North Shore's strong underlying values support renovation investment even in a smaller and more modestly priced community. Targeted kitchen and bath renovations, whole-house updates, and gut rehabs that fully modernize aging bungalows and frame homes are the defining project types.
Lake County Reference:Home renovations and gut rehabs completed throughout Highwood and adjacent North Shore and Lake County communities. References available upon request.
Building in
Highwood, Illinois
Highwood is a city in Lake County surrounded on three sides by Highland Park, approximately 28 miles north of downtown Chicago. The city is accessible via the Union Pacific North Metra line — which stops in Highwood — and Interstate 94.
Highwood's residential fabric is compact and dense, with bungalows and frame homes built primarily between 1910 and 1960 on relatively small lots. The former Fort Sheridan military reservation, now a residential development on the lakefront between Highwood and Highland Park, added newer custom homes to the area's housing stock.
Renovation work in Highwood involves city of Highwood building permits, which follow Lake County residential building codes. Permit review timelines are generally 2 to 4 weeks for standard residential projects.
Highwood's walkable restaurant district and North Shore location have sustained residential demand and supported ongoing renovation investment throughout the community.
Did you know
Highwood has a disproportionately celebrated restaurant scene for a city of its size — per capita, it has more acclaimed independent restaurants than nearly any community on the North Shore, a legacy of the Italian immigrant community that settled in Highwood in the early 20th century to serve Fort Sheridan's military population. The city's restaurant culture became so well established that Highwood attracted chef-driven dining long before that concept spread across the suburbs, and it remains a destination dining address for the entire North Shore. The combination of walkable restaurant access and North Shore proximity is a primary driver of Highwood's residential appeal.
Notable Streets in Neighborhood
- Sheridan Road — Highwood's primary north-south corridor — connects the city to Highland Park and the North Shore lakefront communities through the Fort Sheridan development.
- Green Bay Road — Main commercial and residential connector running through the heart of Highwood — the city's walkable restaurant district and Metra station anchor the street's activity.
- Waukegan Avenue — Interior residential street — bungalows and frame homes representative of Highwood's pre-war residential stock.
- Walker Avenue — Commercial street anchoring Highwood's celebrated restaurant row — the concentration of independent restaurants on Walker Avenue is Highwood's defining cultural identity.
- Everts Avenue — Residential connector through central Highwood — modest single-family homes and two-flats typical of the city's compact residential fabric.
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Services in Highwood, Illinois
What Does It Cost
in Highwood, Illinois?
Transparent ranges based on recent Illinois projects. Your exact cost depends on scope, materials, and conditions.
Kitchen remodel, bath renovation, or targeted multi-trade update in a Highwood bungalow or frame home.
Full gut renovation of a Highwood bungalow or postwar home — systems, kitchen, baths, and finishes throughout.
Home addition combined with a whole-house renovation, or a premium renovation in the Fort Sheridan development.
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Highwood
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Still have questions? Let's talkA home renovation in Highwood typically runs $80,000 to $260,000 depending on home size, scope, and finish level. A full gut renovation of a bungalow or frame home — new systems, kitchen, baths, and finishes — runs $100,000 to $240,000. Targeted kitchen and bath renovation runs $50,000 to $130,000.
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