Halden & RowePlan your renovation
A gabled house at dusk, windows lit, with a stone chimney and a deep porch.

Plan your renovation.Before the visit.

Set the year the house was built, the rooms in the work, and how far you want to go. The range is drawn here, in the browser.

Book a free walkthrough

A walk-through within seven days. A written assessment in three weeks.

1924

1880Tudor1950

House style

Rooms in the work

Mark only what this job includes.

How far

Renovate

$890k–$1.73M

7–13 months, drawn as the five layers.

Estimate. Your free visit confirms it. Not a loan offer. Renovation loans are arranged through partner lenders after the visit. We do not lend.

Tudor, 1924. the kitchen, 2 baths, 4 bedrooms, the basement, and whole-house systems.

  1. Foundation4–8 wk
  2. Structure4–8 wk
  3. Systems6–11 wk
  4. Walls8–13 wk
  5. Finishes9–15 wk
A room opened to the studs, with cable, a window, and the old oak floor still down.

What usually hides.

  • Knob-and-tube

    Cloth wiring buried in the plaster. It is not a patch. It is a new service.

  • Balloon framing

    Studs that run from the sill past the floors. A fire, or a remodel, travels in that cavity.

  • Lead paint

    On the sash, the stair, and the casings. We test before anyone sands.

  • Galvanized pipes

    Supply lines that have narrowed to a trickle, often all the way to the street.

A two-storey library with a balcony of shelves, leather chairs, and a chess table.

What we would likely keep.

  • The stair

    Newel, treads, and the rail, if the structure under them is sound.

  • Leaded casements

    We reglaze a sash that still holds its pattern. We do not swap it for a new unit.

  • Plaster mouldings

    Where the keys still hold, the profile stays. New plaster is run to that profile, not to a catalog.

  • Old-growth oak floors

    Often under vinyl or a 1970s parquet. We lift the later floor before we talk about new boards.

The visit

Book a free walkthrough.

The answers from the planner are below, and you can change them. We come to the house within seven days. A written assessment follows in three weeks.

(847) 555-0186Mon–Fri 8am–5pm CT

2 years on the workmanship. 10 years on the structure.

They came on a Thursday, opened a cupboard, and told us the galvanized was the real budget. The letter matched what they had said in the kitchen.

Paul, Wilmette

The range on the page was a range. The visit did not invent a second number.

Susan, Winnetka

One lead, and a walk-through inside a week. We knew which plaster they meant to keep before anyone drew.

Robert, Lake Forest
The house, as planned

Nothing is sent from this concept site. The note stays in this browser.

Where we work

Seven towns. No metro blob.

Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest.

(847) 555-0186 · Mon–Fri 8am–5pm CT · studio@haldenrowe.example

Keep the bones.Live in the house you meant.

Plan your renovation

A walk-through within seven days. A written assessment in three weeks.