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Why Is Home Remodeling with Advance Design Studio Unique?
Imagine your home completely reinvented, remarkably remodeled, within your budget, your time frame, without hassle. Sound impossible? Advance Design Studio is dedicated to making your remodeling experience positive and enjoyable, while ensuring your results are undeniably stunning.
If the idea of home remodeling sounds stressful, our “Common Sense Remodeling” process is your solution. Since 1992, Advance Design Studio has transformed homes through our unique step-by-step design-through-construction process that averts delays, avoids costly mistakes, and prevents budget overruns, keeping your project on track and on time.
Our Project Portfolio
At Advance Design, we take on home remodeling projects big and small, all while maintaining our focus of creating exceptional spaces for everyday living. We have completed hundreds of projects over nearly three decades spanning across all areas of residential construction including kitchens, baths, basements, additions, outdoor living, and specialty spaces.
Beautiful Kitchens
Today’s kitchen is the king of multi-tasking. From creating the perfect cooking oasis or an entertainment gathering place to planning for a school area for kids or a baker’s paradise, design your new kitchen with us and make the most of this centerpiece of your home.
Spa Baths
Whether it be a master suite escape, a kid’s bath, or the powder room down the hall, all the baths in your home should be highly functional and also aesthetically pleasing. Work with our experienced team to create the perfect spa-like getaway bath you’ll never want to leave!
Finished Basements
Custom design your unique lower-level space to include an enticing game room, an entertaining bar or kitchen, the family home theater, a play area for the kids, an exciting home gym, an elegant wine cellar, perfectly organized storage, or simply a place to hang out and relax! Talk to our team about what your perfect finished basement is all about!
Home Additions
When your existing space is just not enough, talk to us about ways to gain useful square footage to enhance your lifestyle. A master suite, second story addition, or a bump-out off the back. Sometimes more is just better!
Outdoor Living
Each outdoor living space can be designed and built to fit any house. Architectural design, engineering, finish selections, and fine details are all managed by our team to create the perfect 3-season room, deck, or backyard pergola that meets with your plan.
Specialty Spaces
Sometimes a special space is exactly what is needed to enhance how you live. Talk to us about a functionally beautiful laundry or mud room, custom closet, amazing fireplace wall with built-in wet bar, dog shower — or just about anything you can dream up! Specialty spaces are always in use and can make your home more functional and enjoyable.
Why Advance Design Studio?

Our People
You Want a Cohesive Team Working Together for You
We bring together a team of talented experts and home remodeling contractors from all parts of our industry under one roof. A successful home renovation doesn’t happen by accident. It can only happen when the team that is necessary to complete the project is all on the same page with a well thought-out, well-designed, and well-executed plan.
Our Process
You Want the Best Possible Project Experience
Our rigorous design-through-build process creates clearly defined objectives within a customized, pre-developed project budget. Our flexibility allows for value-engineering and assures your project can be built within predefined parameters that alleviate the common over-budget and surprise pitfalls of traditional remodeling. We call it “Common Sense” Remodeling.
Our Experience
You Deserve Focused Attention from an Experienced Team
No one wants a bad remodeling project experience. Our team utilizes nearly 30 years of renovation experience (and 100’s of years combined experience) to make your home project dream a reality. From start to finish, you’ll receive invaluable input and experience from the same team who is hands-on with your project every day.



Remodeling Can Be Scary
But It Doesn’t Have To Be
Our proven process and people are what makes Common Sense Remodeling work for you.
When it comes to home remodeling, we understand your fears. At Advance Design, a successful home renovation is the result of single-source responsibility. That means we are there throughout every stage of your home makeover to deliver on clear expectations. Our complete in-house team works to produce your project from initial ideas until the final touch is complete, all under one roof. It’s just common sense to us, which is why we call it “Common Sense Remodeling”.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration for your upcoming renovation project or searching for just the right company to partner with, our creative team is here to make your home renovation dreams come to life.
Common Sense Remodeling Blog
This is where you really get to know us! Check out what we’ve been talking about.
Maximizing Your Design-Build Experience
Regardless of project size or scope, investing in a home remodel is a big step for many homeowners, and the relationship between a homeowner and their remodeling team (...)
Home Remodeling Boom Continues in 2022
The remodeling industry faced challenges in 2021 unlike any year prior. Extreme supply chain pressure, multiple waves of material and labor cost increases and shortages, and a (...)
Our Designers Talk 2022 Home Trends
A new year brings new trends to keep an eye out for, and our designers have expert insight into past, present, and future trends. From home décor and paint to finishes (...)
30 Years of Common-Sense Remodeling
We hope that you enjoyed a nice time with friends and family during this holiday season. For us the break was both refreshing and very needed. As we turn our sights to our 30th (...)
A Glamorous Kildeer Spa Remodel
Andrew and Heather were looking to transform their existing master bath into a spa-like haven. Their existing bath was cramped and lacked the relaxing (...)
Spacious First Floor Remodel in West Dundee
Michelle and Chris were tired of living with the dysfunctional first floor in their West Dundee home. A tiny, centrally located kitchen and small study made their first (...)
You’ve Got to See the Most Unique Basement
A unique basement renovation is extremely challenging to design. After pouring through photos, they have ideas in their heads, materials, and colors that they gravitate to (...)
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