who we are

McBride Housewrights is a full service carpentry, woodworking and contracting company, based in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood and serving the greater Chicagoland area.

Our extensive background in traditional construction techniques is balanced by our penchant for constantly improving our methods of work when new materials and equipment make it possible. This has enabled us to specialize in the care and improvement of vintage homes.

Dedication to craftsmanship and a conscientious attention to detail run deep in our work, and in the character of our company. While we are always looking for ways to improve the quality, durability and timeliness of our work, we are also looking for ways to reduce our impact on the environment—and reduce the disruption that home projects can impose on your household.

Scroll down for a sampling of past work, and please contact us when you’d like to discuss the repair, remodeling or restoration of your own home: nathan@mcbridehousewrights.com

Two Questions:

Whether we are repairing a rotted front porch, remodeling a bathroom, or designing and building custom furniture to suit your home, we remain focused on these two questions:

1. What does the customer want? There’s no substitute for listening carefully…by the time we enter the “design” phase of a design/build project, we have a thorough understanding of the form and function you’re looking for. Then it’s our turn to talk: we will recommend elements of our past projects that may interest you, and help you place your project into the aesthetic and historical context of your home.

2. What does the house want? Thorough study, and years of field experience with classic American homes in New England, the Pacific Northwest—and now Chicagoland—has helped us learn how to make instinctive decisions about what’s right for a given home, instead of applying a cookie-cutter approach that winds up looking, and working, wrong. And when instinct alone isn’t enough, we hit the books. We have those kind of books.