Riverwoods, IL
Riverwoods is about 29 miles from our Spring Grove shop, roughly 40 minutes. We build kitchens, built-ins, closets and vanities for its houses, modern and traditional, and we have finished work in Deer Park, Glenview and Northbrook nearby.
A modern flat-panel kitchen we built in Schaumburg. The kind of work, not a Riverwoods job.
Riverwoods calls itself a "woodlands preservation community with a semi-rural character." It incorporated in 1959 and covers about four square miles. Most streets are private, kept up by about 30 homeowners associations, and a permit is needed even to remove a dead tree. The village is known for modernist houses: Edward Humrich designed more than 40 here, and its 2025 Modernist Homes Tour showed restored houses by Humrich and by Keck & Keck. Humrich's first house in the village (1947) has exposed brick, wood beams and floor-to-ceiling windows on just under two acres.
What a modern house in the woods asks of cabinets:
Our own Riverwoods job was in a traditional house (below).
The village's permit page lists permits for renovations, interior demolition and all electrical, plumbing and mechanical changes. It does not mention cabinets or kitchens by name, so a kitchen with new circuits or moved plumbing will need one. (Village of Riverwoods, as read 2026-10-27; confirm with the building department.) If a permit is needed, we pull it ourselves. Tell us if your street is private, so we can plan the delivery.
A wood-grain closet wall we built in Deer Park, nearby.
Our Riverwoods work is a kitchen, built-ins and the bathroom vanities in a traditional house, with the trim. For houses here we also build:
The village runs from the Des Plaines River and the Ryerson Conservation Area to the associations further in; its named communities include Hiawatha Woods, Thorngate and Meadowlake. We serve all of Riverwoods. Nearby, see our pages for Lake Forest, Kildeer and Long Grove, or all the towns we serve. We also serve Deerfield, Highland Park and Northbrook.
Yes. Flat doors and frameless boxes, in solid colors or a wood-look veneer, are our specialty. See how we build cabinets.
Yes. We build in walnut, white oak and the other species available here. Finish samples are at the shop, by appointment.
Yes. Our Riverwoods job was a kitchen, built-ins and vanities in a traditional house.
Yes. Tell us if your street is private and what your association asks, and we plan the delivery around it.
A floor-to-ceiling pantry wall on a solid wall can hold what upper cabinets would hold, and an island takes the rest.
Edward Humrich designed more than 40 houses in Riverwoods. Tell us what the house has now and what stays; flat doors, long, low runs and stained walnut or white oak suit that style.
Family owned. Insured and licensed where required. We build in our own shop and install the work ourselves.
Homeowners: tell us about the space and what has to fit in it. Photos help us see it before the visit.
General contractors, interior designers, developers and architects: send a bid inquiry and we price from your drawings.
