Chicago Home Renovation

Just the Ten of Us – Downers Grove Storage Galore

With kids coming and going and a busy household to support, this family needed their home to work harder and feel more cohesive. LivCo was tasked with modernizing the layout, improving flow, and creating smarter storage throughout—ultimately rethinking major spaces to deliver a fresh, functional, and beautifully connected interior.

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With some kids out of the house and off to college, and some still at home, this wonderful and large family was ready for some interior updates, providing more usable spaces and more efficient storage. In typical LivCo fashion, a back stairway was identified as a limiting factor in the planning, and was eliminated to open up the kitchen and expand storage opportunities.

With the stair gone, we then explored opportunities for replanned bathrooms both upstairs and down. Three bathrooms got major updates including large showers, creative wall coverings, and more functional plans. To further maximize storage and better connect the living spaces, the basement stair wall was opened up and lined with storage cabinets, open shelves, a beverage fridge, and a coffee. The result of the overall re-plan was updated and elegant spaces that became more usable and connected for the entire family.

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