Avalon Construction & Design

Dec 2023

We hired John Elias and his team at Avalon to build our home in South Barrington and had an outstanding experience throughout the entire process. We initially started the design process working with another design and build firm, but decided to cut ties after the architectural plans were completed and look for a different builder. With the prior firm, we experienced a host of issues during the design phase (e.g. lack of communication, missed deadlines, did not listen to our input, etc.) and knew it would have been an extremely frustrating build process. John Elias was recommended to us and it was a great experience from the initial bid conversations through the build....read full review

Dec 2023

“This is going to be fun..." said the trusted framing carpenter of our General Contractor, John Elias of Avalon Construction & Design's. It was so refreshing that everyone involved from top to bottom was as excited as we were to take on the challenge of our project! This made us feel, from day 1, that we had picked the right contractor to tackle our major renovation and doubling the footprint of our 1890's Victorian. Spoiler Alert - they did a magnificent job and so there's no doubt that building a new home would be a piece of cake for this crew.John viewed our project as an exciting challenge but made it very clear at the planning meetings that things might not...read full review

Oct 2023

We have just completed construction of our house in South Barrington, and we wanted to share the superb experience that we had with Avalon Construction and Design and John Elias.John Elias saved us actually. Our story is a long one. We had started with a different builder because they were “less expensive” than Avalon. This other builder started with a “Design Phase” where we paid $10,000 to work on blueprints and drawings with their architect. However, this builder did not permit us to talk with the architect; rather, all communication went through the builder to the architect who communicated back through the builder. This cumbersome communication was suboptimal,...read full review