Luxury Renovations, Custom Homes & Interiors in Oak Brook
For Oak Brook's estate homes and contemporary builds, a principal-led studio that shapes the whole house, architecture, interiors and finish, around the people who live there.
Oak Brook is a village built around room to breathe. Its generous estate lots, mature tree cover and quiet equestrian heritage have long drawn executives and collectors to homes designed for scale and privacy, sprawling traditional estates near Fullersburg, crisp contemporary residences set well back from the road, and a thread of architecturally ambitious houses that reward considered renovation. Martire Custom Homes works at precisely this register. As a boutique, principal-led firm, we read each property and each owner before a single line is drawn, then carry one coherent vision from pre-architect planning through construction, custom millwork and the final styling of every room. The aim is never a house that merely photographs well, but a home whose proportions, light and materials feel inevitable, and unmistakably yours.
Designing at estate scale
Oak Brook's lots invite ambition: deep setbacks, room for additions and wings, grounds that ask to be drawn into the architecture rather than left as an afterthought. That scale is both a gift and a discipline. A larger home only reads as effortless when its rhythm is right, when sightlines, ceiling heights, circulation and the relationship between formal and lived-in spaces are resolved as a single composition. Courtenay Martire leads each project personally, balancing a home's energies so that grandeur never tips into coldness and intimacy is never lost in square footage.
Whether the work is a whole-home transformation, a thoughtful addition or a ground-up custom build, the studio holds the full picture: how a room receives morning light, how a gallery wall meets a stair, how a kitchen opens to the grounds beyond. On estate-scale lots, this resolution is what separates a house that is simply large from one that feels genuinely composed.
From pre-construction to the final styled room
Martire is best engaged early, in the pre-architect, pre-construction phase, where the most consequential decisions are made. We can help you select an architect or work alongside one already engaged, guide or shape the plans, and then carry artistic direction the whole way through: custom joinery and cabinetry, millwork, lighting plans, drapery and textiles, materials, art and the finishing styling that makes a space feel resolved.
With long-standing artisan partnerships and around ninety percent of our work coming from returning clients, the studio is built for trust and continuity rather than transaction. One point of view is sustained from the first conversation to the day you move back in, so the architecture and the interiors arrive as one idea, never handed off between separate hands at the end.
A home that tells your story
The most memorable Oak Brook homes are personal before they are impressive. Drawing on a background that spans fashion, photography, art, music and architecture, the studio approaches each renovation as a kind of portrait, reading your lifestyle, your collections, the way you actually entertain and retreat, and translating that into spaces with a distinct soul print. Contemporary or classic, expansive or quietly restrained, the house is composed around you, so that you become, quite deliberately, the star of your own home. Every material and detail is chosen to serve that story, and built well enough to hold it for decades.
A studio suited to homes of this calibre.
- Principal-led from first conversation to final styling, Courtenay Martire personally directs each project, suited to the scale and significance of Oak Brook estates
- Best engaged pre-architect and pre-construction, where the decisions that shape a large home matter most, selecting or working alongside your architect and guiding the plans
- Full artistic direction under one roof: custom millwork, cabinetry, lighting, drapery, textiles, materials, art and finishes, held to one coherent vision
- Built for privacy and trust, a boutique studio with long-standing artisan partnerships and roughly 90% returning-client work, suited to discreet, significant projects
- Equally fluent in traditional estates and contemporary builds, designing each home around its owner rather than around a house style
Good to know.
What kinds of projects do you take on in Oak Brook?
Estate-scale luxury renovations, whole-home transformations, additions, custom homes and design-led interiors, typically larger, multi-room undertakings where the studio can carry one vision across architecture, construction and finishes. We are happiest engaged early, in the pre-architect or pre-construction phase, where we can shape the home from the ground up.
Do I need an architect already, or can you help with that?
Either works. We can begin before an architect is chosen, guiding or creating the plans and helping you select the right architect for your home, or work alongside one you are already engaged with. The advantage of involving us early is a single, coherent design direction from the first sketch through to the final styled room.
Can you handle both the construction and the interiors?
Yes. Martire carries full artistic direction from pre-construction through to finishes and styling, custom joinery, millwork and cabinetry, lighting plans, drapery and textiles, materials, art and project direction, so the architecture and the interiors are conceived as one rather than passed between separate hands.
If you are considering a significant renovation or a new home in Oak Brook, we would welcome a quiet conversation about what it might become.