With so many design and hiring choices for your new custom home or remodeling project how do you begin?

Choose an expert to choose for you.

Our Experience is Your Edge

Our insider knowledge and industry contacts developed by working for home builders are now available to assist you; the buyer or home remodeling client.

Rely on our expertise to match you with the best contractor for the job and to simplify the process from beginning to end.

  • Interior design or re-decorating projects
  • Room additions or space-finishing
  • Future custom home design
  • Landscape improvements
  • Investment property renovation
  • Land acquisition
  • Selling your land or tear-down


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The PowerHouse team 

of Wendy Cohen, Patti Nordyke, Laura K. Harris and Eileen Malcom has a combined 40+ years of experience in the luxury home building and residential real estate industries.



Vice President & Senior Consultant Laura K. Harris

Laura earned an exceptional reputation in real estate development during her 15 years working for renowned custom home builder, Orren Pickell Designers & Builders. Well versed in the luxury home buying and building process, Laura can provide you with an unequaled range of services to facilitate the successful completion of your dream home project. Whether it’s a condo build-out, kitchen or bath upgrade, home addition, or vacation property construction, Laura’s personalized project guidance will help keep your project on schedule and on budget. Laura is also a licensed realtor in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Associate Consultant Eileen Malcolm

Eileen brings her luxury design/build expertise to the PowerHouse Consulting team after spending 18 years in purchasing and procurement for area's top custom home builders.  As a former Senior Sales Associate for Orren Pickell Designers & Builders, Eileen has developed a vast network of best-in-the-business resources including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, home media designers, remodelers, fabricators and installers involved in some of Chicagoland’s most impressive luxury home projects.

      

Wendy CohenPatti Nordyke
PowerHouse FounderOperations Manager
and President

Wendy Cohen – Founder and President

As former Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Orren Pickell Designers & Builders in Lincolnshire, Illinois, for 16 years, Wendy helped put that company on the map; increasing sales from $12 million to $60 million, and expanding the company from 25 employees to 120 employees. In 2006 she went independent and launched PowerHouse Real Estate Advisors & Consultants, LLC, offering business consulting and marketing services for practitioners in the meta-industry of luxury home design and building.

Patti Nordyke - Operations Manager

Patti Nordyke joined the PowerHouse team after a successful 16-year real estate sales career. Her knowledge of the Chicagoland housing industry, upscale building and buying trends, and her break-through marketing achievements on behalf of more than 60 North Shore realtors makes her a unique and valuable asset to the company and its clients.

PowerHouse Home Building & Remodeling Consultants provide confidence in building