Chicagoland’s Stucco & EIFS Specialists
Your home’s exterior, finished right.
Traditional stucco, modern EIFS and painting — custom-home quality across the western suburbs, the North Shore and Chicago. Free estimates, from a crew based in Northlake, IL.
- Traditional 3-coat stucco
- EIFS / synthetic stucco
- Exterior & interior painting
A real project of ours, front elevation — mid-build to finished stucco and stone. Drag the handle to compare.
- Free estimatesNo obligation
- Stucco & EIFSWe install both systems
- Based in Northlake, ILLocally owned
- Serving ChicagolandWest suburbs to the North Shore
What we do
One crew for the whole exterior.
Stucco and EIFS are the core of it, with repair, textures, painting and new-construction work built around them. Every service below is something we do ourselves.
The question everyone asks
Stucco or EIFS? They are not the same thing.
One is portland cement built up in coats over lath. The other is insulation board with a reinforced base coat and an acrylic finish. They can look nearly identical and they behave completely differently — in cost, in weight, in insulation, and in how they fail.
Most contractors install one and recommend it for everything. We install both, which means we get to tell you the honest answer for your wall.
Traditional stucco
- Portland cement, three coats over lath
- Hard, dense and impact resistant
- No added insulation value
- Heavier — the structure has to carry it
EIFS
- Insulation board, base coat, acrylic finish
- Continuous insulation across the studs
- Lighter — good on additions and upper floors
- Needs its sealant maintained
Our process
Four steps, and no surprises in the middle.
You will know what is happening on your house and roughly when, from the first visit to the day the scaffold comes down.
Free estimate
We walk the elevation, talk through stucco against EIFS, agree the texture and color, and put a written number in front of you. No charge, no obligation.
Prep and base coats
Weather barrier, lath or insulation board, flashing and accessories, then the base coats — rodded flat and given the cure time the material actually needs.
Texture and finish
The finish coat in the texture you approved on a sample, run elevation by elevation with the same crew so it stays consistent the whole way around.
Final walkthrough
We walk the exterior with you, clear anything on your list, and leave the site clean. Then the house is yours again.
Recent work
The photos are the pitch.
Real project photography from a Chicagoland custom home — nothing staged, nothing borrowed.
Front elevation, finished — cream stucco above a light stone veneer base, with black-framed windows and a dark board-and-batten gable. 
Rear elevation, finished — a smooth white stucco field meeting a full-height natural stone chimney with an outdoor fireplace, over a paver patio. The same front elevation mid-build — Tyvek HomeWrap over the sheathing, stone veneer started on the right wing, ladders still up. 
The same rear elevation mid-build — walls still wrapped, with the stone chimney built and the paver patio already laid.
Why Stucco MSOTO
Hands-on, texture-obsessed, and local.
A working trade business run out of Northlake — multiple textures, one crew, and the same hands on your elevation from the first coat to the last.
Custom-home quality
The finish you see on Chicagoland's high-end new builds, applied with the same care on a rear addition as on a front elevation.
Stucco and EIFS
We install both systems, so our recommendation is based on your wall rather than on the only thing we know how to do.
Texture options
Smooth, sand, dash and custom finishes — sampled on site in daylight, then kept consistent across the whole exterior.
Clean, reliable crews
On time, tidy site, finished right. On a custom build the exterior holds up four other trades, and we know it.
Proof of work
We would rather show you than tell you.
Instead of a wall of quotes you have no way to check, here is the actual work — the same house, photographed on site before and after.
New projects go up on our Facebook page as they are finished — it is the quickest way to see what we have been working on this month.
Where we work
Based in Northlake, IL. Working across Chicagoland.
From the near-west suburbs out through DuPage County and up to the North Shore, plus Chicago itself. Pick your town for the local detail.
Also serving Melrose Park, Franklin Park, Bensenville, Addison, Lombard, Villa Park, Berwyn, Cicero, Elmwood Park, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Park Ridge and the surrounding communities. See the full service area.
Free estimate
Free estimate on your exterior.
Tell us what you are planning. We will come out, look at the wall, and give you a straight number — whether that is a full stucco elevation, an EIFS job, a repair or a repaint.
- Homeowners, builders and property managers all welcome.
- Not sure whether you need stucco or EIFS? Ask — that is a free conversation too.
- Working from plans? Send the elevations and we will take off from them.