MIKE'S BUILDING & CONSULTING

At Mike's Building and Consulting, we understand that change is not always easy. Our years of experience have taught us to always make your success our priority.

Mike Milewski is the Founder and Principal of Mike's Building and Consulting (MBC).  Mike began working with his father at age 11 learning the old world craft of carpentry using only hand tools.  In 1983 he founded MBC:  a successful Consulting and Construction business in the Chicago-land area creating solutions for both homes and businesses. 

In 1987, Mike founded and is President of  McVicker Management a commercial, residential, and agricultural rental management company.

In 2010, Mike co-founded and is co-owner of Galaudet Gallery which has an international client and artist base with two gallery spaces one in Chicago, IL and the other in Eau Claire, WI.  Click Here to learn more about this award winning, art world gallery.

Mike is also an artist.  When he was 6 years old he won first place for a watercolor tiger he painted for the Arlington Heights Community Art Show.  At 11 years old he won an honorable mention for a gigantic collage kite of monsters and dinosaurs drawn and constructed by him for the Arlington Heights Community Art Show.  At 13 years old he won third place for his sculptural piece of an eight foot high Tyrannosaurus Rex for the St. James Art and Science Show.  He then moved on to his construction and a rental businesses incorporating his creative ideas and repurposing recyclable material. He believes every project should have at least one creative element to set it apart from everything else like it.

Currently he is exhibiting his mixed media pieces internationally. 

Mike Milewski has worked as a carpenter/contractor since he was 13 learning the trade from his father.  Mike’s artistic practice has spanned construction, mixed media, social concerns and historical renovation. 

Mike work toward establishing sustainable building practices that also infuse a creative impulse has won awards and his architectural elements have been photographed for magazines and exhibited internationally.  His practice of using unique materials integrated with elements of functional construction ideas has been hailed as a provocation of historical art.

Mike’s current  projects are as creative as he is:

• Mike reflects fresh new ideas, actual patents, re purposed construction material, and his respect for nature in artworks that are small and large

• His construction work focuses on sustainable building design that goes beyond green. 

• His work with the homeless is focused on creating homes—from a creative perspective—so that each unique individual can be protected from the elements and have the basics most of take for granted. Click Here to read about TIPI 2.0 Mike's award winning design for affordable, sustainable housing solutions

• His renovation of historic properties has won awards and he is currently restoring a Victorian Queen Anne and writing a book about this process. Click here to read more about this property

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Mike sees how his sustainable construction techniques, his multi-media practice examining recent tech pasts for windows into tech futures and his concern for homeless people all lie on the same trajectory and somehow all have the same goals.

Mike brings all these skills and more to his work with your project.

Give MBC a call today to set up your first consultation.