About Twentytwo23West

About

About the owner Mike Milewski

Mike is a second-generation carpenter with a degree in the Arts and being mentored by having his father who passed down old-world, traditional techniques of carpentry alongside high tech innovations.

Mike founded and manages Mike’s Building and Consulting Inc an award-winning company. They’ve been featured in magazines like Chicago Homes and Gardens for their expert historic restoration work as well as doing house additions and installation of artistic woodworking.

Mike is an artist who is co-founder and owner of Galaudet Gallery. Mike's work has been exhibited nationally. His Tiny Home design for affordable housing has won awards and has also been nationally exhibited.

Mike holds certifications from the University of Illinois for different sustainable building practices like the following:

Sustainable Sites Certification

Managing a work site that is sustainable while creating a sustainable site: reducing water demand, filtering and reducing stormwater runoff, enhancing biodiversity, providing pollinator and wildlife habitat, reducing energy consumption, improving air quality, improving human health, increasing outdoor recreation opportunities and much more.

Sustainable Sites Certifications

Building Sciences Certification
Low Impact Living Construction Methods
Passive House Design and Construction
Smart Home Technologies
Energy Systems Certification
Sustainable Energy System Design and Construction
Solar Energy Networking
Wind Turbine Technologies
Window Installation and Green Considerations
Low-Impact Living Certificate
Heating and Air Conditioning for Net Zero Spaces

Mike is a also Chicago Conservation Corps member as well as a neighborhood block captain for recycling

Mike loves historical properties and conservation minded restoration. He knows that TwentyTwo23 is a gem in offering high quality sustainable living in the heart of Chicago.

Unique, creative and fulfilling are three words to describe this wonderful place.

Mike also enjoys history and has found a like mind in the architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc who was tasked with repairing Paris after the Napoleonic Wars, In 1854 Viollet said,

“To restore a building is not to preserve it, to repair, or rebuild it; it is to reinstate it in a condition of completeness which could never have existed at any given time.”

Mike also feels that buildings like TwentyTwo23 West also offer the chance for its workers and inhabitants to “reinstate a condition of completeness which could never have existed at any given time.”