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Costello & Co

If your home has one bathroom shared between a family of four, two bathrooms split between a growing household and regular guests, or a primary suite that still has a half bath from 1978 — you already know the pain point. The morning rush. The guest who feels like an imposition. The half bath that doesn't reflect who you are or how you want to live. The home that would be perfect if it just had one more bathroom. For Oakland County homeowners in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills,

The kitchen remodel you've been imagining. The primary bathroom that finally feels like a retreat. The finished basement your family would actually use. You know what you want. The question — the one that keeps the project from starting — is how to pay for it. It's one of the most common conversations we have with Oakland County homeowners in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Rochester Hills, and Beverly Hills. The desire is real. The vision is clear. But the price tag on a meani

It's one of the most common conversations happening at kitchen tables across Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills, and Rochester Hills right now and it doesn't have an easy answer. Your home isn't quite working. Maybe it's the kitchen that hasn't been updated since the previous owners. Maybe the kids are getting older and sharing a bathroom that was fine for two people but doesn't work for four. Maybe you love your neighborhood and your street and your neighbors, but t

A kitchen remodel is one of the most exciting — and most complex — projects you can take on in your home. Done right, it transforms the most-used room in your house into something genuinely beautiful and functional. Done wrong, it becomes an expensive lesson in what not to do. After completing kitchens throughout Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills, Rochester Hills, and the surrounding Oakland County area, we've seen both outcomes. The homeowners who have the best exp

If you've been researching kitchen remodeling costs in Oakland County, you've probably already run into the problem: most of what you find online is either national averages that have nothing to do with Birmingham or Bloomfield Hills, or ranges so wide — "$10,000 to $150,000!" — that they're essentially useless for actual planning. We're going to fix that. At Costello & Co Construction, we're a women-owned design-build firm based in Birmingham, Michigan. We've completed kitch

If you've been researching remodeling contractors in Oakland County, you've probably come across the term "design-build firm" — including right here on our website. But what does it actually mean? And more importantly, why should it matter when you're choosing who to trust with your home? We get this question a lot. So here's a straightforward explanation of what the design-build model is, how it compares to the traditional approach, and why it tends to produce better results