Milless Interiors
Albertville, MN 55301 763-238-8202
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Thinking About a Home Remodel? Here’s Where to Start
Begin by carefully considering what you think you want and how you can get it. Weigh your wish list against what you’ll probably pay to fulfill it.
Planning a Home Remodel
If you’re adding new rooms, making substantial changes to the existing floor plan, or dealing with complex structural or functional questions, you’ll need to hire professional design help. There are several design options and combinations of options.
How to Check Out Contractors
Some homeowners leave contractor vetting and selection to their architects or house designers, but most make the call themselves, and rightly so: It’s the most important step.
Getting Prices and Proposals for Remodeling Work
Checkbook’s undercover shoppers asked contractors to bid on three different projects. Company-to-company price differences were striking. For the largest of the jobs, quotes ranged from $190,000 to $321,000—a difference of more than $130,000.
What a Contract for Remodeling Work Should Include
Once you’ve picked a contractor, have it prepare a written contract. It should include the following information for medium-sized and major projects; but even if your project is small, many of these points also apply.
Your Role During a Remodel
You can do a lot to help the job run smoothly, finish on time, and produce the best possible results.
Should You Buy Products Yourself for a Remodel?
You can use our advice and price ratings to pay less—often a lot less—for appliances, fixtures, flooring, plantings, and many other products that you can buy on your own, rather than having your contractor buy them for you. But should you?
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You have several options to pay for your project. Cash certainly is the easiest: no applications, no forms, no appraisals, no debt, no interest. However, many homeowners borrow to cover large remodeling jobs.
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Consumer Comments for Milless Interiors
Aug 21, 2017
What was done: kitchen remodeling.
What Tom Milless does well: Thinks flexibly about design to meet the homeowner's requirements, has a talented cabinetmaker (or two), offers remodeling service at an excellent price point, and will ultimately correct most problems that are pointed out. We have a visually appealing kitchen with beautiful custom cabinet facing work and quartz counters, as a result. He tends to focus primarily on one job at a time, which (by comparative reports) means he gets the job done on a shorter timeline than many other contractors. He uses competent plumbing and electrical subcontractors. In general his project scheduling was capably done, and the work was delivered on-budget.
Where Tom could improve: On execution detail. He likes shortcuts, and initially did not want to repair sheetrock holes resulting from his team's demolition of the old cabinets (as the holes would be behind the new cabinets, not visible); some of the sheetrock areas that were fixed were poorly done, initially, and had to be re-done; undercabinet lighting wiring was routed without using wiring channels (wires were stapled to the sheetrock in the area behind the refrigerator, and duct-taped down in the cabinet over the range hood--again, areas not very visible). Cabinet interiors were melamine over particle board; this is difficult to work with, if one needs to route wiring through the shelving or put support screws through the cabinet sides, as drilling it quickly tends to "flake off" some melamine and, typically, some of the underlying MFD, too. That may not impair the structural integrity of the shelves, depending on how carefully it's drilled--in most cases the damage to the installed cabinetry was mostly cosmetic and limited. The need for caulking/sealing the backsplash joints at the sheetrock had to be pointed out before Tom took care of that, too. A landline phone connection was re-routed (per homeowners' requirements) without checking its operation before the splices were sheetrocked-in; the phone connection didn't work and it took some convincing to get Tom to open the sheetrock at the splicings for inspection (the fault was in the splicework, and he ultimately corrected it).