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How to Prioritize Home Remodeling Projects for Maximum Value
It's not right to think of your home solely as a financial investment. Sure, it will appreciate in value. Sure, there are things you can do to help it appreciate in value. But at the end of the day, it is your home – something far more important than a stock portfolio...
How Basement Finishing Can Improve Your Home’s Energy Efficiency
Is your home's basement little more than a concrete-walled sublevel? The kind of place that's good for doing laundry and storing Christmas ornaments and nothing else? Then you're missing out! You stand so much to gain when you transform your basement into liveable...
Designing a Custom Fireplace: Adding Warmth and Style to Your Home
Jupiter, god of thunder. Apollo, god of the sun. Dionysus, god of wine. Hestia, goddess of … the hearth? That's right! The ancient Greeks considered the fireplace to be so important that one of their 12 central deities was dedicated to it. It makes sense when you...
The Benefits of Adding a Four-Season Room to Your Minnesota Home
Do you want to spend more time outdoors – without getting frozen to the bone or cooked to a crisp by Minnesota's crazy weather, or eaten alive by its many carnivorous insects? Then the solution is simple. You need a four-season sunroom! Adding a four-season room to an...
How to Choose the Right Contractor for Storm Damage Repairs
Some miseries are inescapable. For example, if the heavens decided to damage your home with violent wind or pounding hail, then there was nothing you could have done to prevent them from doing so. Fortunately, many miseries can be avoided entirely. Hiring a bad storm...
The Importance of Hiring Professionals for Storm Damage Repair
Even the hardiest Minnesotan home is vulnerable to the worst kinds of Minnesotan weather. Heavy rain, hailstones and tree branches regularly fall from the sky here, and winds strong enough to peel siding from houses aren't uncommon. Since 1980, weather and climate...
Home Construction 101: What to Expect During the Building Process
Finally – after spending so many years living in houses that other people built, you are going to build one of your very own. How exciting! How fortunate! But it can also be stressful if you don't know what to expect. Set all of your fears aside. Angell's Construction...
Transforming Your Home’s Exterior: Ideas and Inspiration From Angell’s Construction Services
Curb appeal. Mentioning it around a real estate agent is like turning the key on a wind-up toy. They'll start sermonizing on its importance to selling a house, and offer you many tips so you can enjoy greater success at closing. They're right, of course. People pay...
Quality Meets Affordability: Understanding Angell’s Fair Prices and High-Quality Work
General contracting is a tightrope act. Your goal is simple: deliver the quality results that win your clients' approval, repeat business and referrals. This would be easy if cost weren't a factor. But needless to say, your client would be none too pleased if you...
Facing Nature’s Fury: How Angell’s Construction Services Protects Midwestern Homes
Mark Twain once said “If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.” That's cute. If you don't like the weather in the Midwest, it could be because it is pounding your home with tomato-sized hailstones, or peeling its siding off with an F1...