Maxwell Building Services

Maxwell Building Services Maxwell Building Services is a design-build remodeling company serving Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe, and nearby Metro Detroit communities.

We specialize in design and build of kitchens, bathrooms, basements, and whole-home renovations. Maxwell is a full-service restoration (Water, Fire, and Storm) contractor and can take on any clean up or project from start to finish, big or small. MAXWELL works for the homeowner and only the homeowner. We are fully licensed, certified and insured so rest assured when hiring Michigan's premier prope

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09/02/2026

Cabinetry is about 35% of a kitchen budget. Almost everyone assumes the appliances are the bigger number. They aren’t, and it isn’t close.

A cabinet box is a cabinet box until you open one. What you’re paying for is a plywood case instead of particle board. A dovetailed drawer box that’s still square after ten thousand cycles instead of a stapled butt joint wrapped in something that looks like wood. A full-extension undermount slide rated for a drawer loaded with stoneware. A door finished in a controlled booth rather than sprayed on a driveway in July.

Then there’s the part that never appears as its own line on any bid: fit.

In a house built in 1926, nothing is plumb, level or square. A run of cabinets that’s perfect in the shop has to be scribed to walls that wander, and the reveal between doors has to stay the same width from one end of the run to the other — or your eye catches it every single morning without knowing why. That’s hours of a skilled person’s time, and it’s invisible the moment it’s done right.

We’re a Dura Supreme authorized dealer and we carry BaileyTown as our mid-grade line. Both start as new cabinetry. We don’t reface and we don’t paint boxes.

You’ll open those drawers every day for twenty years. That’s where the money should go.

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This island isn't cabinetry. It's furniture.White oak base with tapered legs and an open underside, a thick mitered marb...
09/02/2026

This island isn't cabinetry. It's furniture.

White oak base with tapered legs and an open underside, a thick mitered marble top, and a stone apron sink built into the slab rather than dropped into a hole in it. It was designed to look like an antique worktable somebody moved into the room, not like a run of cabinets pretending to be one.

The mitered edge is why it works. A slab is 3cm thick; that apron reads closer to three inches. You get there by cutting the edge at 45 degrees and folding a second piece down the face so the seam disappears into the corner. It means buying the whole slab and laying the cut out before fabrication.

It's the most expensive way to build an island and the only way to get this one.

The floor runs into this shower and keeps going. No curb, no step, no lip.It's a framing decision, not a tile decision. ...
09/01/2026

The floor runs into this shower and keeps going. No curb, no step, no lip.

It's a framing decision, not a tile decision. For the shower floor to sit level with the room floor, the pan has to drop into the joists — which means cutting framing, heading it off, and setting the drain before anything above it exists. The drain here is a linear channel tucked along the base of the bench rather than a round one in the middle, so the whole floor can pitch one direction instead of four.

Decide you want this after the subfloor is closed and you aren't adding a detail. You're rebuilding a floor.

It's also the only kind of shower that still works when someone in the house is eighty. That's usually the real reason people ask, whether they say it or not.

Shower construction is one of the five drivers on our bathroom cost guide. Link in bio.

09/01/2026

We won’t give you a construction number after a thirty-minute walkthrough.

A price quoted in your driveway is a guess. Nobody can price a kitchen they haven’t measured, in a house they’ve never opened a wall in, with materials nobody has picked yet.

Anyone can name a low number to win the meeting. The rest arrives later as change orders, one at a time, when you’re too far in to walk away. That isn’t a bid. It’s a deposit on an argument.

An accurate number takes measured drawings, selections actually made, and quotes from the trades who will do the work. That’s why design comes first, and why design costs money.

Here’s what we will tell you on the phone, before you’ve paid us anything — the range. A kitchen that keeps its layout runs $65,000 to $110,000. Move the walls and you’re at $110,000 to $180,000. All four tiers, and the five things that move the number, are on our kitchen cost guide.

We’ll give you the range today. We won’t give you the price until we know it.

"Will this cost twice what they tell me?"It's the fear underneath every first phone call, and it's earned. Plenty of peo...
08/31/2026

"Will this cost twice what they tell me?"

It's the fear underneath every first phone call, and it's earned. Plenty of people have been handed a number in a driveway and a very different number in month four.

So we don't do that. A price given after a thirty-minute walkthrough is a guess dressed up as a commitment — and the gap gets closed later with change orders you didn't plan for.

What an actual number requires: measured drawings, selections made, and real quotes from real trades. That's why design comes first and why design costs money.

In the meantime we'll tell you the range on the phone. It's on our cost guides too. Link in bio.

$350 to $550 a square foot for an addition. That's more per foot than new construction, and it's a fair thing to ask abo...
08/30/2026

$350 to $550 a square foot for an addition. That's more per foot than new construction, and it's a fair thing to ask about.

A new house gets a clean site, one foundation pour, and a roof framed in a single sequence. An addition gets none of that. It gets a footing dug alongside an existing foundation that has to be matched for depth and frost. It gets a floor system that has to land at the same elevation as a floor built in 1954 that has since settled. It gets a structural tie-in to framing nobody drew.

An addition succeeds or fails at the seam. Nearly everything expensive about one happens within four feet of where new meets old.

Four addition tiers are on the addition cost guide. Link in bio.

The veining in that island and the veining on the wall behind the range came off slabs chosen together, in person, at th...
08/29/2026

The veining in that island and the veining on the wall behind the range came off slabs chosen together, in person, at the showroom.

That sounds like a small thing. It's the difference between stone that looks selected and stone that looks ordered. Two slabs from the same lot can read as different materials depending on where they were cut, and you don't learn that from a photograph — you learn it standing in front of them.

It's also why we have a studio. Nobody picks a slab well off a sample chip.

Pegs that move, so the drawer fits your dishes instead of the other way around.Dura Supreme peg drawer storage — one of ...
08/27/2026

Pegs that move, so the drawer fits your dishes instead of the other way around.

Dura Supreme peg drawer storage — one of the details that gets designed in from the start, not added at the end. That's the advantage of one team handling design and build.

Kitchen design and remodeling in Birmingham and across Oakland County. 248-809-0177

$90,000 to $150,000 for a finished lower level with a full bathroom.The bathroom is most of the gap between this and an ...
08/26/2026

$90,000 to $150,000 for a finished lower level with a full bathroom.

The bathroom is most of the gap between this and an open finish. Below-grade plumbing usually means breaking the slab and trenching for drain. That's concrete saw work and a week an open finish doesn't have.

The other variable is whatever is currently hanging from your joists. A main trunk line and a beam at 7 feet 2 is a design problem before it's a framing problem, and we'd rather move mechanicals than build a maze of soffits around them.

Four basement tiers and the five drivers are on the basement cost guide.

Cabinet Hardware — Brass Cup PullsIt's the jewelry of the kitchen. Solid brass cup pulls, inset doors, honed stone above...
08/25/2026

Cabinet Hardware — Brass Cup Pulls

It's the jewelry of the kitchen. Solid brass cup pulls, inset doors, honed stone above — the kind of details you notice on day one and love on year ten.

Custom cabinetry. Built to be lived with.

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135 N Old Woodward Avenue Suite 200
Birmingham, MI
48009

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