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Congratulations! You’ve purchased a home that is 50, 100, 200(!) years old and brimming with special qualities. Maybe it’s the way the light filters through wavy-glass windows and warms the mellow wide-board floors. Or the smooth feel of the banister, polished by generations of hands. Or specific features such as original beadboard built-ins, door knobs […]
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People come to me when they have an old house that needs work, they know it’s special, and they desperately don’t want to f&%# it up. How do you bring a 50- or 100- or 200-year-old house into the 21st century without destroying its historic character? That is the essential question of historic rehabilitation, defined […]
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“You realize it would be faster and cheaper to just tear it down and rebuild it from scratch.” My client and I stood outside the ca-1876 train depot she had purchased a few months earlier, the contractor who made this pronouncement silently eyeing us. The moment of truth. Why did this property owner invest in […]
