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Restoring Your Historic House: The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners

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How to deal with up to date existence in a ancient space.

This ebook does now not repeat elementary data That may be comfortably to be had in lots of same old DIY books approximately carpentry, wiring, and plumbing. Quite, it presentations easy methods to adapt the ones DIY abilities to the specialised wishes of a ancient space.

Although there are different books approximately renovating vintage homes, that is the primary that prioritizes the id and protection of the ancient, personality-defining options of a space as a place to begin within the procedure. That may be the aim of this ebook: to explain and illustrate a highest-practices method for updating ancient properties for up to date existence in tactics that don’t try to flip an vintage space into a brand new one. The ebook additionally indicates many how one can lower your expenses within the procedure, with out settling for inexpensive or irrelevant answers.

Scott Hanson is a ancient-development protection skilled and has 40 years’ enjoy rehabilitating ancient homes. He has illustrated this authoritative ebook with masses of step by step footage, illustrations, charts, and determination-making courses. Interspersed All through are photograph essays of 13 restored ancient homes representing a variety of classes and architectural types: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic. With inner and external Images via David Clough, those multi-web page options display what can also be completed whilst a ancient house is renovated with a want to keep or repair as so much ancient personality as conceivable.

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