Assessment before action
A careful read of the structure — what is original, what has been altered, what is failing and why — before any work begins.
Preserving the integrity of a place while preparing it for the years ahead.

Older homes and their outbuildings carry something worth keeping. The proportions, the materials, the evidence of hands that knew what they were doing. Restoration is the discipline of repairing what time has worn without erasing what makes the place itself.
I approach restoration projects in New Hampshire the way they deserve: understand the structure first, stabilize what needs stabilizing, then repair with materials and methods sympathetic to the original. The goal is a building that is sound for the next fifty years and still honest about its first hundred.
A careful read of the structure — what is original, what has been altered, what is failing and why — before any work begins.
Sills, framing, and foundations addressed at the cause, so the repair holds and the building settles no further.
Species, profiles, and finishes matched to the original work, sourced with the same care they were first chosen with.
The structures that give a New England property its character, kept standing and kept useful.
Larger restorations broken into sensible phases, with specialists brought in and supervised where the work demands it.
Every property has its particulars. Tell me about yours.
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