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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Tom Brennan of Green Garage and the El Moore

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, architectural salvage, Community Preservation, Economic benefits of preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historical facades, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Economics, Preservation and Sustainability, Rehabilitation, Renewable energy, Salvaged materials, Sustainability / By Laura Kise

Tom Brennan, co-founder of The Green Garage and the El Moore, in Detroit, MI, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss these properties as innovative examples of sustainable working and living spaces. We covered multiple topics, including: Background information about Tom and his wife and co-founder Peggy, and how they came to initiate and complete …

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Fall Maintenance Tips for Your Historic Home

Leave a Comment / Energy efficiency, facade maintenance, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, help for historic homeowners, Historic Preservation, Historical facades, historical integrity, How to Preserve a Building, Importance of facades, importance of interiors, Indoor Air Quality, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, maintenance, Safety / By Danielle Keperling

FALL MAINTENANCE FOR YOUR HISTORIC HOME – Fall is here. This brings Halloween fun, Thanksgiving, fall abundance, and cooler weather. It also signals the transition to winter and harsh conditions for our homes. We have often repeated, maintenance is essential for a home, especially an old or historical one. Read on for your fall maintenance …

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SYMPATHETIC ADDITIONS: Adding on Harmoniously

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Additions, architectural style, Building Codes, Contractor, damage, facade maintenance, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, help for historic homeowners, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic streetscape, Historical Architecture, Historical facades, historical integrity, Home exterior, Importance of facades, Kitchens, Materials, period architecture, planning, Rehabilitation, Using a good design / By Danielle Keperling

ADDING ON TO A HISTORIC HOME – You’ve found your historic or old home. And it’s nearly perfect…..BUT, maybe it does not have enough room for you. Or maybe you need to make adjustments to age in place. Maybe you want to add a room on your first floor, or even expand a tiny historical …

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Porches: History, Revival, and Preservation

Leave a Comment / Historical Architectural Styles, Historical Architecture, Historical facades, Home exterior, Porch / By Danielle Keperling

It’s June. Summer’s seasonal activities and fine weather beckon us outdoors. This, combined with renewed desire for calm, traditional, home-based activities (as well as some necessary lifestyle adjustments secondary to COVID-19), invite us to turn a more appreciative eye to an old friend: the porch. Or veranda. Or portico. Whatever the preferred moniker, porches are …

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Historical Facades: More Than Aesthetics

1 Comment / architectural style, Cultural landscape, facade maintenance, facadism, form and function, Historic streetscape, Historical Aesthetics, Historical facades, Historical facades more than aesthetics, Home exterior, Importance of facades, maintaining your historic home, maintenance free trap, period architecture, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

A façade. What is it? Most of us know that its most basic definition is “face.” In the case of architecture, this refers to the exterior side of the building, usually the front. Façades on buildings are often the first defining features we see. As times change, so do architectural design styles, and this is …

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