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Practical Preservation Podcast featuring Josh Blanc of Clay Squared to Infinity

Leave a Comment / Practical Preservation Podcast, Rehabilitation, Replacement in kind, tile, tile making / By Danielle Keperling

On this week’s episode of the Practical Preservation Podcast, Danielle spoke with Josh Blanc of Clay Squared to Infinity in Minneapolis Minnesota. From their website, “Clay Squared crafts handmade tiles in many shapes and colors for kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces, and as art tile. We feature tile by local and national artists and offer the largest selection of …

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Practical Preservation Podcast featuring Amy Heavilin of Vivacious Victorian

Leave a Comment / Historical Architecture, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preserving a building, Rehabilitation, Saving a building, Victorian Architecture / By Danielle Keperling

Amy Heavilin of Vivacious Victorian joined the Practical Preservation podcast to discuss documenting the restoration of multiple homes! Amy shares her lessons learned from multiple restoration projects including: know your limits, ask questions, and find local people to build your resource list. If you are looking for inspiration for your project visit Amy’s blog (after …

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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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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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AGING IN PLACE: Growing Older in Your (Historic) Home

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Rehabilitation, maintaining your historic home, Rehabilitation, retrofitting, Safety / By Danielle Keperling

AGING IN PLACE IN A HISTORIC HOME – Aging in place generally comes with necessary change to your home, but this is even truer of situations involving a historic home. As with many adaptive reuse projects, one must determine the balance between maintaining historic fabric and making adaptations suitable for aging. Photo by Boston Public …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Briana Grosicki of PlaceEconomics

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, architectural salvage, Community Preservation, Economic benefits of preservation, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Tax Incentives, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic streetscape, Inclusivity, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Economics, Preservation and Sustainability, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Preservation Education, Rehabilitation, Salvaged materials, Why Preservation Matters, Women in Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

Briana Grosicki, associate principal of PlaceEconomics based in Washington, D.C., joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss the economic benefits of preservation. We covered multiple topics, including: Briana’s background, including growing up regularly visiting local battlefields in Virginia, volunteering with her main street district as a teen, to working with Donovan Rypkema Briana’s additional roles …

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Coffee Break RECAP: Existing Building Codes

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Building Codes, Coffee Break Recap, Contractor, Energy efficiency, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, historical integrity, historical interiors, Home exterior, home interiors, house and structural moves, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Preserving a building, Rehabilitation, Replacement in kind, Resources for Historic Restorations / By Danielle Keperling

COFFEE BREAK RECAP – This month’s “coffee break” video recap focuses on how to navigate the existing building code and uniform construction code within your historic building project in Pennsylvania. Watch below. VIDEO SUMMARY: Focus: Exemptions (Existing Building Code) and things liable to the Uniform Construction Code, depending on the parameters of a historic …

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PRESERVATION MONTH PART 2: How to Preserve a Building

Leave a Comment / Community Preservation, Federal Preservation, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Projects, Historic Preservation Tax Incentives, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, How to Preserve a Building, Preservation Month, Preserving a building, Rehabilitation, Saving a building, State Preservation, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

PART 2 PRESERVATION MONTH 2020 SERIES LAST WEEK WE PRESENTED PART 1 on Why Preservation Matters. Part 2 of this series focuses on preserving or saving a building. It’s one thing to read and learn about preservation, and it’s a whole other thing to actively do it. While there may be limitations as to what …

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Preservation and Sustainability

Leave a Comment / Greening your historic home, Passive heating and cooling, Preservation and Sustainability, Rehabilitation, Renewable energy, Salvaged materials, Sustainability / By Danielle Keperling

Preservation and sustainability. What does one have to do with the other? If we examine these terms more closely, we can see that older buildings are inherently “green” or sustainable because of “embodied energy” (all of the energy used to build the building that would need to be expended to build something else). In fact, …

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