Siding

This house had all it's historic arts and crafts charm covered up with aluminum siding and was painted white. We tore off the aluminum siding, re sided the upper parts of the house with cedar shingles and repaired the soffit and fascia. The house was repainted with historically appropriate colors. The result is a charming house that stands out from the other houses on the block which have had their historic architectural details covered and altered.

We came back a year later and did the basement on this house which is also featured in this photo gallery.

A customer contacted me from my ad in the Twin Cities Bungalow Club newsletter about doing an exterior rehab on a bungalow in Highland Park. This was a very exciting project because the owners wanted to do a complete exterior makeover to bring the house back to it's original glory. Like many early 20th century homes, this one had much of it's architectural details obscured by cheap low maintenance exterior cladding. There was aluminum siding on the upper half story, and the stucco below had been painted.