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The Challenges of Preserving the Colonel Palmer House’s Crown Moldings

This week, as paint restoration specialists from the Chicago area, we undertook work on a historical, 1858, Greek Revival and Federalist brick house built for Gustavus Palmer, a successful farmer and early settler in McHenry county. The house sits on its original corner lot in Crystal Lake, Illinois and still looks quite impressive. In 1985, the house was added to the National Register of Historical Places and the Park District is now responsible for the preservation of this special piece of McHenry county history. Because of its design, the house has no gutters. The water drains over the large crown and dental moldings, and causes the paint to fail in a major way, thereby compromising the integrity of the original wood components of the building. As shown in the first picture, on the West side of the house, once the scraping process started, one hundred fifty five years of paint came off a twenty foot section of the crown. To preserve the wood, we used a product designed to restore wooden boats. The product is a Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer (CPES) known as “ The Rot Doctor ”. It seals the wood fibers and creates an ideal surface for paint to adhere to.

Historic Preservation of Berkeley's Chinn-Pratt House

Capomastro Group

Capomastro Group is proud to be named a 2016 recipient of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association's Preservation Award, for our work on the post-fire rebuilding of the 1904 Colonial Revival treasure known as "The Chinn-Pratt House." Capomastro Group, General Contractor Renate Lohmann, Architect Daniella Thompson, Photographer

Melrose Preservation Plan

The Preservation Collaborative, Inc.

Homes which we documented as part of the Melrose Highlands Preservation Plan.
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Mount Washington Restoration

Twenty One Tonnes

Moon Canyon is a 1930s hunting cabin in the Mount Washington neighbourhood of Los Angeles, restored by NoNo Studio with the careful, unhurried attention of someone re-potting an ancient tree. Original cedar panelling, a 1970s stained glass insert, and decades of layered character were preserved and built around rather than swept away. The project was featured in Architectural Digest, Leibal, and Vogue Australia. Three of our pieces found their place within it. The Oak Lamp — a floor lamp with a hand turned white oak base made by Surcle Wood in Los Angeles and an elephant grass shade woven by SWOPA in northern Ghana — brings two LA and Ghanaian craft traditions into a single object. The Casita Lamp, a table lamp whose ceramic base is formed by celebrated Oaxacan potter Eligio Zárate Blanco and whose palm shade is woven by award-winning weaver Belén Perez Garcia using a technique passed down through generations of her family, sits quietly in the space with the same material honesty that runs through the whole restoration. A small one-off bedside lamp completes the picture. Each piece was chosen for a home where nothing is incidental. That is precisely the kind of space our work is made for. Interior design: NoNo Studio, Los Angeles Photography: William Jess Laird

24' hand Split Shakes, Preserved in Weathered Gray,(pole gutters w/copper spouts

The Cedar Roof Company

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Large trendy beige three-story stone gable roof photo in Philadelphia

Caesarstone Australia

Mid-sized trendy galley dark wood floor kitchen photo in Sydney with an island, an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, quartzite countertops and stone slab backsplash