Historic homes have a character that is quite hard to replicate. Each time period and architectural style has its own charm in the different details like detailed trim and moulding, original staircases, and intricate door frames. When updates are needed to make sure your house can keep up with everyday life, there are a few important considerations to keep in mind to preserve your home’s original look and keep it lasting for many more years.
Choose Repair Over Replacement For Historical Home Remodeling
In most cases, your historical home’s worn trim, stairs, or doors don’t need to be replaced, but just require a little bit of maintenance. By sanding, filling, or re-staining these parts of your home, you can retain the original details that set it apart, while also freshening it up.
Not only does prioritizing repairs over complete replacement help you to keep your home’s original components lasting longer
Get Replacement Materials That Match Your Home
Unfortunately, since your home is older, not every component can be repaired. Aging happens to historic buildings, and it’s very common to have parts of your home that will need to be completely replaced. When this happens, you’ll want to make sure that you get trim, doors, stair parts, and other items that will match the same style of your home.
Finding Historic Restoration Building Materials
When looking for these types of materials, you may have a bit of a challenge finding the right parts. Many building supplies found in older homes are discontinued, and some stores only have modern-looking supplies. If you do start looking for these pieces in a traditional building supply store, consider taking a picture of the original piece on your phone (or bring it in if it’s not too large) and have an employee pick out a new item that matches the best.
While it may be a long shot to find a historically matching piece of trim or other necessary supplies for your renovation at a big box store, there is one option available to you for obtaining the necessary supplies: have a custom millwork company develop replacement pieces for your historic home.
Have A Millshop Custom-Mill Your Historic Building Supplies
If you can’t find the supplies you need to match your historical home, then why not have them built instead? A millshops that specialixe in custom building materials for historical homes can take a look at the old piece and your room in general, and hand-craft new pieces that are sure to refresh your home while keeping the charm that you love.
MRD Lumber Is The Custom Millshop For Eastern PA
MRD Lumber has significant experience making quality custom stairs, custom doors, custom trim and moudling, and custom built-ins and mantels for homeowners and contractors alike. Our team specializes in historical matching, and can create the perfect piece for your historic home, whether it is Victorian, Colonial, or any other type of historical architecture. We also specialize in building materials for custom-designed home and other special buildings.
If you want to learn more about MRD Lumber’s custom work, check out our inspiration gallery to see our prior work, or reach out for a free custom historical matching building supply consultation today!