Where I gather my thoughts on the days window restoration projects, old houses, and rants. Hopefully, providing some education on antique windows along the way.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Historic vs. Antique Windows

I love having our work publicized (like the recent article in the Salem News) but I worry that we talk about the big, fancy projects and the public gets a false impression that only the Important (with a capital I) houses are worthy of restoration or have budgets big enough to afford this kind of work.

In reality, 98% of our work is average, everyday houses. The cost for average windows is a lot less than quoted project prices in the newspaper. But, there is no way a reporter is going to come out and write a story about Average Joe and his typical restoration project windows. And certainly I don't expect to have a story written about my ten minute fix of a 1979 casement window I did for a woman who couldn't get anyone else to come out for such a small project. We call these goodwill projects.

Historic windows, or those that are in significant houses and press worthy are good for the portfolio, but antique windows are our bread and butter, and quite frankly I like them better. I like houses that people are living in and opening and closing their windows and admiring how well they work after all those years.

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