#Restoration

When repairing the exterior brickwork of a historic Dresden home like the Moran House, you cannot simply use modern cement mortar from a hardware store. Old clay bricks are much softer and require a traditional lime-based mortar to allow the walls to...

Restoring a historic home means dealing with traditional plaster and lath walls instead of easy modern drywall. The Moran House was built by nailing thin wooden strips called lath to the wall studs, which were then covered with thick, heavy layers of...

Today I was admiring the original hardwood floors inside the Moran House. My dad, Richard, taught me so much about the old-growth timber that was used when the house was first constructed. Because the wood was harvested over a century ago, the grain...