Portfolio — 2026
Exterior Restoration
A house taken back to sound wood and finished again in a clean, even white — rotten trim cut out and replaced, an unusable deck repaired and given new stairs, fresh lattice and cedar where it was needed, and a self-cleaning coating over all of it.
The deck was the part that could not wait. It had stopped being usable, and the stairs with it, so it was repaired properly rather than patched, and new stairs were set down to the lawn. The lattice underneath came off and went back new, which is the difference between a porch that looks finished and one that looks propped up.
Around the rest of the house the work was carpentry. Trim was cut out wherever the wood had softened and replaced rather than filled, and cedar went in where the exposure justified it — the faces that take the weather rather than every board on the building. A concrete pad was laid where one was needed.
Then the whole house was painted, and the coating was chosen rather than defaulted to: Emerald Rain Refresh, which sheds dirt as it rains instead of holding it. On a coastal elevation under live oaks, that is the difference between white that stays white and white that needs washing every season.
None of it announces itself. That is the point of an exterior — from the street it should read as a house that has been looked after, not one that has just been worked on.
