About Us
Website history and purpose
I would feel so sad when I would drive around and see so many old homes being covered up with vinyl, or beautiful old windows being replaced with glaring white plastic junk. How can these people really think they are improving their home? How can people be so easily influenced to make such bad choices and waste their money? Someone needs to help these people and save their houses!
This was a battle too large for me to fight. Marketing this so-called 'home improvement' to the public is big business. So I thought the best way for me to fight the war on vinyl siding and replacement windows was to write an article about them on a website. I would keep paper copies of the articles in my car, and if I saw a house being 'worked' on, I would put a copy in their mailbox - although it was really too late for the homeowner to do anything at this point. As my knowledge increased and the website articles grew, there was too much paper used and this was environmentally wrong. I then started to promote the website online to spread the word.
Monkeyface Roginski
A wire-hair fox terrier, Monkeyface likes hanging out on her porch. She also likes to sneak off the porch and eat Mulberries off the ground. She usually sleeps when we work on the website or design projects, but is always very supportive.
Ken Roginski
Currently a resident in Freehold, New Jersey, Ken lives in a 1910 late Queen Anne Victorian house he restored, for which he received the Monmouth County Historic Preservation Award. Click here for restoration photos. The house was also on the Home & Garden network's TV show 'Restore America'.
Upon graduating college, Ken worked in the financial field. After attending the Burning Man Festival and becoming enlightened, Ken decided to switch to a career he believed in, where he could fulfill a purpose other than making stockholders rich. Upon returning to school and graduating from Drew University's Historic Preservation Program, Ken left his job at Dow Jones for the New Jersey Historic Trust, where he worked as a Senior Historic Preservation Specialist.
Ken once again made his way into everyone's homes when he was cast as a researcher and historian on a ten episode TV series on ghost hunting. The show 'Dead Tenants' was broadcasted by Discovery Network's - The Learning Channel and shown to viewers world wide. See the trailer for "Dead Tenants" here!
Dan Lane
Dan's been the webmaster for the Old House Guy website for the last several years. Dan doesn't have a background in historic preservation or old homes, but he feels he's learned much by being the webmaster on the Old House Guy web site. Go ahead, ask him something about windows or shutters. He might surprise you! If you have any questions or suggestions for the site, feel free to e-mail him at webmaster@oldhouseguy.com