# Historic House Restoration to be Admired

- Link: https://www.oldhouseguy.com/historic-house-restoration-to-be-admired/
- Published: 2013-04-17T22:20:00-04:00
- Author: Ken Roginski

[⌊enclosed porch before historic house restoration⌉⌊enclosed porch before historic
house restoration⌉[

Photo before historic house restoration

Historic house restoration in need!

Many people would look at this 19^(th) century house and admire it and be satisfied
with it as you see in the photo.

But Dan Miller, a retired teacher and his wife knew there was beauty hidden under
the aluminum siding just waiting to escape.

What wasn’t covered up with aluminum was lost during early remodeling when the porch
was enclosed. But the Millers understood the architecture of the house so they could
design a porch that would be right for the house and a full historic house restoration
was underway.

Dan’s wife designed the porch using designs from other porches in the area. Full
scale mockups of the details were made to get the scale right.

For the porch apron, Dan made four mockups and let neighbors vote on which one they
liked best.

Dan who also has a small woodworking business made the porch parts in the winter.
The whole porch took a summer to complete with the help of a contractor to reinforce
floor joists, make the roof, etc.

[⌊new historic front porch⌉⌊new historic front porch⌉[

Completed historic restoration.

**This is truly an amazing transformation.
 [To see a slide show of Dan’s restoration, click here ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/31300792@N08/sets/72157628315023645/show/).

To learn about [porch rail height, newel posts, and porch aprons and mistakes that make your porch look bad, click here ](https://www.oldhouseguy.com/porches).