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Painting Your Victorian Front Door

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If you're lucky enough to own a Victorian home with its original front door, it's essential to approach painting it with caution.  Painting an elaborate door or even a more simple door can be tricky and can result in a mess if the colors and their placement are randomly placed. The goal is to enhance [...]

Monsters Attack 1908 Freehold NJ Home

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In 1908, a beautiful Late Queen Anne house was built in Freehold, New Jersey. This house stood proudly just outside Main Street of this once quaint town, exhibiting great architectural details representative of its time. Its beautiful, ornate Queen Anne windows allowed sunlight to dance through the rooms. However, in a turn of events that [...]

Window Screens

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Historically if one had wood storm windows they also had wood window screens. Wood screen windows are just like wood storm windows except there would be screens instead of glass. In my opinion this is an unnecessary luxury that takes up valuable storage space and detracts from curb appeal by hiding your windows. Adjustable Window [...]

Storm Windows, Window Screens & Curb Appeal

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Storm Windows have come a long way over the years. There are the old-fashioned wood storm windows of course. Then there are the bulky aluminum storm windows we all remember from the 1960's that looked like coke bottle eye glasses on your windows. This style has thankfully changed into a high efficiency storm window with [...]