Peeling away the onion layers of your home’s past can unlock decorating trends, carpentry technologies, or personal messages from the last century.
Previously, we mentioned how not all surprises unveiled in a vintage home demo are an unwelcome part of the remodeling process. Sometimes, these hidden treasures are a personal connection to your home’s past. A child’s toy tucked into a long-forgotten hiding place, correspondence from a former owner, or, as in the case of a house we recently renovated, the builders’ names, scratched into the wooden siding nearly one hundred years before.
