Older properties are a hot commodity and recognized for beauty and historical value. Did you know you can get tax credit for historic restoration? Explore historic houses and mansions for inspiration in home restoration; featuring interior images, architectural drawings, landscape designs, floor plans, and history of the historic houses. Hundreds of pictures of old houses, quaint cottages and historic homes. With Historic Restoration Help, property owners can benefit from potential federal, state and local tax credits for improvements and renovations on historic properties.

Tin Ceiling Designs & Panels

Every tin ceiling can create the "Wow Factor." The tin ceiling, tin ceiling panels, or tin ceilings were popular from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century in farmhouses and Victorian houses as an affordable alternative to expensive, artistic plaster.

See Many Examples of the Tin Ceiling

Tax Credit for Home Restoration

Older properties are a hot commodity and recognized for beauty and historical value. Did you know you can get tax credit for residential restoration? Property owners can benefit from potential federal, state and local tax credits for improvements and renovations on historic properties. With all of these incentives, be sure to check the program requirements before starting any residential restoration.

Get Tax Credit for Home Restoration

Historic Houses and Mansions

Explore historic houses and mansions for inspiration in home restoration; featuring interior images, architectural drawings, landscape designs, floor plans, and history of the historic houses.

Explore Historic Houses

Victorian House Pictures

Hundreds of pictures of Victorian houses, quaint cottages and historic homes for inspiration for your next home restoration project. See barn home, cottage home, farmhouse home, and Victorian house for unique home decor ideas!

Water Damage Cleanup -
Where To Begin?

Where Did It Come From? Where to Begin? Address water damage immediately, for your house's sake and for your health. Water damage can begin with leaky pipes, broken appliances, drainage system clogs, basement walls, violent storms. Find it and cleanup.

Mold Removal

The actual process of mold removal depends on the type of mold and the extent of its contamination. Mold remediation can be dangerous and if there is toxic black mold present it should be removed by professionals using approved protection devices to prevent exposure.

Choosing a Water Damage Service

Not every Water Damage Service has the experience and the know how to get the job done right. Always look for a Water Damage Service that has a well-trained staff and that knows how to do a proper flood clean up, water damage restoration, water and/or sewage removal, mold removal or whatever the job calls for.

DIY Mold Removal

Planning on removing a water damage mold problem by yourself, then odds are you are wondering how to go about doing this safely. First it is important to take safety into account when you are dealing with household mold remediation and to be aware of all the health effects that can be caused by mold.

Tips for Dealing With Water Damage and Mold in the Home and Basement

Antique Tiles & Victorian Tiles

Victorian homes have splendid antique flooring -- entry ways, baths, porches and hallways -- using encaustic and geometric tile floors. Encaustic tiles were individually patterned, geometrics were small, plain tiles that fit together to make a pattern of squares, triangles or diamonds.

Antique Tile Pictures & Ideas

Windows

Window treatments and window decor for the home. Need wood blinds for your old home? Find pictures of styles of indoor and outdoor wood blinds for the Victorian home. Create beautiful window treatments with designs from the turn-of-the-century.

Shutters, Window Blinds, Window Curtains

Historic Garden Design

Explore a famous historic garden that blooms year after year. Choose from the many in Europe and America - Biltmore House, Williamsburg, and Chatsworth home. Find Historic Garden Pictures for inspiration for your own garden design or landscape design. A historic garden represents the true art of gardening.

Playhouses

An 1893 outdoor Victorian Playhouse and plan.

Playhouse Plans, 1890  
Architectural drawings for a Victorian playhouse found on "Millionaire's Row."

Outdoor Playhouses 1850-1930  
Photographs of real outdoor playhouses made for children.

Mantles and Fireplaces

After the house is plastered the finished fireplace is built, usually by the parties furnishing the material, unless it is of brick, when the work may be done by any skilled brick mason. A large number of fireplaces are built with fire brick linings and tile facings and hearths, with wooden mantels.

Old Home Fireplaces and Mantles

More Victorian House Resources

Architectural Design & Restoration: Societies and Organizations to help with your Victorian house restoration. Google Maps Help w/ Remodeling?  Stroll through the streets of San Francisco to examine the famous "painted ladies" for inspiration for your restoration project. Victorian House Tour: Tour a Victorian treasure.Victorian Architectural Ornament: Gothom Inc., a manufacturer of custom Victorian style architectural ornament, is profiled. Asbestos Use: Renovating your old home?  Victorians raved about asbestos and used it often in construction and decorating. Asbestos is a known carcinogen.