Now is the time to enhance the curb appeal of your Ornate and decorative, Victorian home. There are a few types of Victorian homes which include Italianate, Queen Anne Victorian, Gothic Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Shingle and Stick style homes that feature intricate rooflines, ornate porches with shingles or narrow-lap wood siding, decorative trim, spindle work and clapboard siding.
Victorian home restoration
Our trained estimators have years of experience and are able to provide you with an accurate price, estimation of materials and time required to complete the job up front. Our mission is to ensure your project is done right and to your satisfaction.
Our work philosophy known by our customers as GIKAS the WIZARD is creatively carried from project to project enhancing your Victorian home with texture, colors and details in order to comprehensively restore its charming unique properties.
New Jersey weather can wreak havoc on the exterior elements of your Victorian home
Like most things of beauty, your Victorian lady with its ornate exterior decorations, dramatic cupolas, looming towers, fancy turrets, rounded porches and balustrades needs special attention. Most of the homes with Victorian architecture were built between 1840 and early 1900’s and were built as a result of the Industrial Revolution and railroads. We’ve painted and renovated hundreds of Victorian homes in NJ and our pictures tell the whole story.
We understand colour placement is the most important feature and requires an understanding of your building’s architecture. A Victorian home‘s exterior is comprised of at least three colours; some have as many as nine different hues and shades. Darker colors are meant to enhance unique architectural details, and outlining windows lends character to the home.
Remodeling Your Victorian Home In Jersey – Victorian restoration
The inevitable remodeling question, Victorian restoration, even if you‘re not planning to sell your home is, what remodeling choices offer the highest returns on your home investment while providing additional comfort and or living space. Some home renovations provide more return on investment than others like decks and patios are the most popular choices and offer a high return on investment and extend your living space outdoors .
Basic home maintenance, Victorian restoration such as new siding and repairs is the most visible and can increase the appeal. Siding replacement can recoup as much as 85 percent of its cost.
Also consider adding more space, remodeling your kitchen or updating your bathroom, replacing or removing your siding, Interior exterior painting and structural repairs can add up to 75% of return. One home improvement likely to return more at resale is replacing roofs and windows, returning 80 percent or more at resale. If the roof is leaking, buyers won’t get beyond that. Call a Professional New Jersey Victorian Renovation, interior exterior Painting, & carpentry contractor Services in Jersey, Gikas.