We’ve been busy!

The biggest thing to happen over the last several months is that we moved into a new location. Thanks to the Northern Maine Development Coalition, we now own our own space in the City of Eastport! It took some time to get situated but we are set-up and ready to roll on window projects.

We wrapped up a number of projects too. Here is a before and after of four windows at the GAR building, owned by the Tides Institute. What an honor to restore these, and, oh what a project. Many of the rails needed to be replaced, stops needed to be made and so many dutchman repairs and Abatron Epoxy was used. Thanks to our friend Erik at Squire Millwork for Milling up the replacement parts! We’re thrilled with how these turned out.

Before:

After:

This one takes a bit of explaining. The clients have a gorgeous second empire home with a mansard roof and most of their original windows. We have been restoring all of them with this one exception. If you were to look in this window from the outside you would see the back of their kitchen cabinets and, obviously, it was a bit awkward from the inside.

What they decided to do was to keep the trim and dimension of the upper portion of the window opening and remove the lower portion of the opening - raising the sill to a spot comfortably above their kitchen counter. In place of the old windows, they had us install a Queen Anne window that matched the style of the original windows with the profiles and general design. It solved a design issue and brought some color and excitement to the house. Another contractor will be doing the finishing touches and installing clapboard under the new window. The whole house will be getting a new paint scheme which will make the white sash make more sense with the palette. Thanks again to Squire Millwork in Machias, ME for the constructing the sash!

Before:

After (and progress photos)