Restoring Freeman

Picture 1 Mark Hertzberg at WrightinRacine.com has posted a new article about the challenges of restoring the Samuel Freeman House, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's California concrete block designs. Check it out here. Image copyright Mark Hertzberg [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:48:23

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Blu-ray Review: The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration

If any trilogy was going to get a large group of folks buying Blu-ray players I can't imagine the Godfather trilogy not being the one to do it. Fully restored and as I already pointed out before the picture has been completely color corrected to represent the warm, almost golden palette originally intended [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 05:50:44

Scaffolding

Great picture. The scaffolding is interesting, must have been during a restoration period. Edit: There is a contemporary photo saying the Sphinx is "'buttressed against war damage in the 1940’s." [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 14:43:32

Our home... some history

Yes, thats right... after months I can almost officially say her room is done. I say almost because we do still have (1) major task to accomplish... the restoration of those original hardwoord floors. We already have the stain ... many before pictures of the house at all... but believe you me... I definitely have them. To say [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 23:11:05

Those Missing Pictures

Because of a digital malfunction the nature of which I am unequipped to explain, ... of one photo being restored at a time. The staff has plenty to do and will undertake restoration ... the standard modern mea culpa in times of disaster large or small: we regret any inconvenience. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 20:53:47

It's VOX! It's What's Happening!

A friend of mine has been buying and restoring electric guitars and amps for a few years, now ... -after-Christmas house fire. But I digress...)I have a picture of me playing the VOX box around here somewhere, I just can't find it right now.What I did find, however, was a 35 year old picture I took [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 11:39:00

Holiday Gift Guide: Nifty Under Fifty (Ok, Maybe $55)

15 days, people. Do you have your stockings stuffed and presents purchased? Or are you a big bunch of impoverished procrastinators like me? ... Knocker in Antique Brass, $50, Restoration Hardware. Right: Vintage Lion’s Head Door Knocker, $45, BIN ... from top left: 1. Hand Door Knocker, $42, The French House. 2. Tiny picture of Hand and Ball Door [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:00:56

The Handpost

I like the way things change and stay the same.This first picture shows The Handpost in one of its earliest incarnations ... well have turned down. It had a blue carpet that fluffed blue dust with every step and a kitchen ... Williams. He had the air of a Restoration rake and drove a white van for a paint company based in Pill [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:20:00

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