To be a Duluth contractor is to become familiar with a wide range of home building styles, standards and techniques. As diverse as the types of homes is the views on how to work with with your home’s history.
Some contractors and homeowners are of a “tear it down and start over” mentality. Some treat their homes as examples of living history and strive to preserve every architectural and design detail in its original state. And some take a blended approach. It’s important to choose a contractor who’s on your same wavelength when it comes to historic preservation.
Better World Builders has always had a concern for history in its work, but we haven’t been able to show you what we mean — until now.
We’re working on lining up a friend of ours, Rolf Hagberg, a commercial and fine art photographer, to do some shots of a historically sensitive project from last year. The architect wants to nominate for a Duluth Historic Preservation award (missed the deadline for this year already, but it’s already in the hopper for next).
While we’re at it, we hope Rolf can make some beautiful images of some of our historic-minded work from this summer, plus get some shots of the buff crew out there swinging hammers, looking thoughtful over plans, etc.
We’ll be working with the property owners to secure permission to post their projects here, but meanwhile we wanted to give you a heads up.
Bug me (Tom) about it in mid-July if you haven’t seen anything.
