Welcome to Our Victorian House.com. This website is dedicated to the restoration & preservation of Craig & Yvonne's 1875 Eastlake (Stick Style)Victorian home.  Please feel free to browse around.  This is not a "This Old House" kind of restoration like you see on TV.  We did almost all of the work ourselves, out of the sheer love of it. (frankly, we couldn't afford to pay someone to do it, so...)

NEWSFLASH!!!

We have decided to go Pro!

After a decade of restoration work we decided to open a Restoration Company of our own.  I pulled together a team of top notch tradesman to form Blackstone Architectural Restoration LLC.  If you know anyone in the Central New Jersey area with an old house in need of some love, we're the guys!

It is truly a blessing in life when you find what it is that you were born to do.  This is my passion and over the years I have found others who share the same passion that I do.  While working on my own home I found a satisfaction in the work that was unlike anything I had ever experienced in my professional life. There was no question that I needed to form a company in order to continue to do this work and share those experiences with the world.  If you have enjoyed my online journal of experiences over the years, please bookmark my new site as well, as I intend to document and post as we go along.  And if you need any restoration services, please contact me and maybe your home will be the next story.

 

Our Restoration Journey

Each of these buttons is another story of yet another project that we took on to get the house restored.

 

Before & After Gallery

It's easy to forget how bad this place used to look - Here is the reminder...

Just click on any of the pictures below to go to the Gallery page for that room.  When you get there just roll your mouse pointer over the pictures to see what it looked like when we started.

Picture walk-thru tour now available

Click here to watch...

 

      

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at:

CSchaible@Verizon.net

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This web site was last updated on 12/24/2009