Historic Shed was founded by the preservation professionals at Preservation Resource, Inc. to meet the needs of Florida's historic homeowners for well-built, historically accurate products for their rehabilitation and restoration projects. We offer traditional wood window screens, screen doors, foundation lattice and garden gates in addition to custom designed outbuildings and storage sheds that complement and enhance historic homes and neighborhoods. Our sheds and garden buildings can serve a variety of purposes from simple tool storage to home offices, studios, or pool cabanas. We invite you to come to our site and browse.
Choosing a Wood Screen Door
Unfortunately, many owners of historic homes no longer have their original window and door screens. Because window screens are easily removed when in need of repair, they usually get stacked in the garage and added to the bottom of the To Do List. Wood screen doors typically get removed directly to the trash. The result is both a loss of historic character and a loss of comfort and function. For information about choosing a screen door for your historic home check out our post in the Historic Shed Blog.
The Perfect Home Office
One of the simplest ways to reduce significant overhead costs for many small business owners is to work from home. However, the idea of working from home makes many business people worried about how it will affect the balance between their professional and personal lives. One simple way to mitigate these concerns is to set up your home office outside of your home in a separate outbuilding. Read about creating the Perfect Home Office in our Historic Shed Blog.
Some Thoughts on Preservation and Sustainability
When you choose to repair and restore an existing home, you are performing the ultimate recycling project. Sustainable practice recommendations include considering the embodied energy of products in addition to the long-term energy savings. When a historic home is demolished, all the energy used to produce and assemble the home is wasted. Since the energy is already expended, preserving the home has much less impact on the environment.Historic Preservation reduces landfill wastes. Estimates vary, but it is commonly accepted that between 15% and 20% of municipal solid waste comes from construction and demolition projects. Obviously, landfill debris would be reduced if more people choose to preserve an existing building rather than demolish and build new. When true preservation practices are followed during historic home renovations ("repair rather than replace"), waste is reduced even more.Since most historic Florida buildings were built without air conditioning, they already utilize many energy saving featuresthat "green" designers are rediscovering. Items such as wide overhangs, operable windows with screens, screen doors, awnings and ceiling fans can reduce cooling costs when used during our more temperate months instead of relying on mechanical systems. In addition, historic buildings are often constructed of more durable materials than are readily available today.For more information on historic preservation and sustainability read Our Preservation Values, Our Green Historic Homes Part I and Our Green Historic Homes Part II.
Special Screen Offer
Due to a recent deal we found on screening materials, we are offering $10 off per wood window screen while supplies last on orders of 6 or more screens. Wood window screens add both function and character to historic homes. We offer sturdy traditional wood screens, painted to your color specification, with your choice of screening, complete with hardware. For more information on our traditional wood window screens go to our Screens page at HistoricShed.com.
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