Impressive Makeover at 28 Jackson Place
[nggallery id=”48583″ template=galleryview] We;re quite smitten with this renovation that’s underway at 28 Jackson Place, a sweet little block tucked away in South Slope. The front facade is totally done and workers had just gotten started on the side wall when we went by. There’s a Property Shark picture of the home pre-renovation after the…
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We;re quite smitten with this renovation that’s underway at 28 Jackson Place, a sweet little block tucked away in South Slope. The front facade is totally done and workers had just gotten started on the side wall when we went by. There’s a Property Shark picture of the home pre-renovation after the jump.
Really pretty. I’ve seen the sign…yes it’s Perfect Renovation.
Thanks, I will totally check out Perfect Renovation.
Dave, you are so very very very welcome to check out our place any time. We would love to have you over. Email me at moparbrownstoner at gmail. We don’t live in one of those early places, though. It’s totally late Victorian (Eastlake/Aesthetic Movement) gingerbread — currently masquerading as a 1950s suburban ranch house, unfortunately.
While this is a relatively simple look, it’s also real easy to screw it up and God is in the details.
Kudos to the builder/designer in this case. They made sure to end/start the siding courses level with window tops and bottoms, the cornice scale is good, they kept the door and window heights on the same level, little things that you don’t think you notice really make a difference in the overall appearence. Unfortunately, there are a lot of builders out there who don’t pay attention to the little things, so you can have two different jobs with different contractors, both with the same budget, one comes out great, one, not so much. The scary part is, I don’t think it’s always a case of contractors who don’t care, or are unscrupulous, but many times a case of not knowing the right way to do things. It’s scary how many hacks there are out there. Makes me appreciate people who obviously know what they are talking about like Master Plumber and Montrose Morris all that much more.
mopar, I didn’t know you had that style house. Would love to see it someday. I have a soft spot for the older clapboards over the brownstones. Heresy but I admit to it here in front of everyone!!
FYI..I have used Hardi board on two houses and LOVE it.
I think this one was done by perfect renovation. Remember taking notes on it before we did our own.
T&A Construction or Carpentry has done about 50 of these facades throughout the ‘hood, they are all the same with the same awning over the door and the same window trim. Personally a few look good but if you have a block of ’em, it will look like a movie set. I don’t want to live on a movie set. A house on 12th street above 5th used fish scale shingles, that deserves a photo.
Awesome job. There is a great block of clapboards restored in downtown Jersey City in the Hamilton Park neighborhood on 8th Street. There is probably 15 clapboards all with front porches restored in all different colors back to back and across the street from each other. It’s one of my fav blocks. Google street view (link) doesn’t do it justice but still amazing.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=jersey+city&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Jersey+City,+Hudson,+New+Jersey&gl=us&ei=paOSTMCzJsaqlAe9qM2mCg&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA&ll=40.727234,-74.048817&spn=0.004252,0.014656&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.727239,-74.048924&panoid=H7WQtIXOXOiWZxS959WpeA&cbp=12,40.55,,0,-7.58
One would think eventually most of these aluminum siding jobs will eventually be restored. Imagine how beautiful the South Slope will be if that happens.
Very nice, crisp job, but you’d think from some of the comments that no one has done this before. Take a walk down 11th between 3rd & 4th, 13th-14th between 5th-7th, 15th between 6th-7th, or Webster Place. And yes, clapboard siding (hardi or wood) decent white casings and trim, and patternbook cornice plus a nice door and good windows will do the trick. You don’t need to do major historical research to get this look. And, if you use hardi, use the plain side, not the grain.
Joe, Denton, etc., I don’t know what the wooden houses in South Slope would have looked like originally, but the 1880s and 1890s wooden houses in Eastern Brooklyn were full on gingerbread just like in San Francisco (except, usually, without the bay windows of course). We have our tax photo and it’s a painted lady. Crazy to think how different the area looked once upon a time.
Minard, Dave, do you think we can restore ours exactly as in our tax photo? I didn’t realize that was possible. About how much more will all the detailing around the windows (sunrises, triangular hats, bells and whistles) add to the $20,000 estimate?
Also, can anyone venture a guess as to who makes these lovely two over two (just like ours) wooden windows?