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.
OMG, look at the before and after! Hard to believe this is even possible.
We need to do this so badly.
Does anyone know who did this particular job? Any recs? Look at the porch — how do you fabricate that!? Emily, I wonder if you could get in touch with the owners and maybe they could tell us how to do it.
Very crisp revival restoration job! Jackson Place is eclectic like many of the blocks above 9th Street. It’s only a block long which adds to its charm. Across the street from this house you will find two side by side renovations with what you might call SS modernism (lower case m). http://imby.blogspot.com/2010_05_02_archive.html
Right smack in the middle of the block is this POS that sort of takes your breath away… the same way a dry cleaner bag might interact with an infant. http://imby.blogspot.com/2010_07_23_archive.html
Second what Minard said about how this simple stuff blows vanity architecture away. Esp. once you have a few of them standing near each other like on Webster place, for instance.
Trago/kmz- Having just done similar, it ran a little over 20K just for the front, and the biggest cost was refabricating the cornice from the intact but rotten one hidden under our siding.
I think that hardiplank would have been slightly cheaper. Also, I think that many of these firms keep a template from past cornice jobs, so if you don’t have one, you can pick from the book, and it’s not a big outlay for an architect. The job includes a reinsulation, resheathing and typically some sort of house seal in addition to the siding, so you get a great performance and noise benefit.
We just did the front. Add windows and it goes up. We kept our front windows, bless them. The ones on the second floor are original, and I didn’t want any interior dust and lead. However- this is still less than people pay for their decks in many cases, and it makes a world of difference to the house and to the block.
I did a Queen Anne Painted lady restoration in Chicago many years ago. I bought something covered in 8″ aluminum siding and restored it to clapboards, brackets, fretwork, the whole nine yards in two tones of green plus a bit of yellow and brown.
I’ll have to take a digital photo of the before and after pic that I have framed (many, many years ago) and post it.
Like Minard said, it’s not a difficult job. I designed it all myself and my carpenter did it all impeccibly well.
Denton- I know the one you’re talking about in WT. It’s on 17th btwn PPW and 10th. It looks really nice. I like how they made the stoop look like a tiny porch.
How much does something like this cost?
This is the sort of thing that drives certain architects crazy. Simple materials, simple details, nothing all that dazzling or innovative and yet the result is something that almost everyone loves. This is not what big design egos appreciate.
They are fairly easy to re-do, and they provide such satisfaction for the relative cost. I keep dreaming that more people will adopt the houses in my area and do this. Just a few on each block!