Over a decade ago, I started my company restoring buildings that were several hundred years old. It began with a mansion in Douglasville, and from there we moved into historic churches and homes — some of the toughest, most unforgiving projects you can take on.
These are the projects I take the most pride in, and the ones I personally oversee. Historic restoration isn’t the same job as a standard repaint. It demands a different kind of patience, a different level of detail, and a real respect for what the building already is.
Right now we’re 28 days into a 35-day restoration on a 250-year-old church.
When we walked in, the overall moisture content of the surfaces was sitting at 32% — far too high to coat properly, and a recipe for failure if you rush it. Most of the real work in historic restoration happens before a drop of finish ever goes on. We properly prepared and restored every surface and brought that moisture content down from 32% to 2%. That alone is a major success, and it’s the kind of detail that determines whether a restoration lasts a few years or another century.
So far we’re roughly 800 hours into this single project. Not an area has gone untouched.
That’s what historic work asks of you. You can’t cut corners on a building that’s outlived everyone who first built it. You have to understand how it was made, what it’s been through, and what it needs — and then you do the slow, careful work that nobody sees but everybody benefits from.
The church looks brand new. I can’t wait to share the finished results.
If you own a historic home, church, or building and you’re looking for someone who treats restoration as craftsmanship rather than just another paint job, that’s exactly the work my company was built on.