Expert Historical Restorations
If your historic home or cottage is on the Historic Registry or has period details that you would like repaired, you’ll need a true historical restoration expert. Amateur work can significantly devalue your investment and damage the home you love!
Turn-of-the-century homes are not just houses. They are antiques that are exposed to the elements 24, 7. They are fragile. Repairing them without causing further damage requires expertise, specialty certifications, and meticulous care. As Northern Michigan’s vintage home restoration experts, we have decades of experience embracing the quirks of old homes and restoring them to their original elegance. A great example of a Top Choice historical restoration is the Victorian-era Rothschild Family Cottage in Charlevoix. See our gallery here!
Matching Paint, Matching Wood, Matching Detail
Anyone can throw a ladder on a truck and slap paint on siding. We fully restore your historic home to the glory of its heyday. Our craftsmen meticulously match existing colors and textures, then use only durable, high-quality finishes that will stand up to Michigan weather. When refinishing interior trim, we hand-select wood that is as close to the original substrate as possible, preserving authenticity. If your charming and original hard-wood floors are sagging, we carefully remove them, reinforce the underlying structure, reinstall them, and refinish them until they gleam. When we are through, our work will seem invisible. Your historic home will simply radiate health as if we’d “turned back the clock.”
Certified for Comprehensive Repairs
You can hire a painter, a lead-based paint abatement service, a carpenter, and a historian…or you can hire us. Top Choice Painting is trained, licensed, and certified to do the whole job, studs to shingles. We are prepared to handle whatever we uncover which keeps your project on schedule. We have worked extensively with the State of Michigan’s Historical Society and understand what types of additions and improvements add to an historic home’s value, and what types damage your investment. We have worked hard to become Northern Michigan’s historical restoration experts because we truly love classic homes. We wish every one of them could be restored with the respect it deserves. But let’s start with yours!
We are proud of our gallery of work – please check it out. Then read our reviews by satisfied customers and call today for a quote!