The Historic House Community: A tremendous opportunity for growth in knowledge, skill and a perpetually sustainable life.
Once upon a time an Army of Artisans made their way across America. They spent well over a century transforming an unending virgin forest into a massive historic house community. This community was built with the Spirit of Craftsmanship and the principles of perpetualism. Over time the Army aged, disbanded and dissolved, but their work, because of it’s Spirit and caliber, remained.
Now, many many lifetimes later the historic house community is calling on all who have the Spirit of the Artisan, to come back to the work to perform it, to give of themselves that she might release the knowledge embedded within her walls, blessing her servants with skill and a perpetually sustainable life.
Do you hear the call?
The Historic House Community is calling out for Artisans who:
- Understand the historic house in a hands-on way
- Understand the building science that put the historic house together
- Understand a historic house’s quirks and tendencies
- Can serve them and solve a historic historic house problem in a way that actually works with the fabric of historic building design.
This is an opportunity for those with an Artisan Spirit, especially those with preexisting experience in carpentry or painting, leadership and customer service ability to further their careers, increase their skill and make their way in an untapped market calling for help, to fulfill their destiny!
Endless Windows of Opportunity.
The Historic House Community in America is fertile soil that has been lying fallow for nearly a century. That means it has soil that is overdue for planting a garden producing fruit. It is a resource with millions of houses and millions of the exact same historic window. All need service!
They are woven together with the same disciplines of joinery, carpentry and finishing in a staggering array of designs and applications. Endless fields of historic house communities pepper the landscape of every state and county. They are along every major highway and at the end of every backroad. There are also thousands of potential Artisans willing and ready to serve the historic house community. Wood Window Makeover’s role is to act as a bridge to link the Historic House community and those potential Artisans.
Why is the Historic House Community Calling out for Carpenters and Painters?
It’s been almost one hundred years since Artisans have been actively involved in the historic house communities. Our current modern culture has electricians, plumbers and HVAC technicians, and it also has carpenters and painters. But times have changed and so have the ways of carpentry and painting. Most modern carpenters are now unfamiliar with tools and techniques that used to be common knowledge. Many have never even heard of Joinery. Same with painters. Materials and methods have changed for both trades, however the skills they have are the most readily adaptable to the techniques needed to produce the fruit of a Window Craft business.
A historic house is like a tapestry weaving the threads of joinery, carpentry and paint finishes in artistic, practical, and unique ways. Joinery is the discipline that makes all the components and functioning parts like doors, windows, paneling, cabinets, bookcases, tables, chairs, etc…. Carpentry is the discipline that assembles and weaves the threads of all of these components together in a meaningful and useful way, framing the structure, laying the floors, building the stairs, hanging the doors and windows, assembling the wainscot paneling, etc…. Finishing is the discipline that protects and beautifies the work of joinery and carpentry with decorative and protective paint finishes to complete the finished tapestry we know as the historic house.
10 Facts about the Historic House Community
- The majority of the houses were built between 1870 and 1940 and are filled with the exact same window
- For every commercial building with historic wood windows, there are 1000 historic houses with the exact same window.
- Stewards in the Historic House Community are constantly looking for Artisans.
- The void of qualified Artisans is currently only being filled with corporate, planned obsolescence solutions.
- The Historic House Community is accessed by way of the same skills that built them.
- The Historic House Community represents the largest underserved community in the skilled trades arena.
- Millions of Historic Houses means millions of historic wood windows. Mastery and momentum is easily obtained.
- The skills embedded within the historic wood window instantly transfer to the rest of the Historic House Community.
- The Historic House Community was built with the intention of being serviced.
- The Historic House Community ground has been lying fallow for so long that it’s ready to plant and grow Artisans.
