Second Century Homes specializes in the renovation and restoration of homes and properties over 100 years old. When finished, our work will enable the home or property to provide another 100 years of shelter and service to it's owners or residents. We can restore wood windows, wood doors, and just about anything inside the home, including textured wallpaper (like anaglypta and lincrusta), wood stairs, plaster and lathe walls, hardwood floors and custom casework. We also provide design and build services using 3-D CAD software for total renovation projects (full gut) and demolition services when needed.
We offer unique services such as cataloging and photographing historic characteristics of a room before renovation to ensure total matching of old and new materials, and green remodeling that recycles materials generated during the demolition process back into the renovated structure. We fully embrace energy efficiency standards (such as LEED and USGBC) and materials, including photovoltaic (solar) and radiant floor heating. We can offer alternative approaches to traditional methods of heating and cooling such as geothermal and mini-split units.
We give back to the community through a variety of in-kind skilled services donations exceeding several thousand dollars per year. This includes serving on the Board of Directors of "Rebuilding Together Baltimore", a local non-profit that provides free repair services to elderly and disabled homeowners, working as a skilled volunteer for Rebuilding Together Baltimore, and presenting free semi-monthly home repair workshops at "The Loading Dock", a local non-profit reclaimed materials warehouse. As a Maryland MHIC contractor we are licensed and insured. We also know how to run projects on-time and on-budget. Senior members of the company have been certified as Professional Project Managers by the Project Management Institute since 1998.
Our work reflects our belief that doing things right takes time, often more time than expected, due to the unknowns that are common to older homes. But if it takes another week to properly finish a project that will last 100 years instead of another 10 years, we think it is worth the extra effort and investment. We would be pleased to talk with you about your upcoming project. We specialize in rowhomes, historic properties and complex projects. Just give us a call or send a brief email.