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Preservation, Restoration, Rehabilitation
for Denver, Colorado HomesLet's start with some TERMINOLOGY:
Here are some terms that are used extensively in Historic Preservation. They are mostly from the "Secretary of the Interior's Standards", per the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon.
PRESERVATION is a general term meaning "saving from destruction or deterioration old and historic buildings, sites, structures and objects and providing for their continued use by means of proper maintenance, restoration, rehabilitation or adaptive use." This typically is the lesser of the interventions in residential historic properties.
RESTORATION: "The act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later work or by the replacement of missing earlier work." Here we are talking about taking a room such as a bathroom and updating the fixtures and their supply lines, yet placing the motif to the period of time when the house was built.
REHABILITATION: "The act or process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical, architectural and cultural values." In this case, the plan is to bring a room of the building into current day functionality, such as a kitchen where nearly every aspect of the room is changed, yet the moldings, wall treatments, windows and doors are maintained in their original condition or restored to the home's original period of building. The terms REMODEL or RENOVATION are often confused or substituted for Rehabilitation. They typically, though not always, are not interchangeable.
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