Every home
has a maker.
Let's find yours.
A specialist who reads a house the way a carpenter reads grain — matching preservation-minded buyers with homes that still carry the weight of the hands that built them.
Current Market
14 Homes
with original millwork intact
These homes weren't designed.
They were reasoned.
1905
The year the Arts & Crafts movement reached American front porches
The Craftsman movement was a rebuke. A generation of builders looked at the industrial age and said: not in our houses.
Every tapered column, every exposed rafter tail, every mortise-and-tenon joint visible at the porch bracket — these weren't decorative choices. They were arguments. Arguments for honesty in materials. For the dignity of the craftsman's hand. For a house that shows you how it was made.
A century later, those arguments still hold. The question is whether the house in front of you still makes them — or whether three rounds of renovation have covered the bones in drywall and the windows in vinyl.
"I'm not selling houses. I'm helping people find the ones that were built to outlast the people who built them."
200+
Craftsman homes sold
18 yrs
Preservation focus
94%
Clients refer again
The vocabulary of
a well-made house.
Most buyers can feel when a house has it. Knowing the words means you can protect it — and spot when it's been stripped away.
Mortise & Tenon
Visible joinery at porch brackets and exposed beams. No screws. No shortcuts. The joint tells you how serious the builder was.
Original Millwork
Picture rails, built-in bookcases, coffered ceilings. When it's original, the wood has a patina no stain can replicate.
Leaded Glass
Transom windows and sidelights with geometric leading. Each pane slightly different — evidence of a glazier, not a factory.
Inglenook & Hearth
The fireplace as social architecture. Brick laid in common bond, a hearth wide enough to gather around, flanking built-in benches.
Tapered Columns
Square at top, wider at the base — the Craftsman signature. Sitting on a porch pier of clinker brick or river stone.
Pinned to the
drafting board.
Margaret walked into the first house and immediately pointed to a patch of drywall and said 'there's a built-in behind that.' She was right. We bought the house.
Theo & Priya Ramirez
Bought a 1912 four-square, Portland Heights
We'd been looking for two years. Other agents kept showing us renovated houses with 'character.' Margaret showed us what character actually looks like — and we stopped looking.
Constance Whitfield
Downsized into a 1924 bungalow, Laurelhurst
She found a leaded glass transom that had been painted over. Negotiated $18,000 off the price to restore it. That's not a realtor — that's an advocate.
James Okafor
Preservation investor, acquired 3 properties
4.9/ 5
Average client rating
312days
Days avg. time to close on desired home
$0
Homes sold that later failed preservation review
Homes that still
make the argument.
Leaded glass transom — original glazier, c.1911
2847 Sycamore Ave
Irvington, Portland · 1911 California Bungalow
$785,000
Staircase newel post — hand-turned quarter-sawn oak
514 NE Prescott St
Sabin, Portland · 1924 American Four-Square
$649,000
Porch bracket — mortise-and-tenon, no fasteners
1703 SE Oak
Buckman, Portland · 1918 Craftsman Cottage
$524,000
Not ready to buy?
Still worth knowing.
The Restoration Red Flags Checklist — 12 things to check before you make an offer on any pre-1940 home. What's salvageable, what's been ruined, and what to negotiate.
14 Craftsman homes — with original millwork, available now.