Cottage Restoration

Since the mid 1990s Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum has taken many steps to restore the interior of the historic Cottage to its original appearance. As part of those efforts the Museum hired conservation firm EverGreene Painting Studios to stabilize and restore the decorative murals in the dining room, parlor, sitting room and front hall.

	Dining Room ceiling before
	Dining Room ceiling after

Using historical documentation, paint analysis and techniques for exposing earlier layers of paint, EverGreene was able to determine the original designs and colors of the murals, clean them of dirt, repair cracks, and restore the painted ceilings and walls to their appearance in the 1870s.