HANSVILLE — The U.S. Lighthouse Society tried to leave no detail spared as it renovated an unassuming Point No Point light keeper’s workshop this winter.

Inside, layers of paint were stripped away to reveal the worm-eaten original wood floors. Outside, the little outbuilding has a trim new paint job and even its old rain gutters have been replaced with a traditional gutter made of copper and wood.

“A few people have stopped and asked what they were,” Lighthouse Society Executive Director Jeff Gales said.

The Society hopes its attention to historical accuracy is noticed.

With several more major renovation projects in the works, the Society wants to prove to grantors and the public it can dig in and do renovation the right way.

“We didn’t want to just cover things up,” Gales said.

The Lighthouse Society, a national nonprofit that rents space in the Point No Point lighthouse keeper’s quarters from Kitsap County, has its sights set on refurbishing the lighthouse tower itself.

It should have funding on the way for the renovation. Earlier this month it finished third in a regional Partners In Preservation grant competition, behind the schooner Adventuress and Seattle Town Hall. The strong showing means the Society is in a position to receive a large chunk of the $118,000 grant it requested. The money will go to repairing and weather sealing the 131-year-old tower, which is crumbling in places. Further in the future, the Society wants to renovate the two-story keeper’s quarters, which houses both the society’s headquarters and a vacation rental.

The renovation of the keeper’s workshop is a first step toward those larger goals.

Historically, the workshop was where the caretaker of the lighthouse repaired the equipment needed to keep the light shining and the grounds maintained. Recently it had fallen into disrepair, with sagging ceilings and leaking windows.

Last fall the Lighthouse Society was awarded a $72,000 C. Keith Birkenfeld Foundation grant to repair the workshop and reopen it to the public, and work was completed over the winter with cooperation from the county.

Half of the workshop will now serve as a gift shop, while the other half will be open for rotating exhibits. The first will be a history of lighthouse keepers and their tools, drawing from the Society’s collection. But the space will be open to organizations throughout to set up displays, as long as they have some relevance to the site and its history, Gales said.

An open house and ribbon cutting for the renovated keeper’s workshop will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday.