A case study: how to marry a 1930's colonial with a Modern addition.

Brent wraps up his Utah talk with a great case study that shows how to tie 2 different houses together using moldings and trim. A wonderful 1930's colonial revival home was added on in the 60s with a very modern addition. Brent shows how by using moldings and historic precedent they brought the 2 styles together.
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[@pinkapples33]

Beautiful work making a very practical, modern addition feel cohesive with the original aesthetics and architecture of the house.

[@BrentHull]

Thank you very much!

[@jwcarter300]

What a transformation!

[@BrentHull]

Thank you.

[@pointnemo369]

Love the dedication and work you and Team Hull Millworks provide. Really appreciate the video lectures/lessons. Though I prefer for myself a more sparse minimalist approach I am going to take what I am learning from the past and try to tell a story with simple minimal lines.

[@BrentHull]

I think that is a great idea. Keep me posted on how it goes.

[@theofarmmanager267]

I have long said that an addition to a character house does not have to copy all the aesthetics of the original parts. The danger in that argument is that you build something that’s incongruous to the original - and I believe the addition to this house, when built, was exactly that. What I think is so good about the remodel of the addition is that it takes a couple of themes from the original and that ties in the addition to the original. So the owners get, for instance, all the light from those large windows but not at the expense of incongruity.
That’s not to say that I don’t like modern, open plan buildings with light flooding in - our barn conversion was deliberately defined to be exactly that but we don’t have an “original” that we have to tie into.
Certainly, here in the UK, nothing in building is cheap. A very ordinary (not well built) new average-size home build comes in at around £1500 per square metre on top of the land costs. I would guess that you have to pay £2000 per square metre to get something that is well designed and well built. As you go to a larger house, that cost comes down because internal spaces are cheaper to build than exterior walls. My point is that, at any point on the scale of size of houses, the difference between a build of just acceptable quality and a build of real design is not that much. Perhaps that £2000 per square metre jumps by 10% - but the quality jumps by 80%. All the thoughts and ideas that we went through in our design process of what we wanted and what we didn’t want, did not cost a penny.

[@BrentHull]

Thanks! I appreciate your perspective. .

[@lizzapaolia959]

Fantastic video, thank you for sharing your videos.

[@BrentHull]

Thanks for watching!

[@robertbamford8266]

The chair rail treatment seems to offer real possibilities even for a bland ‘70s ranch.

[@BrentHull]

I agree. THanks

[@ccwnyc5671]

That hall is just stunning.
Is it the same glass panels and you divided the light? Thank you

[@BrentHull]

Yes, it is! Thanks.

[@Fedgery007]

Wow!

[@BrentHull]

Thanks for watching.

[@CH-sl5eq]

Wish I could see the photos better as he is speaking.
Edit* Ok, at 1:46 the side by side is stunning.

[@BrentHull]

Noted, thanks.