Fixing a Greek Revival farmhouse with stronger elements.
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Brent works on a house on a neo-Greek Revival home and strenghtens its elements with 3 fixes. Porch parts, trim and shutters.
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Agree 100%. All those simple elements are a huge improvement. Up scaling the first floor windows with 5-½” casing and the second floor windows with shutters is pure genius to dramatically improve the windows scale and proportion.
Noted. Thanks for watching.
Extraordinary how 3 or so easy fixes will transform that house!
Agreed. Thanks.
LOVE the addition of THOSE FLUTED COLUMNS!!! ♥️♥️♥️
Thx.
I appreciate your craft and your desire to teach and encourage others.
Thank you.
I think your relatively “simple” ideas have elevated this home, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Love the shutters just being on the second floor and the more intricate casing on the first, really works beautifully with this house. Awesome stuff!
nice. Thx.
This house is so "perfect" and symmetrical that I think the slight imperfection of the shutter against the downspout will help add character. It's a sort of charming compromise, and I think it highlights that both are functional pieces.
Three relatively easy projects, not a huge budget and they have a massive impact on changing the look of the central facade.
Agreed. Thx.
Love the droopy shutters
Thanks.
Pilaster at the portico is wonderful. Thanks for emphasizing that addition. Once again, Bang-on!
Agreed, they emphasize the fluted columns he’s suggested. It’s a nice but subtle touch!!
Nice. Thx.
brilliant improvement that creates character where is was lacking originally!
Thank you!
The portico with the increase height of the entablature with the addition of the half Pilaster makes this house more balanced . The cross headed corners with the back band and cornice details looks perfect ! Great video with awesome ideas .
Thank you
Nice. Thanks.
Agree, good stuff
Thx!
Brent if I may, “umph”, might I suggest the word “Stature”. Thanks another bang-on video.
Nice. Noted. thx.
Spot on, as ever!
Thanks!
I'm amazed by the columns at the Stuart Lee house. They just end at the porch.
YEP. Classical Greek Revival. No base.
As a lay person with limited design/construction experience but having a hefty appreciation for well designed homes and buildings - it is reassuring to know I am not alone in my disdain for most of the construction of this era, but more importantly to have someone like Brent to help me understand why. ***added comment - Brent, have you done a breakdown of the 1970’s modern that seems to taken cues from mid-century modern, though adding the sharp pitch offset roofs and all dark coloring and such?
No, but if you send me some picture examples I'd be interested in looking at it. Thanks. info@brenthull.com
Those windows look much better with a nice heftier casing. The portico looks better too. And the pilaster helps a whole lot. Check, Check, and Check.
Nice. Thanks.
This is a much more spaced-out and thinner portico. The additions are top heavy. The temple top has to go. Flat is where it's at. The crosseted windows clash with the squareness of the door surround. The biggest problem with this house is the brick stoop. Getting rid of all those busy mortar joints doing a 90 degree clash to the horizontal lines of the clapboards is job number one. I would replace them with large square stone tiles and do a single piece of stone for the step. I would increase the trim to 1X6.
Great fixes. I'd want shutters on the ground floor, too!
Noted. Thx.
Historically, shutters in the grand homes of the 18th and early 19th century were incorporated into the interior window casing. No exterior shutter on the ground floor windows is perfectly accurate for the present application.
That house could use those roof dormers aligned with the 1st and 2nd floor windows surrounding the portico. And those rain gutter downspouts would have been better around the corner of the main building's facade so that they didn't detract from the corner pilasters.
No chimneys? Feels like it's missing that top of the roof detail... which eludes that there are no hearths inside.
Noted. Thanks.
Indubuitably.
I hope this is a real project you are working. A super budget friendly spiff that will knock it out of the park.
It is. Thanks.
Greek key surround! some have the legs at slight angles tapering from bottom to top.
Yes, I love that.
1-¼” deep by 2” wide is standard brick mold used on most new construction windows, both lap siding and brick cladding. What is historical precedent? What should the brick mold width be for various situations?
Well, since there is no brick on this house it is mute point. But yes, that is a fairly standard size. On Fed and Georgian houses you'd often see a full architrave casing. 4-5" wide.
You da man
Thank you!
Brent, so true and spot on. Classic size and scale. Question, do you have any information that determines and balances the details for trim relative to the size of the opening? Truly appreciate all of the information and content that you give to all of us. Thanks for sharing... 😁👍
Of course. Yes, there is a relationship. It varies in different periods. Can be 1:6 though 1:8.
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Hello Brent, I’m a big fan of your videos. What type of wood sould be used for the casing? Can I use the same to do the cross head?
We are using sapele but most good exterior woods would work.
Nothing being done about those dwarf dormers?
Good easy solutions on the main elements.
Plenty of extra pie on those lasters.
Thanks.
Or maybe reposition the downspouts to drop down the lateral faces of the house rather than the front of the house.
A lot of work? Maybe.
But isn't the purpose of life the search for truth and beauty?
Good idea. Thanks. And YES!
What’s the precedent for 6/9 vs 9/6. We salvaged a set of windows out of a 1836 house, restored them, and put them in our house but they were made 9/6. Why was that?
It was a proportional relationship and also related to the size of glass that was widely available. There is good precedent for it in the Greek Revival period. FYI
Can I send you a picture of my house and get your opinion on what will make it look better?
Yes. But to do the sketch and analysis there is a fee. FYI. Info@brenthull.com
I wish I could afford you lol
Haha, I wish I could afford me. Thx.
Personally I don’t like the downspouts in front, I am of the opinion downspouts belong on the side so they are out of sight, but historical accuracy is important.
Noted. Thanks.