Brent as a good doctor, all you need it is just find him plus budget. And in most cases result will be stunning.

If you don't leave enough solid flat wall above those arches, it will always look hokey. Arches holding up nothing look ridiculous.

That was great! I hate those shutters on the front of the house.

This house has so much potential . I love your ideas with applied mouldings . The x beams are horrible, they need to be removed immediately !

Nice collaboration! Get the most and the best out of the willing budget... Please keep it coming and thanks for sharing! 😁👍

Yes, that staircase is Colonial, but PLEASE don't even think of removing it. It's an incredible period detail and a hundred times better than anything made today. Just my two cents. Thanks!

Fascinating excellent lecture. Thank you for sharing your expertise

1:22 45,000 in 1959 dollars is 488k today.

It’s nice that your running around fixing other peoples mess but would you rather design a neighborhood of custom homes? Most of the custom builds lately are disappointing. Would love to see a master planned community similar to Newport coast but with Brent as lead architect and designer.

Hoping this becomes a full series, having spent a lot of time in Spain I love the authentic Mediterranean style, but I don’t see a lot of examples where I live now in South Australia, and certainly not good ones. It’s always good to get an architectural palate cleanser every once in a while.

This will be interesting to follow!

I could certainly forsee a reflection pool.

Now that I have learned what is wrong with the typical store-bought dentil trim, I can't "un-see" it, LOL! I have recently discovered your videos, and have been "geeking" out them-- thanks for sharing all this great information. The videos are so well done- you are a great teacher! I have a suggestion for another topic: Could you please do a video on how to use dentils and dentil blocks/modillions, in EXTERIOR trimwork, please? I personally would appreciate suggestions for adapting them for a modern day "colonials"? (I have heard them once referred to as "phony col-o-nees", LOL!) Where I live in Maryland, these modern -day brick "colonials" are everywhere (about as common as ranch homes are in Texas I think!) Could you make some suggestions for those of us with smaller colonials (and cooresponding smaller budgets) as well as for those who have larger homes and larger budgets to spend on trim? Thank you so much!

I have a Youngstown metal cabinet with double bowl porcelain sink with drain boards. My husband refurbished the metal to remove rust and then spray painted the metal with automobile paint. He did a beautiful job and I love the cabinet and sink. Those drain boards are wonderful. I loved seeing your Youngstown kitchen kit. What a find!

This was really useful. I have seen several of your videos since subscribing and have a question for you. I am an American but I live in France. I'm in the process of up-selling my house and am purchasing a Victorian home (1870's) in the Haute Vienne. It is in really bad shape overall and needs a lot of love but when finished she really will be a spectacular home. (I also love the fact that she made it through two world wars with minimal damage). Your channel speaks mostly to popular styles and moldings in the US. In terms of style, proportions, etc would your books translate to a home in Europe? This house was probably last updated about 70-80 years ago and I want to bring her back to her former glory as much as possible and that will include repairs to existing molding and adding chair rails where they were removed. I'm guessing there would be a lot of useful information in your books regarding proportion and scale. Is it possible to order them and have them shipped to my address here in France? Thanks.

WOW!!! Over the top awesome.

Brent, would it be possible for you to do a video in the shop, on the tools you use to make your knives on the molder. I just purchased a molder, but I don’t want to pay people to make my cutters, and sharpening them

Would love to see more about how to fix these after the fact, especially with ranch style homes.

I'm really enjoying watching your videos! I found you through a recommendation from Maria Killam. There are so many ranch style houses in our neighborhood and so many seem to just miss the mark. I love your insights, ideas and historical understanding of the elements to create a cohesive design. I also appreciate your hesitation with updating the exterior of your own home. I'm partial the the Colonial, but we have lived in two more ranch-style houses and just can't seem to get away from them! Keep the ranch updates coming! They're so relatable and relevant. As a suggestion for another time, how do you handle that hidden front door aspect of these homes? I guess just embrace it!

Excellent video

I can't believe UT said you couldn't teach a class there. I get Dwell magazine. The latest issue featured a house that looks like a children's museum and a disturbing article about how restoring historic homes is unfair to indigenous people. 🙄 Excuse me? Where's my ancestor's casino and my 200k graduation bonus?!!

I can't listen to someone who keeps saying the word "is" twice.

Thanks so much for this video. The sideways stud is a game changer. How is the inside finished? Do the cheek walls essentially become big drywall returns with no additional trim? Thanks again!

I suggest you make the phrase " unconcious fixation" part of your vocabulary. When a building fails to provide the subconcious mind with a nurturing composition , the subconcious mind can NOT fixate on it, so it must seek elsewhere, until it finds nutrition. This is an innate, uncontollable, inescapable physical need. We can not ignore this anymore than we can ignore our need to sleep. The subconcious mind is like a baby that needs regular nutrition. There is no use denying what it needs . Modern ideas about architecture have put us on a starvation diet. Modern architecture is harming us, and we don't realize it. Society is starving for beauty. Anne Sussman, and others came up with this, not me.🙂🙂

I’ve seen a lot of barns in my day. Never seen a barn with a “traditional” walk out basement lol

Great lecture. 👏 Do you have one just on Craftsman style? That is my favorite house style.

Beautiful

I can't find an example of a half-hip attached garage dormer, and I'd really like to know if it can be done.

Always fun and informative to watch your vlogs. The Mount Vernon Ladies Association was founded 1853 and that’s when the rescue of Washington home began. Thanks Brent!

The Craftsman movement was the last attempt by designers to apply beauty to the "workingman's home". It's odd to me that we both abandoned Craftsman, and also didn't replace it with anything else for a century. Instead it's rows and rows of snout houses for the regular Joes. Ironically, craftsman shapes would be cheaper to build than most snout houses with their mountain-range rooflines, zig-zag exterior walls, and oversized lots. More energy-efficient too, because the ratio of exterior walls to interior space was lower. How long until we see a craftsman revival?

You crack me up Brent. 😂

I am of the same stance with foam. It has a lot of long-term problems. What do you do with it when you want to renovate, upgrade the electrical/plumbing, and dispose of it? They are oil based, so when the oil degrades, the material falls apart. Just use the insulation bats.

I think the modern urbanist trends of mixed used development and trying to pare back zoning regulations might end up with better, or at least more interesting architecture. Mixed use might get architects back in to being comfortable designing for both residential and commercial projects. I think the predominace any non-detached single family residential being build to rent is a strong weight against that, possibly eeeing boring apartment block on top of boring strip mall, but there's a little more duplex and townhome development for sale happening. Zoning regulation often end up with the same final result of the McMansion, X feet setbacks, Y required open space, Z height limitations, P parking spaces. Eventually you end up with the biggest box you can legally fit on the smallest lot being the profit maximizing move for every home built in a city. Developers having to actually balance all these things for themselves and make hard choices might mean all the homes are different and people are able to find a home that perhaps doesn't fit the needs of most, but fits theirs.

I think you just might be a national treasure. I love your work Brent. Thank you.

Kuiken has a great lumber yards just wish they were open later on Saturday

energy efficient it is good but we need to figure out how to do it. Oh God is so correct. Seems in past people knows much more about it when now.

Thank you so much for these presentations, I very much appreciate the continuity of historical context. I understand these are a lot of work, I look forward to them...

Brent, what is your option or concerns about Post Frame construction for residential homes?

Brent, you were going to do a show on American Foursquares a few years ago but never got around to it. Just a reminder. If you want to talk about kit homes look up “Lustron houses” they were made of steel panels and the company was only in business from 1948-1950 before going bankrupt. They were “built” (assembled would be a better term) all over the country and many remain ( there is a webpage listing all the Lustron homes still standing in the US. A special truck containing all the parts and panel was used to deliver each home)

The way we design, build, and finance cities, neighborhoods, streets, and houses has a massive impact on everyone. We need to build smarter, not harder . We need to stop conning ourselves that the " modern, American way" promoted by big business to maximize profit is really the best we can do. Many homes, closets, and basements are filled with expensive toys gathering dust, that no longer make us happy. Yet, we need to cut corners when we build homes. Making a home should be a high priority. Collectively, we can and should reform how we build. Brent, your work is vital and important . Thank you.😊😊

Yessss! My house era is in this one. Thank you for sharing, so excited!

I don't think folks fully comprehend the impact of war on housing. From soldiers bringing building styles back "home" to the impact of modularity and new materials. My father bounced from one Pacific island to another with his naval aviation unit while living in metal quonset huts and plywood floors only to return back to a 1890s Mississippi farm house built of virgin longleaf pine & cypress with hand split shakes on the roof. Now I see "security" features in homes and public buildings that look out straight out of Baghdad's "Green Zone". As an American, I just hate this trend of walled in front courtyards. It throws up an impenetrable barrier between house and sidewalk/street. A real separation of home and neighborhood. The psychology is bad. Like we live on Mogadishu or Fallujah (or Mexico, alas). Little civic engagement, no sense of community.

Disneyland on drugs!!!😂😂😂

This talk is a walk down memory lane for me. There are so many parts that I wanted to comment on but, I realized that my comments meant something to me but wouldn't be important to be shared. LOVE your talks.

I love aladdin homes!

Has anyone ever seen Gustav Stickley and Brent Hull in the same room? I'm just saying....

Thanks for everything you do Brent!

You are like a guest lecturer that I would have seen in architecture school during the 1980's: very informative with loads of practical information.

I've been waiting for Part 2. What a fascinating lecture this was. Thanks again for making this available free. If I may contribute a correction at the 20:20 mark - the Chateau de Chambord was completed in 1547, and most of the castles in the Loire Valley date back to the 15th and 16th centuries. They're Renaissance buildings.

Arts and crafts... my favorite time in architecture and art 😍. Such a contrast from Victorian.