Building in the French Style. Getting the authentic details right.

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@ferraridan4883 11 ай бұрын

Incredible craftsman. I bet this home is at least $20 large or more. You get what you pay for. We have $10 million big vanilla boxes in Middle TN with zero craftsmanship. Such a shame. Most buyers have no eye for quality. You are an absolute master sir !

@BrentHull 11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@patrickhartmann166 Жыл бұрын

I’m so addicted to your channel. Im not in the trades, but have renovated some interesting large houses over the years. Whenever we look to buy a new house, I rarely look outside the 1890’s-1919 period. The 20’s weren’t too bad, but you have to beware of the stockbroker tudors built quickly on roaring twenties money. Hate seeing these old houses become neglected/torn down, it’s like erasing the memory of the craftsmen who built them. Not sure how you manage to get so much customization in today’s economy and shortage of workers, but are a breath of fresh air for a guy who thought quality died a 100 years ago. I truly thank you and appreciate your contribution.

@BrentHull Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks so much. Sounds like we love the same types of architecture. Thanks for your efforts in restoring these great homes.

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

Patrick, I'm so glad people like you find someone like Brent to learn from. Working on homes like you describe there's always a joke when someone opens a wall and saying "They don't build them like they used to..." and everyone in hesring says "Thank God!" Then a 30 second pause as you stair into the problem before you explain what the mess you found is. I love old houses but in fact the only thing we don't do better is joinery, since we now have better fasteners and glue we don't need it. Brent does a great job as an educator letting people know how to use our current skills to make better homes with these traditional details. In Denver the houses of that era to watch out for were silver boom money around the turn of the century. Guy working for me found newspaper articles where people were criticizing how "fast it was going up" durring construction in 1910. Nice mansion that a CEO brought back from the dead. But no amount of money can fix spongy floors and roof framing without it being a new house afterwards. I highly recommend doing press searches on new homes you look at. The society pages often had stories on people's new houses. Including all the gossip when things fell into lawsuits or something failed.

@tylerjenkins6088 3 жыл бұрын

This is beyond beautiful craftsmanship

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Cool, thanks!

@50Street21 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative, Brent. You certainly know your trade and I admire your appreciation and understanding of period details. So important to make it authentic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. For that, you have captured my interest and I have just subscribed. Cheers! Darryl

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I really appreciate that! Keep the comments coming.

@piggly-wiggly Жыл бұрын

I think that idea of "growing over time" is, curiously, the design intent of so many McMansions. As this house shows, "growing over time" doesn't mean you throw a bunch of dissimilar details together that never could've arisen out of any realistic series of additions and remodellings. You really need to have a coherent story that tells the imagined life of the house, a story that respects the design options that would've been available to the homeowners at the time and the functional requirements that would've driven their selection.

@BrentHull Жыл бұрын

Exactly!! Very well said!!

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

You nailed it. The most common one on older house that people get wrong is the "garage wing". Carriage houses were obviously completely separate, then connected to the house later often with a slightly lower roof line so you weren't redoing both roofs. This is often done badly as a single roofline from the house across the mud room ect.. to a gable end over the the garage.

@tc9148 3 жыл бұрын

Love the kitchen cabinet detail, awesome!

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@jonlebon5086 3 жыл бұрын

As a stucco contractor I appreciate the detail of the wall layout, zip board followed by block and finally traditional stucco. I’ve always known that stucco on wood has a dissimilar relationship, hence why I get more builders and architects choosing EIFS up here in the northeast, one for the point that you made and two for the insulation. Houses in the northeast get very cold in the winter and extremely hot in the summer, the movement is inviting cracks with cement stucco.

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

Jon & Brent, What kind of stucco products and additives do you use on exposed concrete or block? I'm looking into European style microcement options.

@seanmcguire7974 3 жыл бұрын

You are a master at wood, esp trim moulding. 👌

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@crossroadschronicles4647 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible construction

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

Great walk through Brent, perfect pacing. Sometimes, you over explain trim details and include more foundational information. This one is perfect because it was very concise. Great house, of course. That kitchen trim/cabinet screams amazing clients. High end and other terms are always co-oped by lower level work, so I started saying top tier homes 15 years ago. No matter what trends or terms that are in fashion the term top tier cannot be co-oped. It helps a lot with subcontractors and workers to let them know to default to going a step further on their work. This house defines top tier home construction. I'm saving this video to have subs watch after they brag that they have done high end work and have 15-20 years of experience. I think videos like this inspire a lot of people to be better workers, when they see this kind of work.

@BrentHull 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much.

@acchaladka 3 жыл бұрын

Salutations de Montréal, Québec. The houses in my neighbourhood are almost all in this style as you can imagine and there's a whole community of woodworker pros, Masons and stone workers to support the historic homes ranging from about 1600 to pre- war. The most popular style at the moment for new homes is Scandinavian clean with ply wood interior walls, but you doing a tour with a camera here would probably be super interesting.

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds great. I need to make that trip. Thanks

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

@BrentHull yeah Brent, Quebec has a lot of amazing craftsmen that are supported by their historic standards. Building new government buildings and updating older buildings seems to be the base. They don't market much because people lose their enthusiasm once they here pricing. I think a lot of products that are price in the range of things like Hope windows could be custom built in Montreal. Not cheaper but a better product. I haven't looked for trades there in 15 years so I presume more are online now. Maybe price an office or kitchen in metric and I bet you could get cabinets brought in as 10' by 10' pieces. That would be a bit of work at the design stage for the install. Maybe start with a pool powder room, butlers pantry ect.... As I understand it they have better access to hardwoods also, but maybe that's me in Colorado where everyone has better access to hardwood😊

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

And ACC always comment like this about Quebec trades, I think they are under appreciated. I think they would do great as traveling crews on homes like these. FYI I've worked on plenty of homes where a crew is brought in for a month or there because of the relationship with the designer or architect. Mostly done on finishes where they don't want to risk a new company they don't know.

@seanmcguire7974 3 жыл бұрын

Cross setted corner or whatever they're called are done alot in Scottish manor houses too. Taking the French influence.

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that is one place I need to visit.

@DrMJJr Жыл бұрын

I’ve always loved French Eclectic with the flared eaves, and steeply hipped roofs…but is that limestone lintels, sills, and quoins? Not crazy about such low wainscoting but the moldings are beautiful. I’m a big fan of dentil at the cornices though. Very beautiful work…usually this style employs casement windows if memory serves me correctly??

@BrentHull Жыл бұрын

Thanks, and yes a casement is most typical. Cheers.

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

I think the camera made the wainscoting look a bit low. Keep in mind rising wainscoting has destroyed proportions and scale in 99% of the homes its used in over the last 30 years. Knowing it's wrong but not knowing what's right to use is why Brent is so valuable. Can't remember all the times working on a house someone would say "is the owner here?", "Nope." Then everyone is yeah there something wrong here is just wrong, or to much, or not enough or......... Emailed links to Brent to everyone I work with now.

@sparksmcgee6641 8 ай бұрын

Hope this still pops up on an old video. Brent, Have you used stucco or microcement on walls without baseboard? Old places I've seen it would be areas like the carriage and work areas . I remember it as stone floor with more rough and uneven pieces since they're the leftovers from the house.

@BrentHull 8 ай бұрын

Hi, i have not, sounds interesting.

@Bnewton43 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the entire home is built of block, and if so did you install lathe or any moisture gap material for the front exterior stucco? Or is it the same assembly you have described in the back porch living area.

@BrentHull 3 жыл бұрын

The Block is our cladding. So we have 2x6 framing, zip board, air gap then block. FYI

@Bnewton43 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrentHull Thank you for that. Outstanding job by the way