This NEW Home looks like an OLD Mansion!

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In this episode of the Build Show Matt is visiting a new home in Ft Worth TX by Hull Homes that looks like a historic renovation! You’ll be amazed by the spaces and the craftsmanship of Builder Brent Hull and his team. Brent is also shooting videos for our new Network so be sure to check out his work on The Build Show Network too!
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[@Spaghetti989]

This is the most spectacular and yet tasteful house I have ever seen. Amazing woodwork. This is next level.

[@stuartcairnie9985]

Absolutely stunning work and attention to detail, every carpenters dream to have the opportunity to work on something like this.

[@AF-O6]

Not that I don’t appreciate that your a handsome man...but I’d sure prefer the camera person to focus on the detail while you talk vs focusing on you talking about a detail of which I only got a glimpse.

[@Whiffasaurus]

The focus going in and out in this video was rough for sure.

[@nellermann]

need B roll footage of the details edited in to this video. I know its time consuming and without full time production and editing crew.

[@jdrissel]

Yes, this kind of a shoot really could use two cameras or better yet, two passes with the same camera so you can vary the light between passes. In some places getting the exposure right on the people caused the house to be washed out. Grab a couple of interns and a small but bright light box for those details in dark corners. If you can't get two passes in, try getting a camera with really good high dynamic range performance. Look for at least 12 bit color and compress it a little in post production so it looks decent on 8 and 10 bit displays. Most of the post production compression can be done automatically, but with the extra data there you can fix somethings that just can't be fixed otherwise. Also I get the feeling that either Brent was not wearing a mic or it was not placed well. Lots of echo when Brent was speaking.

[@griffinhall8]

Matt should definitely incorporate b-roll

[@HistoricHomePlans]

Magnificent! I've spent my whole life studying Classical architecture and it's rare to see a modern project that actually gets the details right. This one does in every detail.

[@3lightsteps]

Wonderful home! It is nice to see a builder/architect that knows and understands all of the historical intricacies that are necessary to create such beauty today.

[@donaldnemcovsky4137]

True Craftsmanship is and has always been expensive. As it should be if a person spends the amount of time and effort it takes to become a true master craftsman. its not an easy thing to accomplish! Bravo for keeping alive a tradition of quality work and love of building somthing beautiful that will last for generations. This is somthing that is largely lost in this world of disposable everything. Keep up the good work!!!

[@publicmail2]

Getting those shutters on simple hinges to line up on both open and close, not easy.

[@CrankyHermit]

Thanks for this one, Matt. I'm inspired by Brent's sensitivity to craftsmanship and detail, and I'd say he's a valuable asset to your new Network project. This house, like most all of those grand American homes from the early 20th century, is a blend of styles adapted from European traditions. This has always been difficult to execute with taste, especially when working with fickle clients on a large scale. Applying borrowed architectural details as mere 'visual cues' can never succeed in giving a house an 'old soul'. But Brent seems deeply interested in communicating authentically, harmoniously and poetically with his design vocabulary. The guy's an artist. In other words, an old soul.

[@cptspinach]

I'm glad the owner of the house is going to such great lengths and spending what needs to be spent to create this truly beautiful house. This home owner is a modern-day patron of the crafts and trades. We need more 'rich' people like that in the world! This is money well-spent.

[@kermitefrog64]

This home has incredible looks and a feel the excites the heart.

[@devjyarn]

Congrats on building the channel into its own network. You've done a great job of developing your style and content over the years to be the best on KZbin. I always appreciate the mix of information and technology. With that said - please consider having a second camera, or having your camera person do a second pass through the spaces you're commenting on. Too often I'm confused because I can't see the details that you're talking about until you've already begun talking about the next thing.

[@o2boutdoors]

Geez, this build takes excess to excessive levels. Cool to see the craftsmanship and materials that go into a high-end build.

[@georgepalumbo1105]

I didn’t think you could even find the craftsman to build like this anymore. Just having access to the skills is a valuable asset. Locally.

[@yomomma5295]

More in depth look into the Millwork, please! The house is amazing,

[@chikken_soup]

Really like the architecture of this house

[@opendstudio7141]

Wow! How do you clean such acreage. It's Texas - dust storms, spiders, scorpions, snakes, 10,000,000,0000,000 bugs and dry chapped dead skin. :)

[@oltedders]

@@opendstudio7141 You say that like it's a bad thing.

[@lrknapp99]

Excellent addition to your show man! Love his explanations!

[@oltedders]

The title of this video should be "This NEW home has OLD money".

[@met9009]

Camera man please show the details they are talking about! Man is that annoying they just keep focused on the person talking...

[@jacksak]

Agree

[@beepsnbangs]

It's probably how the cameraman is being directed to shoot, but agree that it would be nice to dig into the project a bit more.

[@met9009]

@@beepsnbangs You know later they did say they didn't want to show any private spaces so maybe something was that direction in the beginning or a part of the house they didn't want shown. Would love to see the details they were talking about.

[@razorsedge7501]

That looks absolutely stunning. Love all the small details that make this place a masterpiece. I may not be a builder or architect, but I'm fascinated with how things mesh and work together to create something special. I'm in the middle of designing my own home and this is giving me a lot of ideas

[@troyharpstrite9165]

It's nice to see my mill work on video.

[@RyanLimbag]

Great collab. Thanks for the quality content Matt!!!

[@inarafiredragon01]

That house is truly a work of art, so much attention to detail !! And the interior roof 😍 The brick laying design on the second fireplace, so subtle but beautiful, not to mention the gorgeous woodwork throughout the house without looking overwhelming speaks very highly of Brent. Amazing!

[@greathornedowl3644]

Great video. Brent is a craftsman. Looks like a modern American castle. While I don't have the $$ for a build like this, does give ideas to incorporate into a smaller project. Making something new look old, attention to detail. In our older neighborhood stucco went over wood clapboard siding (with chicken wire) and after a few years water is absorbed through the stucco and the wood siding rots and falls off.

[@DoctorPrepperMD]

Yes. What sort of cost does craftsmanship like this cost today. Fun to have the cost of a similar home from that time period translated into today dollars and see how they compare!

[@TheFiremonkeyman]

I've got an older home with two original fireplace surrounds from 1899. The reconstruction cost on the two fireplaces is roughly $50k

[@MichaelNatrin]

Beautiful incredible home. Thanks for sharing.

[@ryanern18]

That millwork is just humbling. I'd love to hear from the guys that make that all happen

[@efraseleman55]

The actual craftsmen should be featured and promoted so they can be hired for their great talent not just the people taking credit for their work. The trades often get forgotten but they are the ones that make this possible!!!!!!

[@OwainMeadmaker]

Wow, just wow, absolutely beautiful work.

[@user-tv5dt3nm9y]

Hey, hey. Matt upping his game. Funny how the higher the ceiling the more detail. And, no doorways. Those are passages or passageways. Seems like there would be a great benefit in doing some measure of finish on the millwork before installation.

[@84bobcat]

Oh my! Great build!

[@slicktype001]

The coolest house you have down to date. The charm is out of this world.

[@jrbigger]

Absolutely gorgeous home.

[@AMJordanYT]

Absolutely stunning home. I love the idea of a new build that looks like a restoration.

[@aaroncottingham4048]

That Mill work is topnotch stuff right there, makes me want to go in my shop and build something

[@D8099.]

Stunning. I’ve been obsessed with sqaure modern for the last 20 years. But I can’t take my eyes off this. The house is like eye candy everywhere you look.

[@omnibuildersnz]

Man that is gotta be some of the best high end traditional building iv ever seen!!!! Amazing project would love to do something like this!!!!

[@cmm170526]

Authentic, or authenticity is the word that keeps coming to my mind. Great video 👍

[@WCW4469]

Oh the millwork in that house! I am drooling like Pavlov's dog.... Beautiful. I want to see more of this house!

[@seanstumpf4190]

The kitchen is as big as my entire home.

[@DrivingWithJake]

Very cool, amazing looking house that's for sure!

[@jonesconrad1]

I love how in Awe of the ceilings and space Matt is, the spaces are beautiful. Matt I don't know if you have but if you get the opportunity to visit Queens and Kings college Cambridge UK do it I think you'd like it (deffo no building science going on though), I was the same when I was sitting in there having a formal dinner I couldn't maintain conversation I was so in awe of the spaces.

[@DaveMcLain]

Wow that was really neat thanks for showing such a cool house.

[@benchippy8039]

PLEASE can we have more on the mill work, how to design it, how to build it up, what moulding go with what style. Excited for future videos,Brents addition might of made the build show my favourite channel

[@noconz0727]

This house is unbelievable. I'd love to know their budget

[@Recovering_Californian]

Unlimited.

[@noconz0727]

@ that's what I was imagining

[@cmm170526]

If you have to ask, well...

[@RyuaNesha]

I have to assume just like any other project like this that it's a couple where one is a pet fish trainer and the other is a dog masseuse, and their budget was 10 million.

[@jezza6575]

Triple that estimate and you’d be closer!

[@calvinjutila8270]

I (we?) would love to see the HVAC system in this AWSOME house!

[@gallaherchris]

Please give us an update video of this house when its finished. I love this house!

[@randyc754]

No words! WOW!

[@DriverDude100]

Incredible attention to detail.

[@andrewf9991]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@JamesBond-xq3tw]

Right ,right ,looks right

[@koenigjeffrey]

Great project. Can you talk about finishing the millwork on site vs. in the shop on this project?

[@zakiducky]

Even under construction this house is absolutely beautiful. I can’t even begin to fathom the budget for this one.

[@B30pt87]

What a house!

[@cherriledbetter1120]

Beautiful

[@carmichaelcourt3440]

That's some house! Amazing takes on old world carpentry. I would love to see how some of the trim work was done, especially the trim around the doorways. I would agree with some comments about the audio quality, it was patchy in places.

[@ashelyanderson2370]

This is amazing.

[@randyc754]

Amazing home!

[@seanmcguire7974]

15:35. Wow. That's a whole house by itself

[@tidalwaveprincess917]

This is so cool! I want to do this one day!

[@mee5ful]

Remind me of an old Cape Dutch style house. A plainer style. For Cape Town South Africa. But we build in stone

[@erikaostlund5229]

Amazing Home. Would take a few paralleled "Mr Fusion" reactors at max plume to provide HVAC, and Electrical Power here in NW Iowa. Love Brent's mill work. Our Victorian is mostly Quarter-Sawn White Oak on the main floor, beautiful stuff.

[@BillWhite]

Bravo! I am so impressed with this...I've wanted a modern more efficient home for a long time, but everything seemed to be too "modern" looking or just had that HomeDepot faux old world look. This is the level I dream at. We may be talking at some point!

[@raybrensike42]

Amazing.

[@tylerferrell2959]

Houses like this is why I subscribed to this page

[@scorpio6587]

Wow.

[@toddperry9860]

Wow!

[@TonyWadkins]

My new dream home !!!

[@bolotnikov84]

wow... nice project...

[@davidnielsen4490]

Beautiful house.

[@johnsmith9903]

As an ornamental smith excellent comment on casting selection.:)I am sure the smith involved had fun and that was a detail that would be nice to see in a follow up

[@RobertHorton1975]

Thanks for giving us this walkthrough. I found it a welcome antidote to the modernist hellscape...sorry "masterpiece" that Matt reviewed a few weeks back as part of the AIA Austin tour.

[@intravena]

love the caucasian kitchen

[@thetommantom]

My god that's a whole 2 story house, attic, AND basement all in one room with no walls or roof stuff in the way. Scale is so important. I always drive around and see houses with roofs latitudly or longitudely or porches or additions like some perfect math puzzle pieces that add up in a special way.

[@danielwandawn3070]

16:30 your face tells me. "im speechless" :D

[@jackpetrak1821]

I love this

[@CRlTICALMASS]

My favorite part is the squeaky door upon entry LOL

[@Casper51tfg]

I can only ever dream to have a house like that.

[@JerodMatlock]

It's fun to know that we can still build things like this

[@ryanroberts1104]

You can, only of you are a millionaire many times over.

[@efraseleman55]

Lets get the craftsmen on camera too they deserve it.

[@jdrissel]

Quarter-sawn white oak... That's really doing it right.

[@HistoricHomePlans]

Matt, can you explain that wall section again? What sort of block is he using exterior to the wood frame?

[@ndchick1]

Probably 6" CMU. That is how we prefer to do stucco.

[@lolMyke]

My kind of house 👍👍

[@chadcooper7348]

Beautiful work. Hull hits on all the key points: scale, proportion, depth/shadow lines, material, hierarchy... all evident in his millwork and the residence itself. And, the millwork doesn’t need to be extensive or complex. Remember his office tour and the simple wall treatment (bead board, 2x trim, qrtr round)? Tons of character with a select number of pieces. I love his windows! One of the more obvious flaws in construction the past 1/2 century is windows... they have zero to little depth at the exterior, in large part to how they are manufactured to be installed to the face of the exterior wall. Quicker installation, sure. But, it makes the house look paper thin. Also, check out the lite proportions via the muntins (grills)... all vertical. So many “traditional” windows today have poorly proportioned lites due to grill placement. Lites should never less than square. When I see horizontally proportion lites on a “tradition” exterior, I cringe. And, it’s a dead give away the house is either production housing or had a shite architect. Anyway... great stuff from Hull! Really looking forward to his continued contributions!!

[@ChazEvansdale]

Can a NEW Home have a OLD SOUL? No.... next question 😛 Definitely some great old soul type designs and feeling for sure. Great design that creates a soul of its own.

[@brianpetersen3429]

Looks like his next project will be a "Hearst Castle version 2".

[@jamesvigil707]

Brent is my kind of guy. Matt - build science Brent - build theology It is incredibly hard to make a new house feel like a home.

[@anthonyromano8565]

This house must belong to a pharmaceutical CEO.

[@benchippy8039]

Or a drug dealer... oh yeah

[@opendstudio7141]

No wonder some prescription meds have gone from $10 to $900.00 overnight for a 1 month supply!

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

Fort Worth... So Oil.

[@ALTJR]

No it's the new "chalet" of professor Xavier 😉🌱

[@atomicsmith]

@@KevinSmith-qi5yn 100 years ago, probably something else now.

[@ullakoponen2632]

Far too big for my taste but incredibly BEAUTIFUL!!!

[@Roy-vn8wh]

I know it looks more like a church then a house.

[@maggiep3129]

Love the craftsmanship (that roof!)...not sure about the house itself...don't like rooms that are so big they echo. It's a lonely sound. I really like that white oak that was used. Question: Is the white oak natural with no stain/treatment? It has that light tan/taupe look, especially in the library/office area and I want to know how that was achieved. It just looks slightly darker that natural white oak. If you have time to answer, I thank you very much!

[@DavidKirtley]

Interesting as a showpiece but I would be curious how you would implement a similar type of feel with shall we say, a more relateable scale?

[@oltedders]

That's not a consideration. "How do you make building on a grand scale small?" You don't.

[@oltedders]

@ Of course it can be done but then you end up with a house priced out of the market for its location. It will be unsellable should the need arise. Unless your building is on a unique site, it becomes impractical to to lavish such attention to detail on your home.

[@942687032679840126]

Very nice house. I like the overall architecture of the space, as well as the execution. I am assuming that the walls will be painted drywalls instead of colored veneer plaster which is a bit surprising considering the overall strive for authenticity in the project. Any idea why?

[@left4dead855]

You guys smile harder than a used car salesman that's ready to sink his teeth into my neck love the old feel of the house tho

[@jamesoncross7494]

Please show us more Matt! I wonder what the cost is? $1500 sq/ft?

[@rorybellamy2533]

i would like to see the Wood varnish and paint finishes

[@alanrcrews]

The trim is "substantial", this mass helps to provide "gravitas".

[@SB-me6qw]

Well that highlights the wealth gap in our country haha.

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

It's probably not out of reach for a transplant from California. A couple million in California is an upper middle class home.

[@scorpio6587]

Work harder.

[@mediamattersismycockholste562]

it highlights opportunity, not equality.

[@oltedders]

@@scorpio6587 Wealth on this scale is seldom earned, it's inherited.

[@SB-me6qw]

Lots of hard hard working people with out the benefit of being born a millionaire

[@darrellhicks6915]

Is Brent related to George Hull of Hull and Associates? I did many multi family truss designs for them years ago.

[@townsendliving9750]

I could build my dream home for the price of the fireplace and one of the shelves. But I need another 20 years of work before I'll be aloud to get a 30 year mortgage on it

[@glennrubel4326]

Holy cow, I wouldn't want this house. Can you imagine how much cleaning this monster requires.?

[@kickandblock]

John Wayne 30,000 a year is nothing.... 4K sqft with a small yard in a upper middle class neighborhood will run you 25-30k a year in Illinois taxes. This property plus acerage will easily run you 100k in just taxes...

[@toddedson5285]

@ Tax rate $25,000 per million approximately and the lot was at least $2,500,000.00. $20,000/month plus utilities? Then you have to furnish it. Then you have to have a full time maintenance/landscape manager and a house manager/assistant to handle the contract and seasonal labor. Fresh flower arrangements $$$ every week to complete the look. Definitely 24/7 monitored security with rapid response at a minimum. Good help is hard to find.....don't forget the nondisclosure agreements... Chef? ... $500,000.00 a year plus mortgage and insurance. Pocket change for some.

[@chadpurser]

What building science (if any?) does Brent incorporate into his "old school" houses?

[@oltedders]

Tacked on Tudor.

[@chadcooper7348]

Chad Purser :: What “building science” are you referring to? I bet Hull knows far more about the science of building than the vast majority of architects.

[@chadcooper7348]

oltedders :: Tacked on? lol You couldn’t be more incorrect. Also, that’s not “Tudor”.

[@oltedders]

@@chadcooper7348 Apparently you're not familiar with terms architects use for crappy house design.Tacked on Tudor and phony coloney (colonial); descriptive of common design themes in developer housing. And yes, those articulated rafter ends ARE tacked on.The inspiration for this design would have originally been built of laid ashlar masonry and timber framed roof and interior partions. If I were to describe the architechural style, I would call it Louis XIII, a popular late19th, early 20th century high end style based loosely on French chateaux C1600.

[@chadpurser]

@@chadcooper7348 Typical Build Show videos showcase new building materials, waterproofing, air sealing, etc. Since Brent seems to specialize in "classical" building techniques, I was wondering if he incorporates any of the new technologies that are maybe hidden.

[@sambennett5441]

Not bad for a storage barn...

[@wesleypatterson3277]

I noticed how he stated every piece of shelving is designed to be moved to another room and not intently adhered or affixed to the walls...yet... there are electrical boxes placed within the shelf cavities. Hypothetically speaking they could still be relocated but with a cutout in the shelf cavity. But what do I know.