The Architecture Behind a Classic Georgian Home in Greenwich
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2020
- Learn more about the traditional architectural details at this Classic Georgian project in Greenwich, CT from the architect himself, Douglas VanderHorn.
The residence's clean lines give it a contemporary yet classic elegance. The five bay main block of the façade features a pedimented center bay with its limestone ionic column portico and Palladian window above. The graduated slate roof above with limestone topped chimneys is accented by dormers with arch top windows. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This is my type of home. I absolutely love the Georgian style.
What a gorgeous house! What gives away the high levels of quality, to me, just from the outside, is the Palladian window over the front door. The arch is part of the window; unlike so many who slap a separate arch/transom on top of a standard window, this had to be custom made. Same with the three sets of arched doors to the backyard from one of the rooms shown. The entire DOOR is shaped with the arch, not a standard set of French doors plus arched top. That is serious custom-made money and is care that is matched by the detail at the tops of each chimney, the sublime mill work throughout and so much more. What a pleasure to see this sort of care in the building of a home, when so many other “upper-bracket” residences lack the reasons for the asking prices.
The entrance is glorious
An under appreciated aspect is the brick work. Superb Cambridge Bond. It adds a restrained elegance.
Agreed, but it looked flemish to my eye, with a running-bond on the chimneys.
Also nice to see an Ionic column with Entasis (instead of being an over simplified/cheap cylinder), and windows on each increasing floor with diminishing features (fewer panes, emphasises the height in scale).
Elegant. Good video. Thank you.
Beautifully executed!
So beautiful!
Great job!
Again, a fashion analogy, top-quality materials and construction quality are super-important! Georgian homes are gracious, but homey, with their elegant proportions and symmetry. I also love the beautiful moldings and other details. I’ve been an admirer, and student, of the Georgian English Country House, but Georgian is by far my favorite period, including its interior design, decor and furnishings, all my life. I have a vast library of books on the subject, some very old. In real life, I’m a retired geologist, but I can always dream! My home is, of course, decorated in the eclectic English Country House (not cottage) style. I love this style because anything up to about WWI age works well in it, many have newer elements, too, especially more modern art. My home is a Victorian (late, Queen Anne style), about as old as it gets here in California, but it does have some of the pleasing verticality and proportions of older homes, and beautiful interior moldings and other details. If I ever have to move, it will be difficult to get used to low 8-foot ceilings and squat picture, probably aluminum or plastic, windows. No plastic “wood” in my home. Unfortunately, our local reproduction molding resource, Victoriana, closed down before I could get everything I wanted, some original moldings are missing her and there. But, I got most rooms done, at least.
This house is incredible. Craftsmanship never goes out of style. The home is most likely $20 large or more.
It’s beautiful!
This is such a pretty house. The clean, classic black and white marble and white walls and woodwork is so timelessly beautiful! I love your idea of joining three rooms to create one large space--i.e., a ballroom, if you wish. Also, your explanation about using columns and beams to define each room in the one large space to create an inviting, cozy feeling is so important. Is this why I find contemporary/Modern architecture so cold and depressing? It has stripped away all the detail? Thank you for sharing your work!
When architects have the philosophy of “new house,old soul” and have a love of looking to the past for inspiration, I regain a little hope for a better world.
I would have been interested to hear about the lighting in the home as I'd imagine Georgian homes were dimly lit. It would have been interesting to see the home at night and what mood it cast 😀
If I could build my dream home, it would be in Georgian style, I love it. It’s hard to find any architects who will design in classic styles. Most will only build stupid-looking things like boxes with pimples on them! It’s like fashion, both types of designers only want to create radically “new” things, rather than what we really want to wear, or live in.
The only thing wrong is that it wasn’t atop of basement story, so the house is lifted up and that much more of an impression. The first floor should never be on ground level.
An upper mantle in the attic least one of the rooms would’ve been interesting.
I would examine very closely “Mount Pleasant” setting at Fairmont Park, Philadelphia to see a charming in sylvan beauty.
This is a beautiful spacious light home but I don't think ( as a British person who lives in a 1794 Georgian home) that this is disciplined enough to be Georgian.. it's an amalgamation of what Americans think Georgian is .. a good effort
Georgian style. Not Georgian. Much better than the abominations usually built in the US. Things evolve over time. I’d live here.
@@kurtvonfricken6829 yes I understood it wasn't Georgian. However, the style is not Georgian it's simply a created fantasy
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Please be more specific.
@@kurtvonfricken6829 It was so long ago I would now need to review the video to remember the house!..
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Ok, it's a 7-minute video. But I would like to hear what the problems are. This architect has a website with additional photographs.
That bar is the best feature by far!
If the owners of this place don’t have blow out parties every weekend, they need to move out and let someone who knows how to use it take over!
The Georgians understood restraint…
Mc Georgian
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Is this architecture or just pastiche...?
Painting everything white is the hallmark of an amateur.
This doesn't seem very Georgian to me.
Boring white interior!