How to use Scale and Proportion to pick the best moldings for a room layout. 

That is a great question. I think everyone who is interested in traditional and classical design should find a designer who is like-minded. Whether that is a direction question in an interview or if you can see it in their work. Please realize that most architects and designers and NOT taught these ideas in school today. You can also try the website classicist.org. The members on that site will care about these ideas. Good luck!

You hold the money they want, they'll have to play by these rules. Like with any contractor, to get the result you want, you MUST know the job, write into the contract how it should be done, and control every step.

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@@thetubekid Yep. My favorite channel too. Watch every single one and follow their Instagram too. 😆

Great to hear! Let me know what else you'd like to see. Thanks.

Nice. Thanks.

Thank you!

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Thanks so much!

Excellent! Thanks for watching.

Thanks for the comments. Great question. Yes, panels too are part of the proportioning system. Yes, your talking about the rule of 3's. If you look for my video on Period Revival moldings I discuss panels and the rule of 3's. Thanks, and let me know what you think.

Agreed. A lot of great teaching there. Thanks for watching.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

I’m having a hard time figuring out where to look on their website. What I would love is to purchase drawings like you hold in your videos with proper scale rules according to specific orders. Any chance you could link me to where people can find them?

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Always welcome

More expensive because there is more of it. TONS better.

Thx!

Use your window sill cap for one.

We scale ours from historic homes and rooms. If you get my book Traditional American Rooms, it has scaled moldings that can help. I've added my kit link with other classical books in the description. Good luck.

@@BrentHull Thanks for the response! Great video!

Good question. I live in a 1962 version of that. These house of this period are hard to introduce classical ideas to because there is no ceiling height. I've settled on a good base and casing with a small crown. Punctuate openings and don't force it. Good luck.

That's a good question. I think the entablature is still 3 parts, cornice, frieze, architrave, but it does make me rethink the cornice. Thx

Working on it. THanks.

LOL, yes with Matt! He's awesome. We just shot a video in Baton Rouge. Look for those videos coming soon. Thx.

Word.

Good question, you mean a valance, I think. No books I've found, but I'll look. Thanks for watching.

Good question. When I did a room with a slanted ceiling, I choose the low wall and used that height to surround and ground the room. If your low wall is not to short, that is where I would start. Contemporary rooms are sometimes very hard to organize with classical ideas but it is worth the effort. Good luck. Let me know how it turns out.

thanks for the feedback.

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Ok, well let me know what you think. Thanks for watching.

@@BrentHull I’ve watched it 3 times and am struggling a little to take all the information in (blame my age; not your video). Well, everything you need to know is in the video. I will sketch out the dimensions and then reference various features that I come across against “the rules”. It’s going to be very interesting to match the features (that seem to work to me) against “the rules”. I have so much admiration for the classical designers that I’m prepared to bet that their “rule” are obeyed in the features that work. I’m a dreadful butterfly when it comes to projects. Here I am, in the middle of making storage units for my new workshop (so that I can work in an organised manner) whilst having some Morris chairs half made - and I’m sat here on a Sunday evening researching the proportions of a four-centred arch and a pseudo four-centred arch and thinking how I can make the templates (at least 5) necessary to turn out perhaps 10 internal doors and their frames. However, come Monday morning, I aim to be back in the workshop and nose to the grindstone making vertical and horizontal drawers plus all the figments. May I take the opportunity to wish you, your family and your colleagues a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.