Omg love that you watch her channel and actually saw this. Luv ur channel! Such a fan ! Maybe one day I’ll be lucky enough to meet you one day! Keep up the awesome videos. Although hard going and at times gruesome it’s still framed as a beautiful and enlightening look Into our past. 💜 so cool 😁 Living simply is actually a lot more complicated. That’s what channels like yours and others that show true life Situations have made me see and learn from. And that our past needs to be recalled and remembered, so we don’t continue the same mistakes into our futures.
I love how you let people tell their stories punctuated with "still" video with no voice. This is one of the best channels on RU-vid! And kudos to this man's preservation efforts.
What a fascinating story! Loved the relationship he has with the old structure. “ I don’t know why it’s worth it, but it is.” Thank you Kirsten Dirksen for bringing these amazing videos on your channel.
It must be amazing to lay there and spend the night, knowing that 300 years ago someone else in a completely different time, was laid in that exact same spot, protected from the elements by those exact beams...
billieblue Sheepie I think just like you. When I go to historic places I am always in awe that I am standing where another stood hundreds of years before. When you touch something ancient you can almost feel the energy and passage of time through your fingers.
@@nikiannecoleman Have to agree with you. After standing in ancient buildings of Europe, it's hard to explain to others who have not traveled as I, the massive age of other places, buildings.
Agree, but I don't think he sleeps there. I think this is their office and/or the company's office, and perhaps guest bedrooms. I suspect they actually live in the much larger house 20' away.
I've been watching your channel for a long time now in order to gain inspiration for when I eventually create a house of my own. I've been fascinated by your videos and was excited when I came across this video of a house that is only a few miles away from my hometown in Shropshire, England (the next county along from Herefordshire). What an amazing restoration project, using a mix of incredibly old and locally sourced materials and workers to complete the job! One of the most captivating videos yet, its up there with one of my personal favourites Charles Bello's NorCal redwood paradise. Keep up the great work!
This is true appreciation of what once was. What was nearly long gone and forgotten has been given a second chance at life by the dedication of human touch; that is what makes this home such a unique and remarkable piece of art.
That mighty oak, that superb dwelling. Hallelujah! We are deconstructing a 1947 timber one room school, to rebuild in our back yard. And believe me the empty bottles, coiled fencing wire, hay bale twine, old letters and every decrepit but beautiful piece of timber will be retained and celebrated. Thanks David and Kate for the inspiration and encouragement.
Excellent! I would not want the old mold and dust in my living space - big time allergies and sensitivities. Still pretty awesome. Love the 'over-the-top' preservation!
What a totally strange and wonderful concept! And in England. I have dreamed for years of visiting the UK and Ireland. This is beyond anything I could have imagined. Really special. Thankyou!😍
Preservation by isolating it from the exterior environment is interesting but what's novel to me is making it a space that's livable in. The juxtaposition of new and decay that's been suspended does make for contemplation 😁
This give me an idea to me to preserved my grandmother old traditional Malay house in Malaysia and maybe other traditional Malay (Melayu) house made of wood to be preserved
I would advice against preserving a home like this. The old homes are very, very sturdy and can be brought to their original state with "ease" depending on the current state of the home. It's quite amazing to have an old house which can still function as a home. Of course insulation would be abysmal. If you decide to build a house over the existing one please treat all the wood in the house against insects and if there are bricks have a professional check for any fungus. Otherwise the new shell over the house would be useless. If you'd restore it find some people with real skills. It's easy to use new materials and build a house but you need people that can think of a solution to all the difficulties in rebuilding a home like that. I'm currently renovating a house build in 1900 and it's a lot of fun honestly.
oekalaboeka55 What remains of the building he enclosed, only a little remains. He said it would have cost him too much to try to preserve it any further. To treat the wood would mean using chemicals & therefore killing your self & others earlier by causing serious health problems over time. It's cool you are preserving a 1900's house, where is it? It would be great to post it on a blog! 🤗
@@goodliving2171 Yeah in his case it would certainly cost a lot more though I find it odd he was allowed to build a house over it. Normally with protected houses this is not allowed, no matter how much is damaged. My house is in Bruges (Belgium) the centre of Bruges is Unesco protected so you have no choice but to restore it. Within the protected zone there are also many homes that have an additional protection which includes the inside of the house. Floors, chimneys, certain wooden beams etc are all protected in those homes. Restoring in old cities like mine is a lot harder since the infrastructure is not adapted for the current big trucks we have. Many parts of the city can't be reached by trucks since the streets are too narrow. You need permits for everything. From changing your door's colour to having a truck deliver goods at your house (also only allowed in the morning). When you don't follow the rules there is no slap on the wrist or fine to pay. The only option for you is to demolish whatever you did wrong or the city will put a lock on your home. Sadly enough there are quite a few homes locked like this because big firms thought they can get away with it and pay some fines. I agree on the chemicals part. I used it in my house since it was infested with woodworms. Part of the building already collapsed because of the damage done. I don't know what else you can do to protect your house from insects though. What would your advice be? Replacing all the wood is an option but putting new wood in will be either new feeding grounds for the woodworms or chemically treated wood which is the same issue. Replacing the wood with steel or concrete is an option but isn't allowed.
Seeing that he couldn't destroy the old house the question seems oxymoronic (to me) ... If HE had decided on his own NOT to destroy the old house and keep it ..then yeah I get the question .....
thank u for showing ;as usual ,that there's another point of view of the architecture , and being humble and unprejudiced respecting the process of creation
Thank you for this video. What a great way to combine usability with conservation. I love this house. "It has to pragmatic as well as poetic" What a great way to look at architecture.
Haha this guys too much. He's keeping the dust. He's keeping cobwebs. Metal ties from 2000? Of course! Old discolored, illegible pictures? Stick them in a frame!
"...that's probably holding that up." LoL. Very interesting preservation and the techniques utilized. It still seems to still be evolving. A work of art, actually.
exceptional project due to imposed limitations. I admire the Darby-Connor's for taking up the (ridiculous) conservator's dictates and creatively and politely turning them on their head! Fortunately they had the means; others may have to give up. Conservators have a difficult time recognizing that decay/change are natural. Tx so much for bringing this education to us :)
I love it. they're preserving the past and at the same time, living with it in the 21st century. I would certainly love to live there. It would be quite the commute. I work in Los Angeles.
I am impressed at how they "finished" the interior walls of the over-structure, without getting paint, plaster on the old structure! It's done very well.
Truly amazing. I would say though, that at the 6min 45 sec mark, that looks like lath and plaster, not wattle and daub. An amazing project. This is way beyond the"wealth of exposed beams" so beloved of estate agents.
The Poetry Of Place, I feel blessed for the many places I have lived that exuded such splendors. Sure I went in many times thinking I would make them more "presentable" or "desirable" and due to lack of money or their undeniable to me charms, I somehow left undisturbed, changing only what was necessary for safety, utility, cleanliness and order. Conservancy of sorts, building a language all it's own, indiscernible to many, revealing it's secrets and history...a witness to our knowing... Truth windows to our souls.
this is phenomenal! i am beyond impressed with how they not only preserved and honoured history, but took creativity to the next level. who needs wallpaper when you can have a 300 year old wall full of beauty and unrivaled character! wonder how old those cobwebs and the nest are lol absolutely brilliant solution
This is amazing. I've been designing and building handcrafted log homes for over 50 years. I found out about 25 years ago that my Swedish great grandfather and his father were also both carpenters and log builders. That led me to discover that even my father's father who worked in the Alaskan gold fields as a carpenter in the 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60's, had built a log church in Fairbanks in 1948. It turns out that at least 4 of the last 5 generations have had a log builder and carpenter in the family mix. Seeing this video reminds me of a very large log estate built in Seattle in 1906 by 'min farmors far' (Swedish for 'my father's, mother's father). No one in the family at that time knew anything about having more than one log builder in the family history, by the way. I found out about the structure just after it had a major fire in it. At the time of the fire, the building was being used as a restaurant. I was called in by the owner to do an assessment of what it would take to restore the building and make it structurally safe. I felt that it was too far gone to do a credible, respectful repair and restoration. There were many years of neglect and poor remodeling choices involved in addition to the fire. I was not very popular when I suggested that I could recreate the structure newly for less than half the price of trying to do a restoration. I believe that Anton Borgen, my great grandfather would have agreed with me. The owner agreed as well, yet some locals thought differently. They thought I had ulterior motives in that recommendation. I countered with, "Who else on this planet would want to see a log structure that his great grandfather had built over 100 years before, be restored other than me!" I told them that I was the heir to the very pragmatic Swedish nature of saving anything that had any value at all. In the end, I walked away from the project because I could not, in good conscience, do what they were asking me to do. Someone else came in and did a horrible job on the structure and I have never been back. It never occurred to me that this type of a structure could have been an answer that all parties would have found acceptable. I will put this idea on my shelf of useful alternatives. Instead of trying to fight the system in the US in situations like this, I have moved my business from Oregon to a farm about three hours north of Stockholm where I am recreating a business in providing period correct restoration materials for the hundreds of thousands of old log and timber structures that are prized by the people of Sweden. It is kind of a crazy move for someone that is now 73. But good health and strong Nordic genetics should keep me going for quite a few more years.......working on and caring for more historic log and timber frame structures in a country that deeply appreciates their heritage in a very pragmatic way. This is the country that gave me a lifelong career and now I will be able to give back as well. There is much more to this story, but I wanted to take the time to deeply acknowledge the work and the creativity that it took on the parts of all involved in this unique preservation project. It is truly amazing. I also want to than Kirsten and her team for following up on leads like this one and then sharing them so well that moves the craft forward by leaps and bounds. Great job, to all of you that were involved in this.
