I’m addicted to this channel! Bought 4 of the books you mentioned already. Some are VERY hard to impossible to find.

Thanks for helping me get my daily steps-- I watch your videos with a sketch pad and a tape measure, running around my 1920's house comparing and plannng!

The problem is so many people who are suppose to know this (carpenters, builders, sales reps, designers, DIY experts especially) but don't really have a clue, continue the same old, but wrong advice to others, "you can do whatever you want, what you like, you can do this or you can do, that there's no right or wrong way". Hence we have everybody today absolutely clueless as to what really works and looks nice. And sometimes if you speak up and say, "that's not really correct, then you are looked down on as if you are being offensive or overly critical of others and their views". That column at 5:38 was hilarious. Your videos are a breath of fresh air. Please, don't stop trying to educate others.

I'm Brent Hull from The Build Show, and I'm the best.

Thank you for teaching Brent. Keep the book recommendations coming-I’ve seen that library of yours. Don’t be stingy now. All the best!

Such precise and helpful wisdom. Thank you as always.

Thank you again for the knowledge that you are sharing.

Wonderful review.

Interesting. We seem to have a crop of one story houses with shallow, high porticos (if that’s the right term) held up by a variety of overly ornate columns. In California neighborhoods of “simple”, 1970s stucco houses. Even if all the houses In the neighborhood are remodeled similarly, it seems to me they will still look out of place/out of scale. And thanks for a new word, entasis.

I just finished a house with about 30 columns beautiful design the architect did a great job… also are your capitals you make hand carved?😁

One thing I always wondered and a lot of people that I know wonder the same thing how much money would it cost to build one of these old Victorian houses what were the prices of lumber back then what were the prices of crown molding what were the prices to plaster a house the slate roofs the framing?

Is it possible for you to make a video how a column is made with entasis. Also i have not found even one video on how a column is installed especially marble or stone one. Would you have any video references to that? Im trying to piece together how St. Peter's Basilica was built but not easy at all to find any content.

I believe the main reason for entasis is that from a distance it makes the column look straight, by that I mean the edges of the column appear plumb.

I live in an urban area with a lot of small, pre War cottages and bungalows that are being torn down and replaced by huge McMansions. There is no attempt to integrate the new with the old. They have Victorian-esque houses with massive Arts and Crafts style pier porches. They make no sense.

“Don’t be a dummy!” Lol

We're building a traditional farmhouse with a wrap around front porch. What columns would be appropriate for that?

Hi Brent , great video as always. You mentioned you use great woods when fabricating the columns and avoid pine. What sort of wood are you typically using for exterior columns ? Is it sapele mahoghany?

what is the time period in which a triple column styling was used?

Brent, at 5:50, was the column change from 10" to 8" a course-of-construction change-order, or was it actually specified as 8" in the plans but got overlooked in the actual construction? I.e., who pays -- or who eats the cost of correcting the columns?

I am curious, at the 6:57 mark there is a really pretty classical style house I was wondering how you felt about the columns being so tall that they support the roof and have that second story balcony sort of running through them as opposed to using shorter columns to hold up that second story balcony and then another set of columns supporting the roof?

Thanks again Brent for the great education. I love this one and your other one about stairs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mMpgecZmqLuclHk.html

He spelled entasis wrong @3:54