Love this one, an amazing way to preserve a building and still use it.

This guy has so many great quotes. He's almost as interesting as the house.

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Mahler. What a Top Boy !

"It has to be pragmatic as well as poetic, otherwise it's pretty useless"... I love that!

“I don’t quite know why it’s worth it, but it’s worth it.” That says it all, in a few words.

This has got to be one of the most interesting living situations I've ever seen. Cool!

I love how you let people tell their stories punctuated with "still" video with no voice. This is one of the best channels on KZfaq! And kudos to this man's preservation efforts.

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!

So provocative. Utterly beautiful. The way they kept the old one inside is so beautiful.

The contrast between really old and really new is very beautiful.....its still totally crazy though

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...

It was very lucky for this old building that this guy came along

You always have the most interesting content. This is no exception.

Thanks for posting. This is something that makes Britain so special!

I'm glad they like it. I couldn't live there.

What an awesome beautiful way to preserve history. This should be done more often.

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.

What a fantastic outlook and way to live with history. Well done

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

Wow. Just when you think you’ve seen it all on this channel. So interesting!

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.

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 clever idea....stunning house within a house!

A unique, rebellious solution. What an individualist!

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I could totally see myself living there & being inspired by this place. Thank you so much for sharing this beauty with us.

This was fascinating! The question you asked him about living with decay seemed to really hit home.

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 😁

my lord, what a beautiful piece of land. Stunning.

A great lesson in architectural history. Thank you!

A faint hearted cannot pull off a masterpiece like this. This guy got some balls. It’s beyond beautiful

Beautifuuuuul place. Awesome🍃☄️🐝🌅🐾🌬️🌄

"There is this old can...We thought it would be full of gold...but it's all filled with garbage" LOL

I don't like it at all, but I appreciate it. If that makes any sense.

I love how you built around. Incorporated it into you daily living spaces. Fascinating. Love it

It's a picture of what it used to be and at the same time it keeps on living... Time is key in this house

Beautiful home, love the philosophy of protecting decay

U & this guy need a show where u just stroll around, and talk. He’s a gem, funny as all, I’m dying over here(fordshire!). Cheers to decaying!

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!😍

OMG. This gentleman is so lovely and the house so lovingly preserved. New house protecting the 300 year old house - such a great idea.

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.

I'd still be afraid that it would collapse. I LOVE old architecture, but I wouldn't live here.

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.

It's quite nice, indeed! Frozen in time, and all that there within and on! Thank you for your time and God bless amen.

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.

Much like the young man who built a house around a skating ramp, or the "LOL cats" couple, he is an absolute madman -- and I am here for it!

We love your videos, Kirsten! Thanks

This is fascinating and so worth watching. I've never seen anything like it!

I believe this is the best of all the videos & places they exist. Like he said, it’s truly impossible to recreate 300 years of “interesting.”

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!

love this guy

Loved the video. History is so great. Imagine living, just walking around in a space where people lived 300 years ago.

This one absolutely made my day.

Wow. Absolutely brilliant blend of conservation and new structure. Nice to have the money to do innovative stuff like this

"Me and the farmer did it by jumping up and down" ; )

Fascinating house! What a lovely guy, hope he enjoys great years in there!

"pragmatic as it is poetic" I love that concept. GREAT video!!

I look forward to your videos so much, keep up the great work!

That was wonderful. Makes me think about the value and worth we give or take away again instead of preserving and acknowledging it.

Absolutely gorgeous! Amazing philosophy and great job

This idea is fantastic! It's like they're living in an installation art!

Probably only British people can invent such a solution to preserve an old building ! And I love it

Truly inspiring, very Wabi-Sabi.

Definitely the best restore this pile of rubble into a home video I've ever seen!

Such a beautiful life lesson and enriching perspective! Thank you for sharing.

this one was really amazing. as a builder who does restoration work this absurd project is absolutely stunning

He build a museum building around the museum :-)

I love how he makes it sound like he was coerced into preserving and then goes on to put a ridiculous amount of passion into the concept.

What a brilliant design. To protect the very old with ruining it. Simply marvelous!

I used to live in a place like this. Without the black house part

Every day, he can see how the building was built. The building’s bones are fascinating.

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 :)

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

Sweetest man...thank you

Maravilloso. Es un tipo de contraste que sólo puedes ver en museos, como en los que se conservan barcos antiguos en Oslo o en Egipto. La idea del "Memento mori", como concepto filosófico, también me encanta. Los romanos, además, también tenían la costumbre de pasar un pequeño "muñeco" de un esqueleto, justo antes de una buena comida, para recordar a los comensales que debían disfrutar, que la vida es corta.

Once again. Thank you Kirsten. You find the most interesting homes

What a totally amazing story. Thank you David & Kate, what a wonderful job you have done. (from Australia)

Extraordinary! A beautiful mind of this man. A great house. Congratulations for this amazing channel. The best in my opinion.

A very large commitment to the preservation of history, well done sir. Well done indeed ! Cheers.

Fascinating project and such a good interviewer staying in the background and not interrupting.

One of the more interesting episodes. The first time I have seen this kind of preservation of an old building. Thank you for the lesson.

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to be living in a house with rotten and insect infested wooden structure that looks like some parts may fall off at any time. Another thing is it may not be healthy for inhabitants to breathe in those dust, dirt and cobwebs infested air in the building over the long term.

One of the most gorgeous homes you've shared, thank you.

I love this man!! They tell him: “Sorry sir, you see that little squiggly line right there on the beam, well that means you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars either repairing and maintaining the structure or you will have to spend about the same preserving it” So he says: “Well hell, if we have to spend ungodly amounts of money to preserve the damn thing, let’s just turn it into a whole crazy thing and preserve everything including the cobwebs, rotten plants and the occasional dead mouse skeleton that surly must in the walls somewhere!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 They handed him a great big pile of lemons which he turned into lemonade and even shares it with curious passers by!!! Cheers

Wow beautiful house. it is fascinating mixture of new and old with the new protecting the old like a cocoon.

Probably your most unique!❤️

Out of the dozens of videos of yours that I've watched, this is one of my favorites. Thank you!

I love how obvious he made the additions of bolts, posts, etc that are new. The contrast somehow works.

“It’s probably quite stable” lol that exactly the type of confidence you want in your home. They did an amazing job with this!

I live how they incorporated the old with the new, preserving the original structure!

This is the best, most unique home I've ever seen.

"...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.

A kind man let peoples inside

Videos like this is what makes KZfaq worthwhile. Absolutely amazing.

Wow owner definitely deserves the medal flawless job love 2 spend 1 day in his house

Wow. Just wow. Creepy but I love how they care about the history while putting modern spin on it. Respect.

2:20 - Yeah, nature recovers fast if left alone for only a couple of years. When we humans are gone, nature will recover in less than a century.

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.

A really great attitude towards conservation!

“ I don’t know why it’s worth it, but it is.” 🤔 interesting.

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.