Brent Hull is the stylish emperor of China, a true hero of humanity. Always jacked, tan, and dressed dapper to the hilt; Brent Hull delivers absolute perfection.

Your cinematographer is amazing.

I love you energy and passion for period building design, quality, workmanship and knowledge about American mouldings and carpentry & joinery excellence!

Love this . Amazing Millwork, awesome editing with super nice soundtrack, and detailed learning. What more can you ask for?!

i do wonder, though, what slightly more humble colonists' homes looked like. These rooms are over the top! So inspiring.

I adore Georgian buildings and interiors. None here in S. CA, but I loved visiting Old Alexandria (particularly the Carlisle house) and Mt. Vernon on a trip to Virginia. I've been fascinated with Winterthur for ages, so thank you for this informative and detailed tour. The blue-green color of the wood mouldings in the Chinoiserie hallway is fantastic. And that staircase!! Amazing what they can do with wood! Just discovered your channel the other day, and I'm enjoying your videos so much. Cheers!

The balusters and newel post are amazing. What a great video. I had the pleasure of touring Winterthur with my dad, Mark Roberson, many years ago. As then, it is wonderful to see a beautiful building through the eyes of a craftsman.

Bucket list visit. Have to make it happen. Thanks for the inspiration.

Maybe your best video/tutorial yet. I can't wait to see you do other periods like this.

You've presented an outstanding review and commentary on this very layered subject - Thank you!

So beautiful, especially loved the hallway! Seldom see mouldings painted like that.

It would be so awesome to go back in time to work with the masters that built that with the tools of today. That was a time you earned a chance to be a craftsman.

I am in awe of the lighting at all of these structures. It highlights the moldings, the features, the art, the space. The lighting at Winterthur was nothing like it is now when I was there in the 1980's(?)

Excellent video. Thank you so much. Onto the next one. Can't get enough of this beautiful architecture & furnishings!!

You know I live just 1 hour and change by train from Philly. I’ve been meaning to go to Winterthur because Georgian is my favourite period. Leave it to you Mr Hull to light that fire. Really enjoy your visits to the East coast in your videos.

Guess I'll be planning a trip to see Winterthur sometime in the near future. This place is so beautiful!

I am enthralled with Georgian architecture...I have incorporated many parts of my home to reflect that...as an aerospace engineer, I appreciate and am blown away by the applied geometry skills used in the making of these different components "by hand"...

The production value of this video is incredible.

What a great video! I go to Philly so often because my parents are from there now I know where I’m going next Time!

Wonderful video! So many great ideas and new things to learn! Definitely amazing stuff! Thanks!

Just amazing! I need to go there. Thanks for explaining all the details.

Georgian and Federal are my favorite types of architecture, furniture and decor. I like the clean, simple lines compared to the heaviness and fussiness of Jacobean and Victorian architecture and decor.

Next time youre in Delaware you should take a ride through Westover Hills, Wawaset Park, and the Highlands. Some incredibly built old Dupont homes w all different styles of architecture. Feel like youd appreciate it

Incredible

Absolutely fascinating place! What glorious craftsmanship!

Hi Brent, I've recently discovered compo moldings and am wondering if you can do a video about them.

Super impressive and just incredibly inspiring!!! I am so fascinated by all your videos and just to learn more! I live in a new home in Maine with standard trim. It's nice, but typical. I really want to break the mold and add character and charm. I have absolutely no eye for this, but am very motivated to learn. The biggest area that I struggle with, so far, is size and scale. How do I know what is too big for mouldings? Are there general rules on proper proportion size? Thank you again for sharing your passion and being so inspiring!

The Georgian style is noted for it's use of LED can lights. 😉 (Although as Abraham Lincoln famously said, you can't believe half of what you read on the internet.)

Love the craftsmanship its so amazing. Can you recommend a book that can help me build that kind of beautiful trim? I would appreciate it very much. Thank you.

Hi Brent. Can you do a video of light switches, power outlets, radiant heaters, fire detectors, etc in historic homes? There are 100 percent necessary in modern living, but they can be very disturbing and sometimes downright ugly in a historic house.

I’m always amazed at the craftsmanship of these relatively old buildings I say relatively old as I’ve just been looking at a house with parts back to 1350). Somethings were in abundance such as good timber and cheap labour but so many things that i rely upon in my workshop just weren’t available then - routers, thicknesses, great steel in blades, lasers for measuring distance - it must have been so much harder to get that pinpoint accuracy. As much as the craftsmanship inspires me, I have to say that the over elaboration of Georgian going into Victorian are not my style. It seems that the aim was to cram every idea, every feature into every room. The notion of less is more clearly was not in the Georgian vocabulary. Go to Osborn House (Queen Victoria’s summer and favourite building on the Isle of Wight) to see the final explosion of this. Society was much more stratified than it is today - although even today is a far cry from what one of my heroes, William Morris, aspired to. The labourers would have lived pretty miserable short lives; the craftsmen had better lives but only the cream of those achieved reasonable wealth - certainly in England. A few architects, developers did achieve fame and fortune and their legacy remains for us all to see and take from it what each of us wants to. And, of course, the wealth that was required to be able to build these houses came from the exploitation of the masses; be it plantations, tea companies, spice trading etc. so my admiration for the level of work is balanced with some disdain for the morals of the original owners. Enough of the Morris derived socialism; I’ve started to invest some hard earned pension (from when I was one of the very minor exploiters) in the National Lottery in the firm expectation that I will win enough to be able to fly over to the USA and be one of those looking at these houses in person. I can’t imagine that I won’t win but I haven’t, as yet, stared packing my bag.

Brent Have you come down to Houston to tour the Ima Hogg house, or on down to her home place?

It would have been nice if you'd explained what Winterhur was and how it came into existence.

This stuff gets complicated. For instance, how often did rooms with more modest ceiling heights receive a high style trim ? I wonder if wealthy people, back then, ever chose more modest dimensions deliberately, or would that have been regarded as an affront to genteel manners? I assume snobbery was no less an issue back then, or could it have been worse? Did Dupont vary the ceiling heights? The exterior windows seem so regimented, or am I mistaken?

Oh my goodness! Even though Winterthur is a museum, those LED inset lights are overkill.. It spoils the historical ambience enormously.