Our Clients
A New Old House
- Transform a "New House" into a "New Old House" with history!
- What is Design and Find?
- What is Retrofitting?
- Making an enduring contribution to our nation's heritage!
All the advantages of new construction and all the charm of an historic home
An Integrated Process: Find while you design.
Transform a "New House" into a "New Old House" with history!
When the Architectural Antiques are real, there is an unmistakable patina that makes even a brand new space stunningly authentic and unique. Your New Old House will be firmly rooted in history. Forever.
What is Design and Find?
For a New Old House, it's a clear advantage whenever possible to search for the architectural antiques while the design is unfolding. Keeping the design fluid, while investigating available architectural antiques, allows for more options: more architectural antiques to choose from, more likelihood that they are going to fit (literally), that they will have the intended impact, and that they will seem "designed in" symmetrically, with deliberate aesthetic intent, as they were decades ago.
Real architectural antiques which have already graced a home for 200 years or more will inspire the design, as they anchor the look, period feel and style. Planning ahead is like adding lots of additional hues to your paint palette – like having the giant sized Crayola Paint Box to play with. Specific architectural antiques may influence color, style, design, ceiling height, measurements, the feel of the room, tone, symmetry, balance and other major aesthetic and logistical choices. The design will inspire the search process as well and make exciting leaps when there are real pieces of history to grace the space. Design and find, find and design.
Great Architecture. A unique home that cannot be duplicated.
What is Retrofitting?
If the design is complete when the search for architectural antiques begins, the physical and stylistic limitations make the search a bit more limited in the number of antiques which will be able to fit a set and unchangeable definition of logistical requirements. However, a truly comprehensive search can often find even the most challenging match and even completed designs manage to take on genuine historical pieces and the effect is stunning.
Congratulations! You're making an enduring contribution to our nation's heritage!
Design and Find: it's an interactive process that can inspire great architecture. Architectural Antiques Services will attend both your design sessions and the progress of the construction site and follow
"In the old days, great care was taken with the design process, carefully weighing all choices affecting the family's needs and the design. Generous planning and forethought brought every detail into an integrated aesthetic that endured for centuries."
