Style house

Reconstruction or a new building project?
The preparation for reconstruction and the process itself is tedious and costly with many unforeseeable complications, and ideally requires a truly high quality building project. The authenticity, earnestness and soul of the place are sweet rewards. Period houses can be designed as new buildings with maintenance of traditional features yet also use of the newest technology. There are plenty of firms on the market who are able to produce traditional stone or wooden constructions. It is essential to be familiar with period architecture, proportions and details. Work with them can be freer. It's not necessary to build imitations or historical museum pieces.

Reconstruction - A house like a „teapot“ or „puddingstone“
With old houses, the most important thing is to ensure the quality of the architecture. Decide whether to adapt the house to your needs or bow to the house’s lead because it is worth it. Choose the property with this in mind. Don’t dust off any non-functional trivialities or brutally destroy strong, original, ideas. Art Nouveau family house with a clear and solid composition of masses and facades, a beautiful staircase or bay window has everything fixed. I recommend approaching it like a jar, which I can not add another hole or drill another hole in it. I have to accept her as it is and just fix it. Certain characteristic fragments of a half-derelict 1920s estate with damp masonry and collapsed ceilings certainly deserve retention. Mostly, however, these buildings were not planned in advance. The original core is expanded by additions, accessories and extensions. More radical intervention can not only fully satisfy new requirements for living standards, but may also achieve a strong architectural influence and aesthetic value.

New building
A copy or an inspiration? Do I want a house with stone gables and steep roofing, or a real English Cottage? I recommend the first approach. The second is also possible, but it is necessary to choose the location carefully, with regard to the character of the surrounding area. The building can look comical in the context. When use of original technologies and structures is required, high costs must also be expected. I recommend appropriate adaptation of the selected style to local conditions and current needs.

Period purity or mixed styles for the interior?
Both are possible and both require extensive knowledge. For the „teapot“ type of house the first approach is needed. Furniture and accessories should be acquired from high class antique shops and  any new pieces should be exact copies  of original pieces. We can design a white-gray patina-style interior in the country house Ma Maison, Anglická sezóna. This romantic approach produces a passionate interior, but exaggeration must be avoided. It is appropriate for a period house in the form of a new building project or conversion, or a maisonette in the attic. The Czech cottage was different. The whole article could be devoted to the comparison of a well-known folk production with a fragile turn of the century poetically rendered in Postřižiny, then came the 20th century with a remote echo of functionalism, followed by the robust 40s. And I'm not even talking about regional influences. This natural charm employs a tasteful combination of styles with the original signature of the creator. You can combine authentic elements with modern, romantic and industrial ones. The common denominator when choosing individual elements is the high quality of the design that does not always have to do with the price. Then there is also the avant-garde, minimalist and almost artistic approach, when on the background of the historical building will be a top modern or artistic piece of furniture. The original master of such an approach was the owner of the auction house Axel Vervoordt, who was definitely a master of the period interior.