hi everyone my name is ken welcome to this house today we are in webster groves missouri exploring
a craftsman style house now this house is very exemplary of the architectural style and i'll
tell you a little bit more about that as we look around the outside after i do that we're going to
go explore it american craftsman is an american domestic architectural style which was inspired
by the arts and crafts movement beginning the last years of the 19th century the name craftsman was
appropriated from furniture maker gustav stickley whose magazine the craftsman was first published
in 1901 the architectural style was most widely used in small to medium-sized southern california
single-family homes but the style quickly spread across the united states the movement emphasized
hard work over mass production and was in some ways just as much a social movement as it was
an aesthetic one we've just walked in the front door and immediately the space just feels so rich
with all of this beautiful woodwork and ornate details so let's take a moment to look around
the foyer and see some of these details first i want to point out the door knocker come take a
closer look at this it has an eagle sitting atop a sconce and then this part here you can actually
move it to clank and i'm not going to get too loud right now now over here we can see that the
windows have a triangular pediment above them that match the tops of the archways and the tops of the
door behind me moving further into the space we arrive at the staircase and we can see that
the bottom step rounds out around the oversized noodle post so let's take a moment to see this
as we continue to look up we have an antique-like fixture above us here
down below is a radiator that has been covered and we've seen radiator covers like this before with
the grates and then the marble tops now passing out of the foyer we arrive in the living room
and this room has a lot more of those craftsman style details and we're going to be seeing a lot
of examples of the craftsman style throughout this house once again all of the windows have these
triangular pediments above them and as we cross the room and look at the fireplace we can see that
it has densial molding and brick and then above it it has a wooden mantel and all of this matches
the rest of the woodwork that we've been seeing in this house and over in the corner next to the
fireplace is another radiator which has a cover over it and again it has a polished stone top
now crossing to the other side of the room we are going to arrive at a set of french doors and we'll
go through those in just a moment first i want to point out this beautiful detail right here as it
opens into the dining room so let's take a moment to see this and then let's head into the sun room
so come on into the sun room and this space is really amazing so here all of the woodwork
has been painted white and these windows have all been recently replaced however all of the
original wood encasements were kept as was very important in the restoration process of this home
as we look around of course there's another radiator cover here and we're going to see
this occur a lot throughout this home there are also built-ins underneath the windows
and then a very unique light fixture that hangs above that also seems to be of a certain vintage
now leaving the sun room we are going to come through another set of french doors
into the dining room so let's begin to take a look around the space there is one window
centered on this room at the very end of it and it has a triangular pediment above it
there is also the other side of the large wooden archway that we saw from the living room now come
take a closer look at this there are all of these built-ins with glass panes and this is
just another exquisite example of the craftsman style being played out throughout this house
now leaving the dining room we arrive at a swinging door and let's take a look at this
plate it really tells the story of the life of this house where we can see all the natural
patina from over a century of moms opening the door here and bringing food out to the table
it's just one of those really precious things that is evident in this house and its charm
coming through here now we have built-ins on either side
and these are rather whimsical but they really go with the whole arts and crafts theme
and the american craftsman style that we've been seeing played out so well throughout this house
now as we look around the perimeter of this room we notice that there are tiles that vary in blues
and whites and then we also have a decorative band that goes just below the bullnose tiles in the
meantime let's take a moment to see some of these smaller details before moving on to the kitchen
leaving this space we're going to come into the kitchen proper let's take a
moment to see the archway here how it comes up at these sharper angles
come on through here and we're going to see the same tile continued around the space at a higher
height so now we can see that it comes up at the normal backsplash level and continues with the
same theme this time there are introduced blue pencils that run below the white bull nose tile
and we can see some of the same decorative banner tile run just above the countertop height
and even though this is a newer kitchen it still just blends so well with the craftsman style that
we've been seeing played out throughout here also notice how the radiator cover has been integrated
into the design of the kitchen now making our way out of the kitchen we come to this node
that links us to the fourier now there are just really charming details in here of course these
boxed arches all have triangular pediments above them there's a vintage light fixture here so let's
take a closer look at that and then we're going to open this door and peek inside of the powder room
now that we've seen the entirety of the first
floor let's head on upstairs and see the rest of the house
arriving at the top of the stairs we are now going to start exploring the bedrooms
so the first one we're going to see is over this way so come on through here now arriving in this
room it has these beautiful large windows that look out over the front of the house
and we can also see that the ceiling slopes up over the hidden radiator
directly behind me is the closet which is currently set up as a study
so we can pick your heads in here before moving on
leaving the bedroom we go back into the stair hall
and this is going to take us down towards a bathroom so here's the bathroom for the second
floor let's go ahead and peek in here and of course all of this is newer than the house itself
but it's still done in such a tasteful way that it really blends with the original charm
continuing on out of the bathroom we're going to arrive at the end of the hallway
and this takes us to another bedroom which is set up with two beds once again there's
a sloping ceiling over part of it there's a window in the center with the triangular pediment
and then directly across from us is a french door that takes us out onto a patio
coming out of this room we are going to pass by the final bedroom we'll see but before we see that
we're going to come down this hallway and there's just some really beautiful
things to see in here so come on through here guys the first thing we see in this
hallway is this old built-in and look at all of these different types of hardware on here
now continuing down the hallway we pass by a large shelf and this is going to take us past
a large closet which we'll see once again in a moment when we explore the bedroom
into the study but first let's pause to see this french door with its crystal doorknob
stepping into the study this is directly above the sunroom that we saw on the first floor
however even though it has the same footprint there are some slight variations to point out
if we notice now the windows now have a different design on them
as well as there are built-ins on either side of the space
now continuing on we are going to go to the final bedroom now stepping into the
space we see the same hardware that was on the other french door leading into the study and
beginning to look around once again there are triangular pediments above all of the windows
and it is just absolutely beautiful in here how the light plays on the natural wood tones
and speaking of which we can see that there are subtle variations in the wood grain
so for example if we look at this closet door right here we can see these striations that
run through it are a bit more rich than the other wood tones that we've been seeing which is common
in what would be set up as the owner's bedroom to have some of the finer things around
and now if we open up this door over here we can go back into that central hallway
there's more storage on either side and then we can go up to the third floor
so the way we get to the third floor is through this store right here
so i'm going to open this up and we can go ahead and just stick our heads up here
mary thank you so much for opening up the doors to this beautiful home it has just been so much
fun to explore this could you tell our audience a little bit about your involvement with this
property certainly so my name is mary brown i'm with keller williams realty
and i enjoy listing properties that are distinctive in walkable webster so this is
definitely qualifies it's got that unique craftsman flair and a well-maintained well-loved
appeal thank you all so much for watching i really hope that you enjoyed this video
if you would like more information on this house or to find out how to contact mary
to buy a house in the area i'll have the listing link down in the video description
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