Xtreme Tudor

If you’ve ever built or remodeled a house, you know how frustrating it is to have to compromise on your original vision because of budget constraints.

Even if I was personally unable to spend **infinity** money on the remodel of my Tudor Revival home, I vicariously enjoyed watching the building of this authentic Tudor on Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto.

The white oak framing of this Tudor was fabricated and assembled in England, then disassembled and shipped to California. When it arrived in the New World, the original English carpenters flew out to reassemble it, board by board. Note that the framing contains NO NAILS. It was pieced together with wooden pegs and mallets. Think of it as the ultimate Tinker Toy project.

Other details of unapologetic “irrational exuberance” include authentic leaded glass, imported slate, carved seraphims on the eaves, a heritage English rose garden, and gargoyle corbels. (I love gargoyles.)

More after the jump….

This historic artifact of the “Dot Com Boom” and is surely worthy of a Shakespearean sonnet.

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