http://retrorenovation.com/2008/07/06/in-praise-of-royal-barry-wills-and-his-important-role-in-popularizing-and-proliferating-cape-cod-and-colonial-homes-in-the-postwar-era/ Products and ideas to remodel your mid century home in authentic vintage style Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:20:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/07/06/in-praise-of-royal-barry-wills-and-his-important-role-in-popularizing-and-proliferating-cape-cod-and-colonial-homes-in-the-postwar-era/comment-page-1/#comment-116281 Laurie Belden Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:05:43 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=2898#comment-116281 You have peaked my interest. I want to pick up some of Royal Barry Will's books. I have always loved the Cape Cod home! You have peaked my interest. I want to pick up some of Royal Barry Will’s books. I have always loved the Cape Cod home!

]]> http://retrorenovation.com/2008/07/06/in-praise-of-royal-barry-wills-and-his-important-role-in-popularizing-and-proliferating-cape-cod-and-colonial-homes-in-the-postwar-era/comment-page-1/#comment-71245 Scott Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:41:35 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=2898#comment-71245 Last April, I bought a Royal Barry Wills Associates designed five-bedroom, center chimney garrison. Built in 1966, it features a first-floor brick front, the remainder covered in clapboards. After a year's habitation, I can report that this 45-year-old building is the most comfortable, beautifully constructed and engineered house I have ever lived in. Everything functions flawlessly. The rooms are elegantly proportioned and arranged, with the main facade facing southeast (as early New England houses did, regardless of their alignment to the street) to best capture the sun's daily course. And unlike the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired modernistic house I formerly occupied, the roof doesn't leak. Everyone who visits falls in love with the place -- it has a grace and poetry that is hard to describe. My mother begs me never to sell. Last April, I bought a Royal Barry Wills Associates designed five-bedroom, center chimney garrison. Built in 1966, it features a first-floor brick front, the remainder covered in clapboards. After a year’s habitation, I can report that this 45-year-old building is the most comfortable, beautifully constructed and engineered house I have ever lived in. Everything functions flawlessly. The rooms are elegantly proportioned and arranged, with the main facade facing southeast (as early New England houses did, regardless of their alignment to the street) to best capture the sun’s daily course. And unlike the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired modernistic house I formerly occupied, the roof doesn’t leak. Everyone who visits falls in love with the place — it has a grace and poetry that is hard to describe. My mother begs me never to sell.

]]> http://retrorenovation.com/2008/07/06/in-praise-of-royal-barry-wills-and-his-important-role-in-popularizing-and-proliferating-cape-cod-and-colonial-homes-in-the-postwar-era/comment-page-1/#comment-10050 Femme1 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:35:32 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/?p=2898#comment-10050 I don't have an erudite comment about architecture, but reading about Cape Cods made me think of the last season or so of I Love Lucy. If you remember, Lucy and Ricky moved out of their small NYC apartment and into an expansive colonial in Connecticut. It was furnished with Early American furniture and braided rugs and had those Dutch half doors (where you can open the top of the door separately from the bottom half). And so the popular culture reflected the midcentury popularity of the Royal Barry Willis houses. I don’t have an erudite comment about architecture, but reading about Cape Cods made me think of the last season or so of I Love Lucy. If you remember, Lucy and Ricky moved out of their small NYC apartment and into an expansive colonial in Connecticut. It was furnished with Early American furniture and braided rugs and had those Dutch half doors (where you can open the top of the door separately from the bottom half). And so the popular culture reflected the midcentury popularity of the Royal Barry Willis houses.

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