Spanish Revival Architecture Explore Hacienda Style Exteriors
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Exploring The Spanish Revival Influence
When you are in love with a particular style of architecture... you can't get enough information. I've always been in love with either a Spanish Revival or Hacienda Spanish Style home.
I just knew I would live in a home with a red tile roof someday.
I live in the desert Southwest... where we don't have many homes in the Spanish Revival Architecture ... this style is traditionally found in what would be Old California.
When you dream of Spanish Revival style... does your mind wander to the California coast communities such as Santa Barbra.
You might visualize a home in the Hollywood hills with a view from a Hacienda courtyard. I just ran into this huge book and had to snatch it up. It was published in 2002 and I missed it.
I crave books with lots of photos... this one has over 250 of them. They filled my head with dreams of Spanish Colonial churches and old Hacienda Style Courtyard Homes.
Anyway... enough chit/chat about San Diego - Back to this great book.
Spanish Style Architecture
visually fill the pages with image after image. Remember - I said I was going to live in a home with a red tile roof? This book helped make it happen!
I live in a ranch style home... and we finally changed out the old wood shingles for a red tile roof. The use of real clay tile isn't possible without ripping off the rafters and starting over.
But, with the new composite tiles available... we can have our Spanish Tile Roof!
Choosing the color was a comedy... tile colors range from Spanish Red to Mocha to a deep burnt brown (and variations in between). I threw out the green, yellow and blue tile roof choices... I wanted to stay true to the traditional Spanish Style.
We picked up samples from the roofing company and stood them against the walls of our home. Everyday - I switched the tiles to another side of the house. I wanted to see the tile in sunshine and shade plus they look different in the morning light vs sunset. The neighbors think I'm nuts. Finally I choose a tile that is muti-hued. Red and Brown with a touch of Black. It looks fantastic!
By the way...the book is simply titled -Red-Tile Style
.
I just knew I would live in a home with a red tile roof someday.
I live in the desert Southwest... where we don't have many homes in the Spanish Revival Architecture ... this style is traditionally found in what would be Old California.
When you dream of Spanish Revival style... does your mind wander to the California coast communities such as Santa Barbra.
You might visualize a home in the Hollywood hills with a view from a Hacienda courtyard. I just ran into this huge book and had to snatch it up. It was published in 2002 and I missed it.
I crave books with lots of photos... this one has over 250 of them. They filled my head with dreams of Spanish Colonial churches and old Hacienda Style Courtyard Homes.
Did you know that the Spanish Revival Style is a product of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego?
And... most of the old buildings are still open for everyone to view? Yes, you can go to Balboa Park in San Diego, California and sit down right in the middle of an amazing plaza surrounded by the "New" Spanish style. If you love Spanish Revival Architecture... you can spend hours wandering the paths of the Spanish Village.
It really does take more than one day to see all the buildings on the site... it's huge!
Anyway... enough chit/chat about San Diego - Back to this great book.
Spanish Style Architecture
visually fill the pages with image after image. Remember - I said I was going to live in a home with a red tile roof? This book helped make it happen!I live in a ranch style home... and we finally changed out the old wood shingles for a red tile roof. The use of real clay tile isn't possible without ripping off the rafters and starting over.
But, with the new composite tiles available... we can have our Spanish Tile Roof!
Choosing the color was a comedy... tile colors range from Spanish Red to Mocha to a deep burnt brown (and variations in between). I threw out the green, yellow and blue tile roof choices... I wanted to stay true to the traditional Spanish Style.
We picked up samples from the roofing company and stood them against the walls of our home. Everyday - I switched the tiles to another side of the house. I wanted to see the tile in sunshine and shade plus they look different in the morning light vs sunset. The neighbors think I'm nuts. Finally I choose a tile that is muti-hued. Red and Brown with a touch of Black. It looks fantastic!
By the way...the book is simply titled -Red-Tile Style
.
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Spanish Mission Style
The Styles of Spanish Colonial and Mission Style Houses
There are certain types of domestic architecture which are peculiar to California. Chief among these is what is known as the Spanish Mission style of architecture. This style has, of course, derived its name and character from the old Spanish missions which were built in California by the Franciscan fathers during the Spanish occupancy of this country.
These old missions have furnished the inspiration for the development of a style of architecture which at its best is undoubtedly very pleasing and especially fitting to this particular environment.
The Mission-Style Houses
were naturally more or less influenced in design, by the style of architecture used in the churches and cathedrals of Spain and Old Mexico, from which their builders derived their ideas, and. truly speaking, a great deal of the so-called Mission architecture is more nearly Spanish or Spanish Colonial than it is Mission.
There is, however, a true type of Mission architecture which carries out the coarse detail and generally crude, yet graceful outlines of the old California missions. It is in this true Mission type that we have the one distinct contribution to architectural style, which is always associated with California.
Similar in general characteristics, but differing materially in detail from the Italian style, the Spanish and Spanish Colonial architecture has exerted some very beneficial influence upon the domestic architecture of California.
These old missions have furnished the inspiration for the development of a style of architecture which at its best is undoubtedly very pleasing and especially fitting to this particular environment.
The Mission-Style Houses
were naturally more or less influenced in design, by the style of architecture used in the churches and cathedrals of Spain and Old Mexico, from which their builders derived their ideas, and. truly speaking, a great deal of the so-called Mission architecture is more nearly Spanish or Spanish Colonial than it is Mission.There is, however, a true type of Mission architecture which carries out the coarse detail and generally crude, yet graceful outlines of the old California missions. It is in this true Mission type that we have the one distinct contribution to architectural style, which is always associated with California.
Similar in general characteristics, but differing materially in detail from the Italian style, the Spanish and Spanish Colonial architecture has exerted some very beneficial influence upon the domestic architecture of California.
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The Spanish Mission Style House
Simple Stucco Walls With Distinctive Lines
A fairly rough white stucco is the proper treatment for the main body of this house. The roof should, of course, be Spanish tile of a deep rich red, the blinds and exterior trim a faded green of a bluish cast, the sash and sash-bars white. The iron balcony should be painted dark green over the red metallic paint.
The porch ceiling could be a very pale blue with good effect, and the porch floor red tile or red brick with gray joints, though of course cement will answer where it is advisable to economize.
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Where possible the planting in connection with this house should be of a semi-tropical nature-at any rate the shrubbery about the house should be of as variegated coloring as possible and the garden should contain a great prpfusion of flowering plants. The walks should be of brick or white gravel.
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