Amazing to see how our Dutch ancestors build houses in the New Netherlands, back then. I think there a few misconceptions in the movie about this house. First, there is not one house, but there are two houses, for two families. I think they were built shortly after one another with the same building material (they have the same bricks and the same architecture). There was a wall between the houses with no door. Dutch houses were (and are) very small, so this would fitt for two families. The drawings that are shown in the movie show 'parlor' (salon in Dutch) for the house on the right, but 18th century Dutch houses of this kind don't have a parlor. Parlors are a French concept. Maybe the second house was added later to the first house and then the living room/kitchen was converted to a parlor. In the ceiling beam structure you can still see where the original stairs must have been, i guess they were later removed. The way these two houses are orientated, with their broad side on the front and the ridge parallel to the front gable is typical for houses from the southern part of the Netherlands (South Holland isles, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant). The second misconception is the furniture placed at the entrance. Dutch houses never have it like this. I believe this furniture must be placed inside adjacent to the front gable window. In Dutch we call this a 'vensterbank' (window sill). The concept of a built-in-bench next to the window allready exists in Dutch castles from the 14th century on. The brick tumbling top gable is called 'vlechtingen' in Dutch, you can see those in every historic Dutch town. The paint they used to paint the wood red was probably oxen blood which they mixed with egg yoke which in time will turn brown/black. The very small windows that you see at 3:18, we call them 'patatsnijders' (french fries cutters). The cloth surrounding the fireplace and the bed is called 'sits'. This was imported by the Dutch United East-India Company (VOC - Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) from India. They used it also for parts of girls dresses (still to be seen in Marken for example). There is one store in Amsterdam that still sells it. The bended table is called a 'hangoortafel' in Dutch. There is more to be discovered in this house.
Amazing to see how our Dutch ancestors build houses in the New Netherlands, back then. I think there a few misconceptions in the movie about this house. First, there is not one house, but there are two houses, for two families. I think they were built shortly after one another with the same building material (they have the same bricks and the same architecture). There was a wall between the houses with no door. Dutch houses were (and are) very small, so this would fitt for two families. The drawings that are shown in the movie show 'parlor' (salon in Dutch) for the house on the right, but 18th century Dutch houses of this kind don't have a parlor. Parlors are a French concept. Maybe the second house was added later to the first house and then the living room/kitchen was converted to a parlor. In the ceiling beam structure you can still see where the original stairs must have been, i guess they were later removed.
The way these two houses are orientated, with their broad side on the front and the ridge parallel to the front gable is typical for houses from the southern part of the Netherlands (South Holland isles, Zeeland, Noord-Brabant).
The second misconception is the furniture placed at the entrance. Dutch houses never have it like this. I believe this furniture must be placed inside adjacent to the front gable window. In Dutch we call this a 'vensterbank' (window sill). The concept of a built-in-bench next to the window allready exists in Dutch castles from the 14th century on.
The brick tumbling top gable is called 'vlechtingen' in Dutch, you can see those in every historic Dutch town. The paint they used to paint the wood red was probably oxen blood which they mixed with egg yoke which in time will turn brown/black. The very small windows that you see at 3:18, we call them 'patatsnijders' (french fries cutters). The cloth surrounding the fireplace and the bed is called 'sits'. This was imported by the Dutch United East-India Company (VOC - Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) from India. They used it also for parts of girls dresses (still to be seen in Marken for example). There is one store in Amsterdam that still sells it. The bended table is called a 'hangoortafel' in Dutch. There is more to be discovered in this house.