The gingerbread houses you can't eat

My biggest dream is to when I buy a house to add those decorative wooden elements on awnings and roof overhang. In swedish that little decorative wooden elements is called “snickarglädje” which translates to carpenter joy!

Very cool thank you for sharing

You should look up Frankenmuth, Michigan, which also is built in Bavarian-style 😊Known locally as Michigan’s Little Bavaria.

Are you familiar with the Martha’s Vineyard gingerbread houses? It’s this little community of homes that are colorful and ornate. Some of them are big Victorians and some are much smaller little camp houses.

Your topics always capture the curious side of me 😅 It's like you answer all the questions I had as a kid that I didn't know I needed an answer to 😂

As someone Swiss i dont think our old houses look that gingerbready, we do have the Tradition of decorating lebkuchen/gingerbread houses and other things but i think it didnt originate here. For me the most gingerbread style is in Alsass France not far from our border, just google Colmar and you know what i mean. The Icing you mention is interessting cause you find that on houses that we call Sugarbaker Houses the Style you find in old Towns in Eastern Europe a lot like Riga, etc.I think the Amarican mix is fascinating, I was in Brasil ones and they have wierd Alpine Style Towns in the South that did look strange for me. There was a moment that Chalets from Valais became popular in Switzerland during the 80s and so you find them outside of Valais and they look like sore thumbs in the countryside, they just dont fit, so I know the feeling.

I so enjoy your videos, keep up the great work.

this one had really good jokes!!!! i laughed more than usual :)

Jokes hit hard…. ‘that’s must have been ruff’ too good 😂

This American town doesn't look like Germany.... Well duh. It's a town in America. Inspiration does not mean copying. It means inspired by.

calling a house gaudi like that is a little on the nose

Accusations of copying an age-old style, particularly when the architect has likely never studied it, are perplexing. What makes a style 'legitimate'? Must a country or region employ specific building techniques and materials for centuries before its architecture can be taken seriously? History reveals that architectural styles often arise independently across cultures, shaped by shared needs and resources. Dismissing these developments as 'unoriginal' undermines the universal inspiration that fuels creativity.

Such essentialist thinking discriminates against so-called 'lesser' designs, marginalizing artistic innovation and creativity. By imposing arbitrary standards, we send a harmful message to emerging architects: conform or risk rejection. This mindset stifles the potential for new ideas, creating a sterile environment where innovation is discouraged. Imagine if architects like Frank Lloyd Wright or Zaha Hadid had been constrained by these standards—how much poorer the world of architecture would be today.

It would have been ruff😂

Thank you for bringing us the gift of puns as well as the video

I am enchanted by any topic you choose to take on. 🤩

Love your videos! ❤

The first time I learned about Leavenworth, I'd been on a dirt bike for 18 and came out of the fog to find myself in a German town. Not sure if I was dead, hallucinating, or okay, I proceeded with caution. I don't think they'd serve me McDonalds in heaven or hell which let me rule out dead. When I saw the overly ornate bank, I figured out I was in a theme park. 2 more hours riding until rest and was back at my desk that morning.

Kendra, these videos are amazing. The stuff you make is just so easy and fun to watch. I don't even remember how I found your channel, but it's one of my favorites now. I love the pacing, the funny little edits, the chill vibe. Thanks for all you do.

"the Sound of Music and your grandmother's 1000 piece Thomas Kinkade puzzle" took me, delightfully, by surprise. I would listen to you talk about literally anything 🫶🫶

so good

Leavenworth is where my family reunions were for years! I love it there and miss it so much

I loved this video very interesting

i love this woman. wish she was british so she could tell me random things about my house 🥲

Thank you for the community poll, otherwise I would have miss your video❤ for some reason notifications not notificating
Your videos always such a delight

You're supposed to wait a couple days so your gingerbread is nice and soft.

Who was that child running across the street!

I can’t express how much I love this video and for that matter this channel ❤

Quality upload

You should take a trip to Cooperstown NY, so many Gingerbread houses!

I was amazed to taste REAL gingerbread in Germany. It is not hard and dry at all, but soft and sweet! I’ll never eat American ginger bread cookies ever again!

I lived in an old neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA. It had lots of “painted ladies” Victorian and Queen Anne houses. I love them!! It was my favorite house (mine was a craftsman ) and i miss the fancy of that neighborhood. I am back in Florida and it’s so boring here!

The Brothers Grimm probably wrote about gingerbread houses because they were a thing in Germany and not the other way around. In England, a precursor to the gingerbread house would’ve been really Tudor-era sugar or marzipan sculptures in dedicated sugar banquets, and I’d be interested to know whether there’s a straight line between them or not. I imagine gingerbread cookies would’ve been more accessible… and edible. It wouldn’t have even occurred to me to check this but I just loved “The Sweet Makers” and realized I had seen a Worse gingerbread house before.

There's a rich "summering" neighborhood in our town that is mostly entirely gingerbread. They. Are. Fucking. Beautiful. Mad respect.

Just started watching this one but your videos are amazing, thank you for creating and sharing them!! :)

Kendra, thank you for all the videos this year. Like this one, they were an absolute delight, and I love all your little jokes. Looking forward to your content in 2025!

is gaylord your real last name?

omge i've stumbled upon your channel yesterday and i just freaking fell in love with the way you form and create your content. I tend to watch a lot of short form content that's made to grab ur attention yk like tik tok and stuff and over the few years it's totally fried my brain and Its been really hard to pay attention to longform content and essays. I'm watching every single one of your video's with a full attention spam which i literally thought was impossible for me in 2024 😭but now i have actual hope that my brain isn't actually fried

i've literally never had an interest in victorian or 19th century architecture cuz to me personally it used to be kinda uninteresting. But the way u explain a lot of what are pretty difficult concepts of what exactly is going on in a built of a 19th century house is explained so well and tastefully in a way that's easily understood. Like it felt really nice to understand what was the thought process behind some architectural design choices. And also some of the books mentioned in different videos specific to a type of craft showed the passions of the people behind it. Like that plaster design book i didn't even know something like that existed and the man was genuinely so passionate about his plaster wall designs like it's so wholesome so i just wanted to write this in an appreciation cuz ur content is so fucking cool dude like i didn't even know about half of the stuff showed

This is too funny. Leavenworth, WA has a doppelganger in Helen, GA. Current architecture and Historical timeline nearly identical

Check out 275 Main St (MA-28) in West Dennis, MA. It was a stately old white victorian house when I was a kid, and when I moved back to the area in 2021, I discovered that someone had bought it and gingerbread-ified it. If you look it up on Redfin, you'll see the "before" pictures, and then google street view will show you how edible it looks now.

I find your videos informative and fascinating.

Gingerbread houses are the renfaire of architecture does that make sense

Bring back decorative verge boards 💜