Jeff Doubet Teaches About Spanish-style Decorative Grilles and Vent Covers

Are you designing a custom Spanish-style home and wish to incorporate quality decorative grilles and vent covers into your interior or exterior design?

I have been specializing in Spanish home design since 2003, and regularly design these stylish elements into each of them.

You may be interested in my book Creating Spanish Style Homes: Before & After – Techniques – Designs – Insights

I published it as a Design Consultation in a Book - something you could buy to gain insights without having to hire me directly. It is available at Amazon (direct link above).

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The full color, 240 page coffee table book includes several pages devoted to my Pro Designer tips and techniques for Spanish style heat vent grilles, fireplaces, and other insider insights for making your Spanish home design project a quality one.

As a home designer based in Santa Barbara, CA ... I chose hundreds of my favorite behind the scenes photos like these, and write about the many things I have learned during my career as a Spanish home designer.

I wanted to make an encouraging, helpful book that you can enjoy while you plan and build the project you are working on.

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And the STORE + MORE page. Quality Spanish home products shown in context within custom Spanish homes being designed and built in beautiful Santa Barbara and Montecito, Callifornia.

Santa Barbara California craftsmen installing decorative plaster grille and applying drywall texture in custom Spanish style home in Santa Barbara California

LEFT: A sneak peek of a couple of photos in the book.

Top Left: A highly skilled Artisan concentrates as he installs a custom Spanish style grille. You can see more photos of the project Casa Corazon.

BOTTOM LEFT:

Author and Home Designer Jeff Doubet (on bended knee) works side by side another talented independent Artisan.

Here we are touching up the drywall finish in a barrel hallway, where the custom grille was installed.

A decorative plaster heat vent grille embedded in interior wall with blue talavera Spanish tiles below it and next to dark stained wood beams in a Santa Barbara Spanish style home

This custom Spanish style home in Santa Barbara incorporates 1.5 inch thick plaster vent covers for the heating ducts.

These highly visual decorative design elements become conversation pieces in a room. This one looks extra nice installed near the embedded Spanish tiles in the arch below. A dark stained beam ceiling, beyond...

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Box of quantity 7 cast aluminum Spanish style hvac heat grilles prepped for paint

For my preferred source for these grilles, check out my new STORE + MORE page over at my new website Creating Spanish Style Homes.

Santa Barbara California based Spanish home designer Jeff Doubet applies drywall mud texture above a custom plaster grille air intake vent

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This decorative grille design was originally used in the Montecito California historic Biltmore Hotel.

I teach more about this image in my book Creating Spanish Style Homes.

Stock Grilles you can buy online

Not all home design projects require customized products from specialty manufacturers,or the designs and consulting services I offer on an hourly basis.

The grille depicted in the image to the left is a custom, however there are plenty of stock grilles you can purchase from online stores.

Please visit my new STORE + MORE page at CreatingSpanishStyleHomes.com to learn more.

A thick decorative plaster grille embedded in a thick plaster wall in a house in Montecito, California

See larger photo HERE.

A Jeff Doubet designed plaster vent grille installed in a Montecito, CA home

Jeff Doubet, Santa Barbara home designer applies a thin coat of drywall mud to a large decorative grille for a Spanish style home in Montecito, California

LEFT: A custom, oversized grille I specified for a local Montecito, California Spanish style home project.

In this image, I am putting additional drywall mud texture on the panel before it was installed.

I recently created an entire article on the process.

See dozens of photos and more info on the backstory of this Stars and Crosses skylight grille, HERE

A close up photo of a 2 inch thick decorative plaster grille for a Santa Barbara, California Spanish style home remodel

LEFT: A historic cast concrete grille installed in a local Santa Barbara, California Spanish style home renovation.

Close up photo of a historic vent grille embedded in the exterior of a plaster building in Barcelona, Spain

Images, pictures and photos of historic vent covers, decorative grates and register covers...

I love to photograph them!

This is a shot I captured while on a trip to Barcelona, Spain.

If you look for them, works of art are all around us.

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