The architect used all types of art in the exterior and interior of the building: ceramics, carving, textiles, wall paintings. The zemstvo house was designed in such a way that it began to impress even from a distance. As conceived by the Kharkiv architect, glazed blue-green tiles were laid on the roof in a mosaic order so that they would play with colors in the sun. Local historians say that Vasily Krichevsky watched this work from the roof of another house and gave instructions to the workers with the help of flags. Thousands of ceramic tiles were made by Poltava craftsmen to decorate the building. Thanks to this project, Vasily Krychevsky is called the founder of Ukrainian Art Nouveau as a style of architecture. Actually, the creators of this house themselves felt like pioneers, because it was not by chance that they wrote on the mortgage board: "We are the pioneers of the Ukrainian style. An error is not made for falsehood. We did everything we could. Whoever can, let him do better than us."