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General Advice on Victorian living
Welcome to the General Advice area of The Victorian Emporium. Here you can view and read all of our advice articles on their various subjects.
Bedroom using a Victorian colour scheme
Choosing a Victorian colour scheme to decorate your home can be tricky, but with a bit of background information, you should be able to narrow down to what is right and wrong for your house. We provide you with ideas on how to pay homage to the historic…
Top Tips for Choosing the Perfect Victorian Colour Scheme
Choosing a Victorian colour scheme to decorate your home can be tricky, but with a bit of background information, you should be able to narrow down what is right and wrong for your house. Here, we provide you with ideas on how to pay homage to the historic period.
Our Guide on Getting Period Home Extensions Right
If you have recently purchased a period property you could well be considering extending your house. People often look to extend their house because they need more space, often after they’ve had children and realised that kids stuff takes up lots of room.…
Our Guide on Getting Period Home Extensions Right
If you have recently purchased a period property you could well be considering extending your house. People often look to extend their house because they need more space, often after they’ve had children and realised that kids stuff takes up lots of room.
How to create a Victorian rockery
During the Victorian era, fashionable gardeners created a wide range of artificial landscapes from rockeries and ferneries to elaborate water gardens. These brought together many elements of Victorian interests and passions such as garden design, landscaping,…
How to create a Victorian rockery
During the Victorian era, fashionable gardeners created a wide range of artificial landscapes from rock gardens and ferneries to elaborate water gardens. A Victorian rockery embodied their passion for travel, plant collecting and gardening. It brought together many elements of Victorian interests and passions such as garden design, landscaping, botany, geology and innovation in materials and techniques. As rockeries becomes increasingly…
How to make your garden look like a Victorian garden
The size of the garden of a Victorian house can really vary and tends to depend on what type of house you live in. In urban areas, most terraced and semi detached Victorian houses have a small strip of garden the width of the house but often really long with…
How to make your garden look like a Victorian garden
The size of the garden of a Victorian house can really vary and tends to depend on what type of house you live in. In urban areas, most terraced and semi detached Victorian houses have a small strip of garden the width of the house but often really long with room for borders, a pathway, a seating area and a compost heap! On the other hand many city terraces may have just a small yard with space for a couple of chairs.
Is a Victorian roll top bath right for you and your home?
If you live in a Victorian house with a spacious bathroom, you may feel overwhelmed by the choice of different styles, sizes, shapes and depths of baths available as well as the different materials these baths are made from. Depending on your space, a Victorian…
Is A Victorian Roll Top Bath Right For You And Your Home?
If you live in a Victorian house with a spacious bathroom, there are many different bath options for you and you may feel overwhelmed by the choice of different styles, sizes, shapes and depths of baths available as well as the different materials these baths are made from. Depending on your space, a Victorian roll top bath could be a great option.
How to choose a Reproduction Fireplace for your house
If your house was “modernised” in the 1970s or 1980s, you may have the unenviable task of having to replace all of the period features that have been ripped out of your house to give it back some authentic personality. This can seem like a daunting task but it…
How to choose a Reproduction Fireplace for your house
If your house was “modernised” in the 1970s or 1980s, you may have the unenviable task of having to replace all of the period features that have been ripped out of your house to give it back some authentic personality. This can seem like a daunting task but it is easily achievable and there are loads of authentic period-style products on the market. These may end up costing you quite a large sum of money but a house with beautiful and…
Creating your Victorian style living room to enjoy
The very term living room itself would imply different usages for the room in different eras. In the Victorian period, a living room would have been a room dedicated to receiving guests and in smaller houses this would be known as the front room. In larger…
Creating your Victorian style living room to enjoy
The very term living room itself would imply different usages for the room in different eras. In a Victorian house, the living room would have been a room dedicated to receiving guests and in smaller houses this would be known as the front room. In larger houses the living room might be an informal private area where the family relaxed. If we define the term living room as a general space where one can relax and socialise, it should…
Fine cabinet furniture handles
Using good quality furniture handles can really make a massive difference to whether furniture appears to be of good quality or not. Ironmongery can be viewed as jewellery for furniture, being there to serve a function but also to decorate and adorn the piece…
Using Fine Cabinet Furniture Handles
Using good quality fine cabinet furniture handles can really make a massive difference to whether furniture appears to be of good quality or not. Ironmongery can be viewed as jewellery for furniture, being there to serve a function but also to decorate and adorn the piece of furniture and make it unique.
Shower curtain rails
Traditionally shower curtain rails with shower curtains provide a cheap way of keeping water within a shower area and are typically used for showers over a bath but they can also be used with simple shower trays or in wet rooms. This is a much cheaper way of…
Choosing A Victorian Shower Curtain Rail
Traditionally a Victorian shower curtain rail with shower curtain provides a cheap way of keeping water within a shower area and are typically used for showers over a bath but they can also be used with simple shower trays or in wet rooms. This is a much cheaper way of containing the flow of shower water within a bathroom when compared with building a shower enclosure with solid walls or using a glass shower enclosure on tracks. Also the…
Do you need tall skirting boards for your house?
Tall skirting boards are to be found in most Victorian houses but more so if the house has high ceilings. This is because in Victorian houses, the ceilings tend to be high and to balance these rooms and give them some proportion, decorative mouldings are used…
Do You Need Tall Skirting Boards?
Tall skirting boards are to be found in most Victorian houses because the ceilings tend to be high, and to balance these rooms and give them some proportion, decorative mouldings are used on the walls and ceilings. High ceilings were a relatively new phenomenon in the Victorian era as in previous periods such as Georgian times, high ceilings were seen as a luxury only for the super rich because it meant building your house taller than…