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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.
Choosing Victorian Style Wallpaper
During Victorian times wallpapers were an essential element of interior decoration, suddenly financially accessible for many homeowners and giving the Victorian family a great opportunity to show their wealth and impeccable taste which was seen in the intricacy…
Choosing Victorian Style Wallpaper
During Victorian times wallpapers were an essential element of interior decoration, suddenly financially accessible for many homeowners and giving the Victorian family a great opportunity to show their wealth and impeccable taste which was seen in the intricacy of design and rich colour palette of the papers they chose to decorate their house with.
How to make reproduction wood panelling
We are often asked if we sell solid oak panelling such as that in the images shown. Genuine old wood panelling is made out of a number of separate solid wood elements and cannot be sold as one individual off the shelf item. Usually this is fabricated on site as…
How to make reproduction wooden panelling
We are often asked if we sell solid oak panelling such as that in the images shown. Genuine old wood panelling is made out of a number of separate solid wood elements and cannot be sold as one individual off the shelf item. Usually this is fabricated on site as panelling needs to be designed and built around the dimensions of the space/wall it is being used to clad. Most of the elements you need to create panelling are relatively cheap…
How to make the most of your Victorian mouldings
A truly central part of Victorian interior design was plaster and wooden mouldings, present in most rooms and consisting of plaster cornice, ceiling roses, often incorporating intricate designs and made on site in the grander houses and as off the shelf designs…
How to make the most of your Victorian mouldings
A truly central part of Victorian interior design was plaster and wooden mouldings, present in most rooms and consisting of plaster cornice, ceiling roses, often incorporating intricate designs and made on-site in the grander houses and as off the shelf designs for the more run of the mill households. Also wooden picture rail, Victorian architrave, dado, skirting boards and wooden panelling. Mouldings, chosen correctly, somehow make…
Choosing Victorian paint colours for your refurbished period
If you’ve purchased a Victorian property, chances are you love old buildings and their character. However, while many of us are keen to live in a period house and enjoy its original features, we don’t wish to be 100% faithful to the Victorians’ ideas about…
Choosing Victorian paint colours for your refurbished period home
If you’ve purchased a Victorian property, chances are you love old buildings and their character. However, while many of us are keen to live in a period house and enjoy its original features, we don’t wish to be 100% faithful to the Victorians’ ideas about home décor and you’ll also wish to incorporate the comforts of modern living. Here’s what you need to know about how the Victorians used colour and their choice of Victorian paint…
Dining room mirrors
In most period houses there are fireplaces in every room. In the reception rooms, these tend to be a really lovely feature around which the room is arranged, with colourful decorative fireplace tiles both sides of the hearth and a nice mantelpiece above. There…
Dining room mirror decorating ideas
In most period houses there are fireplaces in every room. In the reception rooms, these tend to be a really lovely feature around which the room is arranged, with colourful decorative fireplace tiles both sides of the hearth and a nice mantelpiece above. There is nothing more lovely than sitting down to a good meal on a cold day in a period dining room with the fire burning in the grate.
Buying a listed building
In England there are approximately 376,099 listed buildings. There are many positive reasons to buy a listed building, but there are also some elements that you need to be aware of before you sign on the dotted line.
Buying a listed building
In England there are approximately 376,099 listed buildings. There are many positive reasons to buy a listed building, but there are also some elements that you need to be aware of before you sign on the dotted line.
Period Property Renovation: Our Guide to Success
With our guide we hope to help you avoid many of the pitfalls a renovation project can pose both to your period property in terms of costly mistakes and bad decisions and also your general wellbeing, health and of course your bank balance.
Period Property Renovation: Our Guide to Success
Find out how to plan your period property renovation project with our guide: avoid the pitfalls and costly mistakes to achieve the character home of your dreams. Finding and purchasing a renovation project fills many people with excitement and often this excitement leads them into making hasty decisions and regretting them later. The initial honeymoon period of a project, filled with ideas, vision and enthusiasm can quickly turn to…
Renovating for profit
In this article we hope to give you a few pointers about how to renovate for profit. This may seem obvious but renovating a property for profit entails keeping the purchase price of your property and your renovation budget as low as possible and maximizing the…
Renovating for Profit
In this article we hope to give you a few pointers about how to renovate for profit. This may seem obvious but renovating a property for profit entails keeping the purchase price of your property and your renovation budget as low as possible and maximizing the selling or rental price of the finished property.
Carpet Victorian stairs
In a period house, stairs somehow look incomplete without a carpet on your Victorian stairs. There are different types of stair carpet you can use on your stairs. The main choice to make is whether you want the carpet to come to the very sides of your stairs…
How to carpet your Victorian stairs
In a period house, stairs somehow look incomplete without a carpet on your Victorian stairs. There are different types of stair carpet you can use on your stairs. The main choice to make is whether you want the carpet to come to the very sides of your stairs and meet the wall, which tends to be a more contemporary look, or whether you want to use a stair runner, which is a carpet that runs down the centre of the stairs leaving the edges…
What’s the right size ceiling rose for my room?
This is a question we get asked at least once a week at The Victorian Emporium. There are no specific rules on sizes of plaster and wooden mouldings to be used to replace those original to the property. However the general rule of thumb is that when the right…
What’s the right size ceiling rose for my room?
This is a question we get asked at least once a week at The Victorian Emporium. There are no specific rules on sizes of plaster and wooden mouldings to be used to replace those original to the property. However the general rule of thumb is that when the right size of mouldings are chosen, they will just look “right” in that room. And of course if there is a record of what was there originally i.e. you are replacing a damaged or removed…