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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.
Home security tips for period properties
Period properties are about style and class of a certain era and yet sometimes also a bit of challenge. For the pleasure of living in a beautiful building with oodles of character and history, there are some modern touches you may need to learn to live without.…
Home security tips for period properties
Period properties are about style and class of a certain era and yet sometimes also a bit of challenge. For the pleasure of living in a beautiful building with oodles of character and history, there are some modern touches you may need to learn to live without. This is particularly the case if you own and live in a listed building, or your home is situated in a conservation area.
Traditional Restaurant lighting
The look and feel of a restaurant will be determined by a variety of elements of it’s interior and exterior design. One of the design features with the strongest impact will be the restaurant lighting. The style and the brightness of the light given out by…
Traditional Restaurant lighting
The look and feel of a restaurant will be determined by a variety of elements of it’s interior and exterior design. One of the design features with the strongest impact will be the restaurant lighting. The style and the brightness of the light given out by your restaurant light fittings presents a challenge to some venues.
Victorian Props
The Victorian Emporium can help with sourcing your period interior items. From Persian patterned stair runner carpets to recreate that grand staircase down which the protagonist will sweep
How to find Victorian Props for your TV, Film or Stage production
If you are designing the set for a TV or Film or indeed stage production set in the Victorian era you will undoubtedly require an array of Victorian Props to recreate the environments in which the action will take place. The Victorian era is currently a very popular setting – think of recent TV programmes, films and plays such as Poldark, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Mrs Brown, Far from the Madding Crowd, Emma, Sweeney Tood – the era…
Period property renovation management Beds, Herts and Bucks
Our house refurbishment project management service in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire provides help and advice for novice or indeed experienced renovators working on period properties where they are feeling out of their depth and in need of help…
House refurbishment project management in Bucks, Beds and Herts
Our house refurbishment project management service in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire provides help and advice for novice or indeed experienced renovators working on period properties where they are feeling out of their depth and in need of help and advice.
Our customers recommend...
Many of the products we sell at the Victorian Emporium are not simple DIY jobs to install and as such we thought a list of tried and tested tradesmen, as recommended by our customers, might be of use to purchasers of items such as stair runner carpet, railings…
Our customers recommend…
Many of the products we sell at the Victorian Emporium are not simple DIY jobs to install and as such we thought a list of tried and tested tradesmen, as recommended by our customers, might be of use to purchasers of items such as stair runner carpet, railings and cornice.
Victorian interior design ideas
When you’re the proud owner of a Victorian property needing modernisation or renovation it can be overwhelming when you are faced with the vast array of interior design choices available. You will need to make decisions on everything from wallpaper to flooring…
Victorian interior design ideas
When you’re the proud owner of a Victorian property needing modernisation or renovation it can be overwhelming when you are faced with the vast array of interior design choices available. You will need to make decisions on everything from wallpaper to flooring to paint colours to kitchen styles to furniture.
Introducing the Victorian Sarah Beeny
Many of you may well have avidly watched television programmes such as Property Ladder with Sarah Beeny, The Renovation Man with George Clarke and Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud. Maybe you’ve been looking back at your own home renovations projects and wished…
Introducing the Victorian Sarah Beeny
Many of you may well have avidly watched television programmes such as Property Ladder with Sarah Beeny, The Renovation Man with George Clarke and Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud. Maybe you’ve been looking back at your own home renovations projects and wished that in the difficult times, you could have benefitted from their morale boost, injection of enthusiasm and sounding board. With our first few period renovation projects, we felt…
Victorian Terrace Renovation
Of period properties that exist (pre 1900), Victorian properties are the most plentiful. And of the Victorian genre, the terrace is the iconic Victorian property. The origin of the many of the terraced houses that still exist lies in the generosity of Victorian…
Top Tips for Victorian Terrace Renovation
Of period properties that exist (pre 1900), Victorian properties are the most plentiful. And of the Victorian genre, the terrace is the iconic Victorian property. The origin of the many of the terraced houses that still exist lies in the generosity of Victorian entrepreneurs and factory owners who built whole streets and towns to house their workers. These clusters of houses had the added benefit of making the journey to their own home…
Your own Victorian Property Buying Agent
Part of our Victorian property consultancy service, our house refurbishment project management encompasses a service to help you make the right decision when considering purchasing a period renovation project. We’d be delighted to provide you with your very own…
Your own Victorian Property Buying Agent
Part of our Victorian property consultancy service encompasses a service to help you make the right decision when considering purchasing a period renovation project. We’d be delighted to provide you with your very own period property buying agent or adviser specialising in the purchase of Victorian period properties.We have many years of experience in purchasing, renovating and selling period properties successfully.
Reclamation yard top tips
When you are renovating a period property, it’s the unique and authentic vintage elements that you add to it that make the project truly memorable. We are passionate about finding the best vintage or quality reproduction items to transform period properties…
Reclamation yard top tips
When you are renovating a period property, it’s the unique and authentic vintage elements that you add to it that make the project truly memorable.We are passionate about finding the best vintage or quality reproduction items to transform period properties from projects to a stylish Victorian period property house refurbishment project management success!