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Practical Advice - Décor
Source Period Features to Recreate a Victorian Interior
At The Victorian Emporium, we offer a service which helps you source period features and products needed in order to recreate a Victorian interior you may have seen and wished to reproduce in your own home or indeed on a film, TV or photographic set.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
