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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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
How to project manage a house renovation
So now you’re the proud owner of an old house that needs some work, the estate agent has just given you the keys and you’re full of creative ideas having already spent months poring over images of wallpaper, kitchens and bathrooms. But it's important to…
How to project manage a house renovation
So now you’re the proud owner of an old house that needs some work, the estate agent has just given you the keys and you’re full of creative ideas having already spent months poring over images of wallpaper, kitchens and bathrooms. But it's important to consider how to project manage a house renovation but you plunge headlong into the project.
