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Organising a Victorian-Themed Fancy Dress Party
One of the highlights of themed parties is in the dressing-up and the costumes. For a truly authentic Victorian-themed party, encourage your guests to dress in Victorian attire.
Organising a Victorian-Themed Fancy Dress Party
The Victorian era was a highly influential period of romance, elegance, grandeur and chivalry. For those of us lucky enough to live in a Victorian period home, restoring the property back to its original glory is a rewarding and enjoyable task. As well as making the very most of your home's best features, this is also an excellent way to add value to your house. And one very popular way to show off your fully restored, elegant and grand…
The Victorian Dinner Party
Victorian dinner parties were opportunities to show one’s affluence and style and sometimes a hostess would choose a theme.
The Victorian Dinner Party
The Victorian dinner party was a grand, flamboyant and opulent affair. Picture if you will an endless procession of soups, fish, meats, salads, vegetables, puddings, ices, meringues and pastries served on exquisitely decorated china and serving dishes and a dining table heavily decorated with flowers, ferns and stands of fruit and decorated cakes. By the mid 1870’s it was not uncommon for up to 12 or 13 courses to be served by the…
Choosing Victorian Wooden Mouldings And Wood Coving
Wood mouldings can really enhance the interior décor of a Victorian or period house.
Choosing Victorian Wooden Mouldings And Wood Coving
Wood mouldings can really enhance the interior décor of a Victorian or period house. The house would have originally had a wide variety of decorative Victorian wooden mouldings and ideally these should all be present in any good period or Victorian house restoration.
Why period property is a good financial investment
Period property improvements will add value to your period home and you may never want to move again!
Why period property is a good financial investment
The first point to make is the logical one involving the numbers. They just don’t make them any more - the existing stock of period properties is never going to expand. As the housing stock is added to, we find that the proportion of period properties to non-period properties decreases. Anything in short supply will maintain or increase in value if the demand stays the same or increases.
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