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How to make your garden look like a Victorian garden
The size of the garden of a Victorian house can really vary and tends to depend on what type of house you live in. In urban areas, most terraced and semi detached Victorian houses have a small strip of garden the width of the house but often really long with…
How to make your garden look like a Victorian garden
The size of the garden of a Victorian house can really vary and tends to depend on what type of house you live in. In urban areas, most terraced and semi detached Victorian houses have a small strip of garden the width of the house but often really long with room for borders, a pathway, a seating area and a compost heap! On the other hand many city terraces may have just a small yard with space for a couple of chairs.
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.
Where to buy period lighting
Choosing the right period lighting for your renovation project can make or break a interior design scheme. Without using period style accessories including lighting in your Victorian home renovation, the whole renovation can end up looking cheap and badly done.…
Where to buy period lighting
Without using period style accessories including period lighting in your Victorian home renovation, the whole renovation can end up looking cheap and badly done. The finishing touches are those that make the most impact on the viewer. So period light switches and a period chandelier will make more of an impression than your choice of floor stain. Many Victorian features that you are wishing to restore or replace can be ornate and…
Why buy reproduction victorian lighting
Victorian reproduction lighting is very popular for those people wishing to restore a period property. Some amazing examples of Victorian antique lighting exist. But it is better to buy antique Victorian lighting or reproductions?
Why buy reproduction victorian lighting rather than antique lighting?
Victorian reproduction lighting is very popular for those people wishing to restore a period property. The Victorian era was the first era where electric lighting existed, and the Victorians certainly made the most of it with a wealth of brass, crystal and glass lighting designed and made. Some amazing examples of Victorian antique lighting exist. But it is better to buy antique Victorian lighting or reproductions?
How To Use Victorian Lamps And Shades
There are a wide variety of attractive Victorian lamps and shades available that complement a Victorian interior, which can be perfect tools for paper work in studies and offices, for reading in an armchair and for lighting up specific areas in your home.
How To Use Victorian Lamps And Shades
Victorian lamps and shades were widely used, and usually Victorian lamps were placed on a small side table by the side of each chair in the parlour where people might read, knit, or sew. This gave a bright pool of light in the important spot where it was required for close up work. Lamps continue to be used in this way. We tend to use a large overhead light to provide general illumination in the room with specific pools of light provided…
Adding Period Light Switches And Sockets In Your Home
Light switches are a small but really important element that can make a big difference – this is something you touch many times per day so buy the best you can afford to take real pleasure in every day activities.
Adding Period Light Switches And Sockets In Your Home
When it comes to house renovations, missing out period light sockets and switches and opting for cheap plastic ones can really let your house renovation down. Something that can really make a difference to the finish of your period property is using brass sockets and switches which needn’t be cost prohibitive.
Choosing The Right Victorian Chandeliers
Good quality chandeliers are expensive and should be viewed as an investment for your home.
Choosing The Right Victorian Chandeliers
Good quality Victorian chandeliers are expensive and should be viewed as an investment for your home. If you choose a classic chandelier, you will be able to take it from house to house with you if you choose to and it should last you and your offspring a lifetime or more.
Choosing Bathroom Lighting
Choosing the right bathroom lighting and suggested positioning for lights.
Choosing Bathroom Lighting
Choosing bathroom lighting and the correct positioning for lights can be tricky. The bathroom is a room where lighting needs to be bright to enable activities to be carried out with ease. There is nothing worse than plucking ones eyebrows in semi darkness with inadequate bathroom lights.
How to choose the right light for your Victorian room
Choosing the right interior lighting for the ambiance of the room and having the right amount of light for the activity that goes on it that room.
Choosing Victorian Interior Lighting
When choosing Victorian interior lighting for your period home, there are many different factors to consider. One of the most important considerations for interior lighting and ambiance of the room and having the right amount of light for the activity that goes on it that room.
Victorian and period style lighting effect
In Victorian homes lighting was used sparingly. There were several small pools of light created in each room, next to chairs and over tables rather than a large central bright light in every room.
Victorian and period style lighting – how to achieve the authentic Victorian effect
A very important point to make is that Victorian lighting was not very bright, especially outdoor lighting. A gas street lamp only illuminated a few feet around its post and as they were placed at some distance apart a lot of the outdoors was not illuminated at all. It could be said that any exterior Victorian lighting served the purpose of providing distant points of brightness to aim for. So when choosing exterior lighting for your…
