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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…
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…
Period bathrooms and how to accommodate all mod cons
Period bathrooms are becoming more and more fashionable and by no means oblige you to make any compromises at all in terms of luxury and comfort. However there are some features that may be difficult to incorporate into a period bathroom without ruining the…
Period bathrooms and how to accommodate all mod cons
The bathroom, like the kitchen, is a functional room of the house where jobs are to be carried out. Therefore it is essential that the tools for the job are functional as well as fit into an interior design scheme. If you live in a period home in which you wish to have a period bathroom, remember that your house would never have originally even had a bathroom.
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…
Wooden or Brass Curtain Pole Brackets?
Curtain pole brackets are there to hold up curtain poles which are there to hold up your curtains. Curtain pole brackets are of two types and can be static or extendable, with long poles or heavy curtains requiring more than 2 brackets.
Wooden or Brass Curtain Pole Brackets?
Curtain pole brackets are one of those essential items that is often overlooked when thinking about and planning your curtains. Cheaper curtain pole sets will likely consist of a curtain pole, finials, curtain rings and curtain pole brackets all in a matching finish. However curtain pole sets tend to be offered in a smaller selection of finishes, widths and lengths than individually purchased curtain poles and accessories. Top quality…
The restoration of a Victorian living room
Here is a story of a miserable Victorian living room invigorated through traditional décor and restoration of period features. A customer of ours, Mrs E Page, Linslade Beds tells the story of her restored Victorian dining room.
The Story of a Victorian Living Room given a new lease of life
A delightful Victorian Living Room is worth the endeavour. A great dining room may not only encourage you to eat more slowly as you enjoy your surroundings and aid digestion, but it can also be said that a refined environment could make your food taste better. Any improvements will, of course, add value to your house and in true Victorian fashion, impress your guests.
Decorating your baby’s nursery in Victorian style
Classic Victorian-style nursery furniture is elegant and long-lasting – so select quality pieces of furniture that are an investment for the future and can be passed down through the generations. If you want your nursery furniture to last, then buy flexible…
Decorating your baby’s nursery in Victorian style
When you are refurbishing your Victorian home, you’ll want to make sure that every room is decorated in keeping with the stylish and classic theme. A Victorian-style nursery can be both handsome and practical with the right furniture and décor to complement your beautiful home.
Choosing Victorian Style Bathroom Accessories
Bathrooms and kitchens in Victorian houses were functional rather than decorative and glamorous and as such the bathroom accessories that you choose should be functional and easy to clean if you wish to keep with the Victorian style.
Choosing Victorian Style Bathroom Accessories
Bathrooms are not typically Victorian – only the house of the middle and upper classes would have had bathrooms in Victorian times. So if you live in a typical Victorian workers terraced house, a bathroom would have been a new introduction to your house possibly around the 1950s. As such if you wish to recreate an authentic Victorian bathroom you will never be recreating one that was in your house originally. Just this mere fact in…
Essential elements of Victorian Kitchen Design
An important aspect of Victorian kitchen design was that all surfaces and wall coverings were washable. Larger Victorian kitchens would have a large central table for the preparation of meals, usually made of pine so that it could be scrubbed clean with sand,…
Essential elements of Victorian Kitchen Design
The Victorian kitchen was essentially the heart of the home – the room where the kitchen range stood, where water was heated and where food was prepared and cooked. The Victorian kitchen range was a multi purpose piece of kit which comprised ovens, a boiler and hobs around a central coal fire which was built into the fireplace. So it was naturally a place where people gathered in order to keep warm, eat and relax.
How a Victorian bathroom can enhance your period renovation
The typical bathroom was decorated fairly spartanly with tiling, usually white or off white, sometimes with elements of black; gloss painted walls or varnished paper above the dado level; simple tiles, linoleum or bleached pine floorboards on the floor for ease…
How a Victorian bathroom can enhance your period renovation
A bathroom was an innovation of the Victorian era. Previously a tin bath in front of the fire was used in the bedrooms of the grander houses. The maid or servant then had the onerous job of transporting hot water from the kitchen range where it had been boiled on the stove top, up the stairs and into the bath, which was both arduous and time consuming. Often the water was not even still very hot by the time the bath had been filled and…
