Publications
How-To Tips - General
Tips for Maintaining Victorian Homes
An old, historic home is subject to many structural and internal problems that may require sustained attention. Here are a few easy tips for identifying problem areas and properly maintaining a Victorian home.
Tips for Maintaining Victorian Homes
Victorian homes are historical icons and require a specific degree of maintenance to preserve the period style and function of the home. Like any other home, regular maintenance will help increase the value of the home. Renovating and maintaining a Victorian home to preserve its original character can be time consuming and may eat away at your budget very quickly. Since finding and replacing traditional accessories can be a hassle, it is…
How to add value to your period home
Here are a number of aspects to check and if not found to be satisfactory, improve, in any home, and if done properly should maximise the value of a period home.
How to add value to your period home
This article seeks to assist the period or Victorian home owner in making the right decisions when it comes to spending a finite budget on home improvements. There are various ways to add value to your period home and this article is meant to provide some tips and ideas.
How to save original Victorian ceiling coving
Cornice is used to provide a join between the walls and the ceiling of a house. They are usually used as primarily a decorative feature but as a vestige of the Greek classical order make the room look somehow complete and in proportion.
How to save original Victorian ceiling coving
Cornice is used to provide a join between the walls and the ceiling of a house and is common in all downstairs rooms but often not upstairs. They are usually used as primarily a decorative feature but as a vestige of the Greek classical order make the room look somehow complete and in proportion. Interior Cornice or plaster coving, which are really the same thing, is a really important element of a period house.
