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Using Decorative Curtain Accessories
The curtain pole is the most important curtain accessory as without a curtain pole the curtain would be unable to hang in front of the window.
Using Decorative Curtain Accessories
There is no point spending a lot of money on a beautiful luxurious curtain fabric and then skimping on the curtain accessories that you use. Curtain accessories and the curtains themselves should be seen as an investment as if you buy good quality products, with proper care they should last you a decade or more. Curtain accessories are best thought of as a whole rather than piecemeal as you will most likely wish to get decorative curtain…
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.
Tiles for Victorian porches
The Victorian porch provided ample opportunity to show this facet of the Victorians to the full. The typical Victorian porch would be reached after a short walk from the gate, up the tiled pathway, and then up a step or two.
Tiles for Victorian porches
The Victorians were always keen to show others the extent of their wealth and good taste, and as such their houses should be viewed within this context. Ornate plasterwork, decorative wooden mouldings, chandeliers, decorative gates and railings should all be seen as ways of demonstrating to any guests the prosperity and regard for aesthetics of the householder.
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.
Enhancing Your Home With Victorian Curtain Tie Backs
A fine pair of curtains are nearly always enhanced with a curtain tie back. These can be made from the same or complementary fabric as the curtains in which case they will need to be stiffened with buckram.
Enhancing Your Home With Victorian Curtain Tie Backs
A fine pair of curtains are nearly always enhanced with a pair of Victorian curtain tie backs. These can be made from the same or complementary fabric as the curtains in which case they will need to be stiffened with buckram. Tasselled tie-backs can come in silk, wool or cotton style and it is usual to match like with like i.e. a cotton curtain with a cotton style tie back but it is really entirely up to individual taste.
Steampunk Interiors
Steampunk refers to retro-technology (a technology possibly powered through steam) such as analogue computers set in a fantastical alternate history of the 19th century.
Steampunk Interiors
Will Steampunk Interiors be the new mainstream? It looks as if it is poised to conquer and evidence of this emerging trend can already be seen in jewellery, fashion and film but what about interior design? For those who aren’t initiated to the Steampunk cult, Steampunk in it’s purest form started as the perverted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism and originally a genre of fiction.
Upholstery fabric
Traditional upholstered furniture tends to have a large repeat pattern and when reupholstering a chair or sofa, using a traditional fabric with a large repeat pattern in traditional colours will make the chair fit well within a period interior.
Upholstery fabric
Fabric is used for a variety of purposes and generally the requirements of the fabric for each distinct purpose are different. For example for curtain fabric you may have unique requirements for each window depending on your room, window size and type and the side of the house it is on. You may want a sheer fabric that stops passers by seeing in but that allows light into a dark room. Or you may have draughty single glazed windows and…
What Is A Ceiling Rose?
The benefits of a ceiling rose are that it frames the connection and makes a feature of the light. It will add glamour and make a room look dressed and of it's historic period.
What Is A Ceiling Rose?
Perhaps you have been researching Victorian properties and may be wondering 'what is a ceiling rose?'. In any room, the obvious place to have the most important and largest source of light is in the centre of the room, so for many hundreds of years there would have been a central pendant light. Traditionally ceiling roses in the centre of rooms were used to obscure the fixings used to hang a light fitting – this idea has been continued…
Using Luxury Silk Fabric In Your Victorian Home
If there is one item we most strongly associate with Victorian interiors it is the heavy sumptuousness of often elaborate curtains and drapery which adorned all homes.
Using Luxury Silk Fabric In Your Victorian Home
If there is one item we most strongly associate with Victorian interiors it is the heavy sumptuousness of often elaborate curtains and drapery which adorned all homes. Thick velvets, luxury silk fabric, damasks and tapestries will most definitely add glamour and luxury to the humblest or simplest of rooms but may make a small room dark unless chosen with care. It is generally advisable that large patterns and dark colours do not suit…
What Are Corbels?
Corbels come in many different designs and sizes from the simple scroll cutshape corbel with strong lines, the fluted corbel to the large highly decorative corbels. It’s down to personal taste and the style of the room where the corbel is to be used which is…
What Are Corbels?
If you've been researching Victorian properties, you may be wondering 'what are corbels?' Corbels are a decorative feature that can be used in many different places to enhance the interior of your period home. Anything that looks like it needs to be supported such as shelves or mantelpieces could be enhanced by decorative corbels.