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Choosing Bathroom Lighting

Choosing Bathroom Lighting

Choosing the right bathroom lighting and suggested positioning for lights.

Choosing Bathroom Lighting

22 Jan 2013

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 a Reproduction Fireplace for your house

How to choose a Reproduction Fireplace for your house

If your house was “modernised” in the 1970s or 1980s, you may have the unenviable task of having to replace all of the period features that have been ripped out of your house to give it back some authentic personality. This can seem like a daunting task but it…

How to choose a Reproduction Fireplace for your house

05 May 2016

If your house was “modernised” in the 1970s or 1980s, you may have the unenviable task of having to replace all of the period features that have been ripped out of your house to give it back some authentic personality. This can seem like a daunting task but it is easily achievable and there are loads of authentic period-style products on the market. These may end up costing you quite a large sum of money but a house with beautiful and…

Choosing A Victorian Shower Curtain Rail

Shower curtain rails

Traditionally shower curtain rails with shower curtains provide a cheap way of keeping water within a shower area and are typically used for showers over a bath but they can also be used with simple shower trays or in wet rooms. This is a much cheaper way of…

Choosing A Victorian Shower Curtain Rail

01 Feb 2016

Traditionally a Victorian shower curtain rail with shower curtain provides a cheap way of keeping water within a shower area and are typically used for showers over a bath but they can also be used with simple shower trays or in wet rooms. This is a much cheaper way of containing the flow of shower water within a bathroom when compared with building a shower enclosure with solid walls or using a glass shower enclosure on tracks. Also the…

Choosing Victorian Style Wallpaper

Choosing Victorian Style Wallpaper

During Victorian times wallpapers were an essential element of interior decoration, suddenly financially accessible for many homeowners and giving the Victorian family a great opportunity to show their wealth and impeccable taste which was seen in the intricacy…

Choosing Victorian Style Wallpaper

27 Jan 2016

During Victorian times wallpapers were an essential element of interior decoration, suddenly financially accessible for many homeowners and giving the Victorian family a great opportunity to show their wealth and impeccable taste which was seen in the intricacy of design and rich colour palette of the papers they chose to decorate their house with. 

How to Choose Victorian Cast Iron Radiators

How to Choose Victorian Cast Iron Radiators

Cast iron radiators can be supplied in a variety of finishes nowadays including plain, painted in any colour including metallic colours, sandblasted, antiqued and polished.

How to Choose Victorian Cast Iron Radiators

22 Jan 2013

Cast iron radiators have had a resurgence in popularity recently both for aesthetic reasons within period house restorations and possibly partly due to the fact that they retain their heat better and stay warmer for longer than radiators that are not cast iron. Cast iron radiators are a beautiful traditional feature that will enhance the room of any period home. They are made in columns, which determines their depth out of the wall, and…

Choosing A Victorian Style Toilet Roll Holder

Choosing A Victorian Style Toilet Roll Holder

In a period style home there are a number of different designs of toilet roll holders that would be suitable alongside your Victorian toilet and can be matched with other chrome bathroom accessories.

Choosing A Victorian Style Toilet Roll Holder

22 Jan 2013

Toilet roll holders are an essential accessory for any bathroom. Toilet rolls if left on the floor or on top of the toilet can be unhygienic to use or fall in and block the toilet. A Victorian style roilet roll holder can help keep your bathroom tidy and hygienic whilst also adding to your period home.

Choosing The Right Victorian Chandeliers

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

22 Jan 2013

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 Victorian Curtain Poles

Choosing Victorian Curtain Poles

Curtain poles are available in many different price ranges from basic wood or brass poles that are cut to fit the window, to hand made bespoke finished curtain poles.

Choosing Victorian Curtain Poles

22 Jan 2013

To keep the heat in or the sun out on hot days, Victorians would use both blinds and curtains combined on the same windows. Curtains would be changed according to the seasons with heavy fabrics with good insulation properties used for Winter curtains and lighter ones used in Spring and Summer. On Winter curtains, a thermal type of thick lining would be used to keep out drafts.

Choosing Victorian Interior Lighting

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

22 Jan 2013

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.

Choosing Victorian Curtain Fabrics

Choosing Victorian Curtain Fabrics

Follow the general rules that the Victorians stuck to when choosing Victorian curtain fabric or material for your Victorian house renovation.

Choosing Victorian Curtain Fabrics

22 Jan 2013

Well-chosen Victorian curtain fabrics and vintage style upholstery fabric designs can really add to the authentic Victorian atmosphere in any room of your period home. To keep that genuine Victorian feel, try to follow the general rules that the Victorians stuck to when choosing Victorian curtain fabric or material for your Victorian house renovation.