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Tuesday, 6 March 2007
THE DINING ROOM circa 1880
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WALLS Some Americans called the dining room the “eating room”. Ella Rodman Church wrote, “The common practice of furnishing dining-rooms in ...
Sunday, 4 March 2007
THE FRONT HALL circa 1880
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The information in this section is culled from two books, one British the other American, published in 1880 and 1882. Both were very similar...
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
THE BEDROOM AND BOUDOIR CIRCA 1880
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Victorians were developing a mania about clean, undisease-laden fresh air. One of the reasons for having a fireplace in the bedroom was that...
Saturday, 24 February 2007
A view of 19th century architecture as seen from 1907
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An excerpt from the book THE HOUSE : its plan, decoration and care 1907 Isabel Bevier TRANSITIONAL HOMES The word transition suggests chan...
What a House Should Be???
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THE HOUSE THAT JILL BUILT AFTER JACK’S HAD PROVED A FAILURE 1882 By E.C.Gardner , revised 1895 "It appears, Jack, my dear, to be abs...
Thursday, 15 February 2007
THE VICTORIAN BATHROOM
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There were house plans in the 1850’s that showed bathrooms. There were plans in the 1890’s that showed none. Some of the earlier rooms labe...
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
IN THE VICTORIAN DRAWING ROOM
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If you’ve read the other articles, pertaining to color and design, that related what the critics felt was right or wrong, well, this is a sl...
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