Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Juan Sandiego is the Founder of Boreal Abode , an interior decorating and styling company. Focus on Craft. Continue to 2 of 27 below. Pair Ornamentation with Simplicity. Continue to 3 of 27 below. Juxtapose Scales. Continue to 4 of 27 below. Include Your Own Personal Style. Continue to 5 of 27 below. Place Emphasis on Good Bones. Continue to 6 of 27 below. Go for Bold Colors. Continue to 7 of 27 below.
Ditch Symmetry. Continue to 8 of 27 below. Hide the Clutter Away or Embrace It. Continue to 9 of 27 below. Draw the Eye Down to the Floor. Continue to 10 of 27 below. Appreciate the Negative Spaces. Continue to 11 of 27 below.
Restore Existing Features. Continue to 12 of 27 below. Splurge on Luxurious Lighting. Continue to 13 of 27 below. Bring Outdoor Elements Inside. Continue to 14 of 27 below. Although indoor plumbing was available at the turn of the century, the bathrooms called water closets in Victorian days were usually cramped by today's standards.
The original owner of your old house may have needed a formal dining room and many small bedrooms. Your family may prefer to have a home office and a large primary bedroom suite. Many real estate associations, including the National Association of Home Builders, have classified the term "Master Bedroom" as discriminatory. Think creatively about new and different ways you can use the existing rooms in your house. Sometimes a room can be repurposed with very little remodeling. And don't forget the attic space.
Luxury bathrooms need not be on the ground floor with proper engineering. All Victorian-era homes are not huge, rambling, ghost-infested structures. The modern family may need more headroom than smaller cottage-like dwellings can offer. When adding new construction to your older home, leave the original house intact.
If future owners want to remove the addition, they should be able to do so without damaging the older portion of the house. Always make sure that your new addition is compatible with the architecture of the existing house. If you add a dormer, build it onto the side or back in order to retain the original facade.
Look closely at plans and elevation drawings of any addition. Use this checklist as your guide:. The first rule of remodeling is, "Do no harm. Living in an old house presents a difficult choice. Should you preserve the historic accuracy of your home? Or should you make some modernizations so that you can live more comfortably?
While this Victorian living room is filled with well-worn vintage furniture, the all-over white surfaces offer a huge dose of slick and contrasting modernity. Because the walls, floors, paintwork and original features have been layered in nothing but white, white and more white, the beautiful velvet chaise longue and antique rug have been given a new lease on life.
You can vary the shades and textures if you want to soften the effect. Accent with bold hues. While citrus yellow and fuchsia might not appear on a historical color chart, they can add personality to your 21st-century abode. This space is full of pretty touches, including the multicolored chandelier, cute wallpaper and retro fringed lampshade, which give this vintage room a fresh update without taking away from its character. Create clever contrasts. However, with a low-slung sofa and slick sideboard, the ornate cornicing, carved panels and decorative plasterwork really shine.
What helps to hold together this juxtaposition of eras is the considered color scheme, in which shades for the modern pieces have been picked from the stained glass window panels, installed by the original owner in Make an impact with modern art. Paint the walls in a deep, muted hue for an authentic touch that reflects the architectural heritage of your home this gray is actually rather Georgian, but it works in this Victorian house.
Then set a daring piece of modern art against it for a fabulous contrast. Period rooms can take all sorts of shades — partly due to their often grand proportions — from the darkest inky blue to stark, bright white. Add a neat storage wall. If you have the lofty proportions, sash windows and original cornices to start with, you can put almost anything into a period room and get away with it. Storage can be a problem in older houses, though, due to uneven walls, so building a custom wall of shelving for books and media can tackle clutter.
The traditional bed has a metal frame and headboard with a golden hue to it that matches the simple chandelier with a flower design and the table lamps placed on the bedside drawers and the white mantle of the fireplace by the foot of the bed.
The light pink ceiling is adorned with a peculiar decorative chandelier that looks like a dandelion. This goes well with the metal railing headboard of the traditional bed that has a decorative curtain in the same hue as the pink window curtains.
The entryway to this Victorian-style bedroom has dark brown wooden molding on its edges that contrast the light gray patterned wallpaper of the walls. This serves as a nice background for the dark wooden headboard of the bed that is topped with a couple of wall-mounted lamps. This is a colorful Victorian-style bedroom with various elegant patterns. The four-poster bed has red patterned sheets that stand out against its green patterned curtains.
These curtains stand out against the yellow patterned walls with floral patterns. This Victorian-style bedroom is dominated by the dark brown hues of the four-poster bed that matches with the rest of the various furniture that almost crowds in the room. This is contrasted by the blue walls and ceiling that has a lovely chandelier hanging over the sitting area.
This room is a wonderful fusion between the Victorian-style elements and the rustic elements of the distressed wood flooring and the shabby chic green walls with decorative smears on it. This is paired with white bedsheets and wooden boxes for a bedside table. The light blue wall is a nice cheerful contrast for the earthy dark wooden bedside drawers that match the headboard with a tufted beige cushion and the bed sheet that has a floral pattern on the sides.
This elegant Victorian-style bedroom has four-poster bed with brown patterned curtains and side skirts that blend with the brown floral wallpaper.
This is augmented by the large pink floral area rug of the sitting area and study area by the foot of the bed. The bed has beige sheets and pillows that blend with the wallpaper augmented by the warm yellow lights of the table lamps.
This is a bright and airy Victorian-style primary bedroom that has a traditional bed paired with an elegant tufted headboard of a brown velvet cushion. This matches the tufted wall panel behind the headboard that pairs well with the white ceiling that has a white chandelier in the middle. The elegant chandelier of the white coffered ceiling matches with the wall-mounted lamps on the white walls that have a beautiful finish complimenting the white bed and the sitting area that has a white chair paired with a white circular table flanked by large windows with gray curtains.
The maroon carpeting of the floor blends with the curtains of the window. This is paired with white wainscoting that matches with the bedsheets and contrasts the upper walls that have green patterned wallpaper that complements the customized wooden headboard. This Victorian-style primary bedroom has a high ceiling paired with tall walls dominated by elegant beige wallpaper with patterns. This makes the wooden mission-style bed stand out as well as its small bedside tables and the dresser on the by the brilliant window.
This Victorian-style bedroom is dominated by different shades of blue on its walls that have an elegant finish, its wainscoting and the traditional bed that matches in hue and design with the bedside drawer and dresser topped with a decorative wall-mounted mirror.
The green patterned carpeting of the floor together with the floral curtains of the window and bed provides a complex background of patterns and contrasting colors for the simple wooden bed and light green walls with wall-mounted artworks.
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