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The checkerboard floor in the main entry—“classic of those Victorian houses”—features Mandarin Stone’s Di Scacchi tumbled marble, set against Soane’s Wild Tulips wall covering from ...
“The pattern and scale of the Antoinette Poisson wallpaper hides the significant slanted ceiling and is created in the same technique as domino papers of the 1700s.” ...
This painted lady Victorian home was ironically gray before London designer Sarah Brown gave it a colorful British remake. These lessons will help you transform any room with color and pattern.
Look, there, on the wall: the most exquisite Victorian wallpaper pattern. On a blush of delicate pink, the color of a clamshell’s interior, eight circles burst from a round center, each with a ...
Wallpaper was a popular decorating item in Victorian Aspen. Shops advertised new shipments as soon as they arrived. Patterns and colors for decorating walls achieved as much attention as did fashions ...
The book is interleaved with 275 facsimiles of Victorian wallpaper samples, from The National Archives in London, that were scientifically proven to contain arsenic, an innocuous looking white ...
(CNN) — The human predilection for living alongside patterns can be traced back to our ancestors who marked the walls of their caves with dots, lines, zigzags and cross-hatching. Tens of ...
It’s not just the exterior shape of this Malden house that makes it a Victorian. It’s the interior, too, where the hall and dining room walls are adorned with hand-printed and silk-screened ...
Arsenic and Old Tastes Made Victorian Wallpaper Deadly Victorians were obsessed with vividly-colored wallpaper, which is on-trend for this year–though arsenic poisoning is never in style ...
Add a dimension with a Victorian-style tin ceiling look or a dusky shimmery pattern if it’s the lounge area you want to highlight. Matched with twinkling lights, it will make for a club effect.
When he pulls back the first strip of wallpaper, however, he is shocked to find a Victorian in the wall. Rob seems to think this is a fairly common occurrence and happily continues his building ...
A sweet wall covering—Cherry Pie in Pink, by British designer Honor Addington —adorns the walls in the children’s bathroom.