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Victorian wallpaper, much like many of this year’s runway styles, was brightly colored and often full of floral designs. Those looks might strike you dead, but in the Victorian period, ...
The beautifully designed book includes facsimiles of 275 Victorian wallpapers, all of which were found to contain arsenic after recent testing by the British National Archives.
The Wallpaper Inside This California Victorian Costs More Than a Lot of Homes On the market for $2.25 million, the historic Escondido property got about $400,000 worth of wall treatments during 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 ...
Chronicle file photoThe Tri-Cities Historical Museum in downtown Grand Haven.GRAND HAVEN — Time was a precious commodity in 2004 as Tri-Cities Historical Museum officials prepared to open a new ...
W hen I bought my 1895 Queen Anne Victorian, I knew it had a basement apartment, but I hadn't seen it. In theory, ...
It had been hidden for 150 years. I pulled it out, it was white wallpaper but it had this beautiful green that I had never seen before. The architect said, 'That's arsenic wallpaper.' I had never ...
They sourced an 1895 fireplace from Architectural Salvage, incorporated period-appropriate furniture pieces wherever possible, and had Victorian wallpaper hand painted in the front room.
The wallpaper was a blue and green block print, likely not original to the house since I found a more distinctly Victorian wallpaper with roses hiding behind it.