Vintage Interiors

[vitanola]

Not to pick on you my good man, but your Freudian slip tickled me.

If you like my Freudian Slip, you should see my Erin Go Bragh.

 

[HadleyH1]

I also like Victorian interiors with dark wood tones.

 

[vitanola]

I also like Victorian interiors with dark wood tones.

Both hallways want wallpaper, I think.

 

[2jakes]

Both hallways want wallpaper, I think.

I think it’s fine as is.
Unless the wallpaper is subtle otherwise it would look too busy.

 

[Studebaker Driver]

I think it’s fine as is.
Unless the wallpaper is subtle otherwise it would look too busy.

*Too* busy? In a Victorian?

 

[vitanola]

*Too* busy? In a Victorian?

Here is a good example:

The pattern tends to recede, and the effect of the woodwork against the wall is more textural, rather than a stark sillhouette.

 

[Fading Fast]

All of this is taste not fact in my opinion - busy, too busy, not busy, harmonious - each one sees it his / her own way and we feel "vindicated" if enough others are in our camp.

I love that Victorains exist and love seeing their very involved detail, but for me personally, it's too busy. But at 53, I know that is an opinion and not the fact I thought it was at 23.

I like the painted walls above because, to my eye, it turns down the busyness, but understand that a true Victorain would have the wallpaper Vitanola describes. I can also see that, in the aesthetic Victorians were going for, the wallpaper makes sense.

 

[HadleyH1]

Both hallways want wallpaper, I think.

In that case, this is the wallpaper I'd go for.....very pale, very unobtrusive....striped wallpaper is my favorite!

 

[2jakes]

In that case, this is the wallpaper I'd go for.....very pale, very unobtrusive....striped wallpaper is my favorite!

Very pleasing and whether it goes against "Victorian style" is irrelevant
to me. I love it.

 

[HadleyH1]

Very pleasing and whether it goes against "Victorian style" is irrelevant
to me. I love it.

Striped paper in general is totally Victorian style! it IS very Victorian!

 

[2jakes]

Striped paper in general is totally Victorian style! it IS very Victorian!

She would approve!

 

[vitanola]

In that case, this is the wallpaper I'd go for.....very pale, very unobtrusive....striped wallpaper is my favorite!

Well, perhaps not with the dark wood work. This was more along the lines of what I imagined:

If one is going to go late Victorian, then do it up Brown!
I like simple stripes in Colonial revival rooms. In fact I chose just such a paper for the dining room:

Which is furnished with L. & J. G. Stickley and Limbert Colonial Revival furniture from around 1910. That photo is not the finished room
It was taken while I was papering.

 

[1mach1]

How about car interiors?

 

[2jakes]

That wallpaper is gaudy. It takes away from the beauty of the wood.
It's too busy and not something I would want to see when I come
home to relax.

 

[HadleyH1]

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That wallpaper is gaudy. It takes away from the beauty of the wood.
It's too busy and not something I would want to come home
to relax.

I agree.

That's a bit too much.

 

[HadleyH1]

Which is furnished with L. & J. G. Stickley and Limbert Colonial Revival furniture from around 1910. That photo is not the finished room
It was taken while I was papering.

Very nice!

 

[HadleyH1]

Another Victorian interior that I love..... a bit of opulence, not too much....light and darkness...coziness.... a remenbrance of the past.....yes, a bit Proustian so to speak lol....so lovely...

 

[2jakes]

Something was missing.... but now it's complete. Cool!

 

[HadleyH1]

Another cozy little vintage corner- so totally incredible.... love it

I died and went to heaven....

I was born in the wrong time period....I I know it every day I have to wake up and have to face reality.

 

[HudsonHawk]

If we’re going with dark wood and bright colors, this is Moor (get it...) my style.