decorating a victorian house?

I’m in the process of purchasing my favorite house in the world, an 1860′s victorian house. My husband is going to do all the restoring and I’m doing all the decorating. I just wish that I had pictures of various Victorian or “country cottage” style rooms. Are there any good websites that showing pictures like this? I like antique designs, and I like either clean bright colors & styles (lilacs, baby blues, crystal, white wood) or dark victorian styles ( plums, burgundy, hunter green, cast iron, dark wood) so either would be great. I want to see all my options so I can get it together here. So what are some good websites to see ideas? Has anyone out there restored a Victorian house who can tell me about it?
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Design Secrets They Wont Tell You! (Wall Decals)


paintlessdesign.com?t=utoverlap Here’s another fun technique for you to use on your walls with PAINTLESS design wall decals. Overlapping! Yes, Home decor is fun again! PAINTLESS design wall stickers and wall decals apply to ANY smooth surface including windows, walls, furniture, showers, and so much more to help you with your (home decorating). Because wall stickers are smooth you can be applied to itself by overlapping for a fun look that adds depth to your walls. wall tattoos come in so many different colors like black wall decals and pink wall decals. Perhaps your (home decor) is in blue. We even have blue wall decals. You can use them in nursery wall stickers, get jungle theme wall decals, or clouds wall stickers. there are so many to choose from. If you need (home decorating ideas) then try us out. We love home decor but we **** the mess it can make. Wall decals in your home decor makes it fun again. go to www.paintlessdesign.com to see all of the designs available like bamboo wall decals and stickers, fish wall decals and even childrens rooms wall stickers. so much fun!

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Home Decorating Ideas – How to Incorporate Mirrors into Your Home Decorating



One of the ways to make a room appear larger is to incorporate mirrors into your home d

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Step inside a modern country-style home that’s dressed for Christmas

Housetohome.co.uk takes a room-by-room tour around an Alpine style home for Christmas decorating tips and inspiration.
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Perfect Accessories For Every Home in the Room



Home accessories offer a great way to reinforce your design approach and express your own unique personality. Every room in your home offers space and potential for carefully positioned accessories. There are some common home accessories that always work well in various rooms throughout your home.

Home Accessories for the Living Room

Your living zones are extremely important rooms and usually serve a dual function – relaxation or entertainment. Your living room is one of the rooms that is most on display when guest come to visit so you want to ensure that the entire space is attractive, elegant and warmly inviting. A series of vibrant and beautiful designer cushions can be a highly effective decorating tool. A rug is a great soft furnishing accessory that can create powerful visual appeal and convey a sense of comfort and luxury. Vases throughout your lounge room are a must so that you can fill your living room with fragrant flowers. Another important accessory is pictures and picture frames. Placing some lovely black and white shots of your family in contemporary or traditional frames can work well.

Home Accessories for the Kitchen

The kitchen is truly the heart and soul of the home. Kitchen accessories should be highly functional and attractive. Here are some examples:

Lovely Glassware – a selection of wine, champagne and perhaps cocktail glasses is a requirement for entertaining. You can place glassware artfully around the kitchen to create a dramatic and beautiful effect.

Cooking Accessories – Toasters, Rice Cookers, Coffee Machines and Knife sets, finished in attractive stainless steel or chrome look great and can modernize and instantly lift the appearance of even the oldest kitchen.

Textiles – You can soften the hard and industrial edges of your kitchen with lovely tea towels, a pretty apron and oven mitts. Choosing this textile items in vivid and bright colours can create interest and vibrancy in the kitchen.

Home Accessories for the Dining Room

Some great dining room accessories include linen or silk table runners, wrought iron candleholders and a lovely ceramic vase to create a striking centerpiece for your table to fill with flowers. Every dining room needs candelabra or shaded lamp to create an intimate lighting and a convivial dining atmosphere.

Home Accessories for the Bedroom

Keeping your bedroom free from clutter will help ensure that it remains a relaxing and restful zone. A few silk or fur covered cushions, a nice rug, some lamps and some paintings and a lovely bedspread are the perfect home accessories for your bedroom.
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Home Decorating Ideas : How to Decorate a Hallway

Decorate a hallway by adding lights, bright paint colors and a runner to lighten up the space. Have fun designing the hallway and avoid cramming unnecessary items into the area with tips from a professional decorator in this free video on home decorating. Expert: Ann Myrick Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner. Filmmaker: Tim Brown
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How to Create a Cottage Kitchen Design



The cottage style of kitchen design in characterized as a colorful, comfortable feel that is created by painted or decorated furniture, baskets, beadboard walls and natural fiber rugs, and weathered surface finishes, as well as colors one would expect to find in a garden.

Cottage-style kitchen can have many accessories, but it is necessary to avoid going overboard to keep the clutter from becoming distracting. The cottage-style of kitchen design is also known for floors that are bare with the exception of an occasional throw rug.

The cottage style of kitchen design conjures up images of a room light and airy, charming and casual. The breezy, uncomplicated feel one finds in a summer cottage. Cottages evoke seaside vacations, a countryside locale, or a cabin in the mountains. The mood is always relaxed, unassuming, and casual. Simplification is the prominent feature of the cottage style of kitchen design.

Due to the fact that cottage style kitchens are small they usually have a floor plan that is fresh and open, that can function easily, as well as be a place to entertain.

To be able to create the cottage feel for you kitchen you need to look at accessories such as house wares, linens, and furnishings you will choose for your kitchen. Some examples are the use of white distressed, stained and butcher-block surfaces around the kitchen, striped vintage towels and dishcloths, an old antique kitchen clock, or displaying plates on open shelves above a window or doorway. Other accessories might include stoneware pots, glazed earthenware and glass jars. Also you could place a pitcher of fresh-cut flowers to create more cottage charm.

It takes time to create a cottage style for your kitchen. You can not simply find the cottage style all at one time and in one store. The kitchen must look as if it slowly took on this look over a period of time to achieve a more collected look.

Furnishings in a cottage style kitchen can include furniture made from pine, or maple. Furniture detailing is an important element of the cottage style. Furniture can be white painted, or lacquered, can include also such features as curved legs on base cabinetry, and old fashioned moldings around cabinets and tables. Or a large work table that can also be a dining space for the family. Pieces can include a farmhouse style kitchen table with beech spindle style chairs.

A cottage style kitchen range can be used, with a decorative wooden range hood, as well as a large single bowl ceramic sink, or a apron front farm sink.

Knobs figure prominently as the dominant hardware of choice for cottage-style kitchen design. Design elements include porcelain and embossed stoneware, semi-glossy periwinkle blues, creams and whites work well. Also check for woven designs using wire or bamboo.
Paint can be used to create a cottage-style kitchen design. The wood flooring can be painted a bold color. Walls can be painted with warm yellows or blues that can be coordinated with the tones and colors of the kitchen cabinets, wall tile, window treatments and other accents in the kitchen.
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What kind of flower is this?

I saw this in an old issue of Better Homes & Gardens while waiting for the doctor. The best way that I can describe it, is that it looked like a brown stick that branched out and grew very small, yellow flowers. I thought it was beautiful, and I want to have it painted in my room, but I need to find a picture of it in order to do so. If it helps at all, a common theme in this room was Asian decor and Asian flowers. Please help! Thanks so much.
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