VICTORIAN INTERIORS AND MORE

This site was put together from notes and pictures I had saved from the many books I’d read over the years. As a favor to members of sever...

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy , by Catherine Esther Beecher, 1845 To do laundry you needed plenty of water. If your water was hard, ...

It's getting to be that time of year. Chillier weather approaches, especially here in New England, and it seems the perfect time to repr...

Some time ago I found a site that listed personal belongings of some early 19th century Virginians as culled from wills or other legal docum...

This book, by Catharine E.Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe included a chapter about the ideal home, one which I've always found interes...

The first illustration shows how carpet or matting was put down without sewing the pieces together. Recall that in 1870 even even if carpets...

Also from How to Build Furnish and Decorate ... In portieres, change the color for each opening, even if in the same room, unless an entire ...