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What would you spend your £50 on from The Victorian Emporium?

Win a £50 voucher from The Victorian Emporium

We’re thrilled to be working with The Victorian Emporium this month. They’re giving one of our readers a £50 voucher to spend in their store.

Victorian style lighting accessories from The Victorian Emporium

If you live in a Victorian house, or have done up your home in a Victorian period style, this is the competition for you! The Victorian Emporium has a huge range of decorative homeware items to adorn your abode – both indoors and out. They specialise in supplying fixtures & fittings to help restore homes to their period best. Their website even provides handy tips, guides and advice; such as how to research the history of your house, choosing period colour schemes and decorating your Victorian home at Christmas.

Victorian style door furniture from The Victorian Emporium

Choose from door furniture to curtain tiebacks, lighting to bathroom accessories. There are bound to be things in their collection that catch your eye.

Antique style curtain tie backs from The Victorian Emporium

To take part, go check out The Victorian Emporium shop and return here to tell us what you’d spend your £50 voucher on if you won. This month’s competition is open to all our followers around the world!

£50 voucher from The Victorian Emporium

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Victorian Fireplaces Infographic

Victorian living room with blue painted walls and period Victoria fireplacecredit

Victorian homes often contain period features, such as ceiling roses and plaster mouldings, tiled floors, and antique fireplaces. A Victorian house has the potential to be a beautiful family home when restored to its former glory. However, if you’re planning a restoration project, it is worth spending some time researching the Victorian era. That way, you can source authentic design features rather than resorting to reproduction imitations.

The fireplace is an excellent place to start if you’re renovating a Victorian period property. Fireplaces from the period were rather eclectic in design. They tended to incorporate both classical and naturalistic elements and unlike fireplaces from the regency era, Victorian fireplaces had generous mantels to accommodate the fashion of the time for displaying numerous ornaments.

If you would like to learn more about the history of fireplace design, check out the infographic below. It’s a great resource for anyone interested in renovating a period property.

Fireplace history infographic

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