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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Romance is in and Victorian design and architecture are as popular now as they were when Victorian was the contemporary style more than a hundred years ago. Often, people who buy a Victorian home have expertise in antiques of the era and can furnish a period living room or bedroom, but they are stymied when it comes to the kitchen and the bathroom. Victorian Kitchens and Baths solves this common dilemma by looking at the individual design, décor and architectural elements that make a room Victorian, offering a myriad of purist as well as interpretive ideas that can be used and adapted to fit many homes and tastes.
Victorian Kitchens & Baths is conveniently divided into four sections: Historic Victorian Kitchens and Baths, What Makes It Victorian, Borrowing Décor from the Parlor, and Contemporary Victorian Bathrooms and Kitchens. Focusing on historical and contemporary elements, Franklin and Esther Schmidt have created a book that appeals to serious aficionados and collectors of Victoriana as well as those who are simply interested in using certain Victorian-style elements in their contemporary homes. Full-color photography, sidebars from professionals, and decorating information accompany a huge range of projects and offer fresh information.
Product experts--and Victorian-era specialists--offer their unique perspectives, tips and ideas, including Erika Kotite, board member of the Victorian Society in America and editor of Victorian Homes magazine; Patty Poore, editor of Old House Interiors; and Florine McCain, editor of Victorian Decorating.
Franklin and Esther Schmidt are a photography, styling, and writing team who have photographed and written about hundreds of homes. Their articles and features have appeared in a variety of magazines, including Architectural Digest, Old House Interiors, Antiques & Fine Art, Country Home and Country Living. As field editors for Victorian Homes, Washington, D.C., correspondents for Art & Antiques, and antiques columnists for Country Accents, they have focused their work on interior design as it relates to architecture and lifestyle. Franklin and Esther are also the authors and photographers of Cabin Kitchens & Baths (Gibbs Smith, 2004). They live in Virginia.
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| | Product Details | | Hardcover: | 176 pages | | Publisher: | Gibbs Smith | | Publication Date: | April 11, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1586853023 | | Product Length: | 10.22 inches | | Product Width: | 10.08 inches | | Product Height: | 0.9 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.59 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.4 inches | | Package Width: | 10.2 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Victorian dream Apr 18, 2006
By BRYAN LACOUR
"BP LaCour"
This is a wonderful book for anyone dreaming of restoring a Victorian home. Lots of pictures but also well researched and interesting text. Helpful for those of us who do not want to model "mimic" our rooms after a specific photo spread in a book, but would like to understand, incorporate, and enjoy the historic details of our beautiful homes.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 aims high, falls short Mar 06, 2008
By Mari Morgan
Plenty of eye candy to drool over and a nice variety of photos from over-the-top high-end rooms to simple log cabins, especially for those who are more interested in "period inspired" than "period accurate". (For that, get Jane Powell's book "Bungalow Bathrooms".) However, it suffers in the editing department. The book is a conglomeration of short articles by a bunch of different authors rather than a single author's work. Typos and misused homonyms disrupted the flow of reading. Some factual errors were particularly irritating: for instance, "It marks a period of 'balloon construction', which implies that moldings and other architectural elements would no longer be molded into place individually or carved one by one. Rather they would come in strips and be shipped from factories in bulk." I'd like some of what that contributor was smoking, because it was apparently pretty good stuff - balloon construction referred to a specific style of FRAMING a house, it has nothing to do with the moldings. If you want information on the history of household sanitation and on residential construction of the Victorian era, read something else, this one's primarily for the pictures.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Wonderful Resource Feb 02, 2010
By A. Michel-Cox
This is the exact book I've been looking for. I recently bought a victorian house and want to bring it back to its original period, and this book has helped more than any other I've purchased. Many books tell the reader to "be creative", but I don't want to "be creative". I want to be accurate. I needed a detailed synopsis of what is really period and how the Victorians lived and used their kitchen/bathrooms. This book explained what furniture, accessories, finishes, and styles the Victorians actually used and why. And they talked about what Victorians DID NOT use and why. Very helpful.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great idea book Oct 19, 2010
By Mary
This book provided lots of photos of Victorian elements incorporated into today's homes. That's exactly what I was looking for.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
More kitchen than bath Jan 21, 2011
By LeAnne
I was surprised to discover that "Victorian Kitchens and Baths" is more a collection of articles from various experts than a treatise by the listed authors. Some of the articles were extremely helpful. Others were a bit redundant. The changing role of the kitchen through Victorian times was interesting. I guess it's hard to write much about the changing role of the bathroom, though. I do like this book; I'd just have liked it better if it had more details about bathroom fixtures, like embossed toilets and tubs. Guess that's why you go to more than one source for information. Oh, as for the resources listed in the back, don't expect all of them to be available still. The internet is a quickly changing place, after all.
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