From cramped coach house to family home – how clever design transformed this tiny space

Bold interior choices allowed these first-time buyers to utilise every square inch of this 19th-century building to create something special ...
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Domestic Interior Paintings Show How the 1% Lived in the 19th Century

Rudolf von Alt, “The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Heitzing, Vienna” (1855) (all photos by Matt Flynn, courtesy Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) “The paintings were usually made after a room ...
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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection

This exhibition showcases the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw's collection of 19th-century watercolor drawings that meticulously detail the era's interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, ...
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A Fiber-Cement Structure Forms the Interiors of This 19th-Century Czech Cottage

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was "literally screwed into the building" to create bedrooms, storage, and a secret second kitchen. Houses We Love: Every day ...
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How Brooklynites of the Past Decorated Their Houses

Brooklynites across the centuries have filled their homes with the architectural trends and styles of the time. Whether part of the original design or a later remodeling to keep up with the current ...
Brownstoner

A Brief History of Decorative Painting in Brooklyn and Beyond

When the historic homes we live in and admire in Brooklyn today were spanking new, they were often enhanced with decorative painting. Special paint effects have a long history in the U.S., going back ...
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Domestic space : reading the nineteenth-century interior / edited by Inga Bryden and Janet Floyd

"This volume of essays grew out of an interdisciplinary, international conference ... held at King Alfred's College, Winchester [England], in April 1996"--Acknowledgments. Introduction / Inga Bryden & ...
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Krueck Sexton Partners reworks the interiors and roof of a trio of 19th-century Boston buildings

Chicago-based firm Krueck Sexton Partners (KSP) has designed social spaces for the tenants of 131 Oliver, an office building in Boston. (Anton Grassl) The three buildings—109 Purchase Street, 105 ...