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what color should i paint my master bedroom?

Fire Places — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:01:28 +0000

we are having trouble deciding what color to paint our room!! it is in an old victorian house that has the original fireplace hearth in it, so we will not change that. and the tiles around the fireplace are mauve (ew.) the hallway is sage, one bedroom is gray, and another is yellow. so it cant be any of those colors. i might do my bathroom chocolate… so i dont think i would do that in the master either. what should i do?! what matches with mauve?
i will not paint it pink or red. it is pink now and it looks TERRIBLE with the mauve. i think red would look worse. Also, its me and my fiance…so it has to be for a guy and girl.
I dont want to do wall paper because these are 111 year old plaster walls (i live in a historic home). i am afraid the wall paper will ruin the walls if i ever want to take it down.

Is this house Victorian or Edwardian?

Fire Places — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:09:16 +0000

I’m talking about my grandma’s house. (I asked this question somewhere else and got 0 answers, so polls & surveys it the best for answers)
I think it’s late Victorian but my mum thinks it’s Edwardian.
Go to google earth and type in…
18 Hull Street, Richmond, Victoria.
The exact result is her house and look at the outside using the street view . Oh, yes, she’s moved out of the house and it’s empty now because it’s very, very, very sadly getting knocked down in two weeks.. . Stalk her all you want, you won’t find her!

Anyway, the front of the house is double fronted, door in the middle, two single sash windows to either side, a veranda, tin roof and decorative architraves around the door and windows. The original house was four rooms and a hallway, an outdoor kitchen, bathroom, laundry and toilet.

Walk through the front door, probably changed in the 60′s to a porthole door, into an hallway. In the middle of the hallway, there is a hallway arch which looks victorian to me, not the wooden edwardian kind, similar to this one…

http://www.gardeniahouse.com/p/arch.jpg

On the left, you enter through a four panelled door (two top panels longer than the bottom), like this one…

http://www.terracehousefactory.com.au/product_images/Door-Vic-Red-C_1475.jpg

…into the main bedroom, with single sash window, vented ceiling rose, like this one…

http://www.dunstoneplaster.com.au/PLASTER%20PRODUCTS/CEILING%20ROSES/CEILING%20ROSE%20660_PUB.jpg

…and you can see where the chimney breast used to be, but all of them in the house were taken out in the 60′s. It has no cornicing but has detailed skirting boards. Go back out of the hallway and turn right is another bedroom, same stuff, sash window, you can see where the chimney breast was, four panelled door and ceiling rose. Go down the hallway, turn left, another bedroom, sash window, four panelled door, old chimney breast, no cornicing and an un-vented ceiling rose. Turn back into the hallway and turn right into a living room, no cornicing, ceiling rose, no door, like the other rooms. Go back into the hallway and go to the end where an extension was added in the early 70′s. My mum told me the kitchen, bathroom, laundry and toilet were all outside, if that helps. Then the extension connected the bathroom and kitchen to the main house.

Nothing great about the extension, just a long room. Then there’s the kitchen, which has a low ceiling height, and the bathroom which which is even shorter than the kitchen. Then outside, is the laundry which has an edwardian looking door and an old fireplace. There is the outside toilet which is just a toilet and a door made out of a few boards and nails.

The whole house is built out of brick but has weatherboard at the front. It looks very similar to this house…

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-ho…

but with no cast iron.

So what do you think?

what color do you think would go with mauve fireplace tiles?

Fire Places — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:17:03 +0000

We just bought an old victorian home, and there is a fireplace in the master bedroom. the original hearth is still on it, and the tiles on the surround are a mauve color. i dont know what color to paint the walls!! i dont like tan or off white, and the walls are pink now and it looks gross. it cant be yellow because room accross the hall is yellow, and i dont want them both to be. gray is a possibility, but then what would i do for curtains and the bed spread?

help!!
the hallway is painted sage, so i dont want that on the bedroom wall i dont think

I need help finding a modern art painting maybe by Dali?

Fire Places — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:01:39 +0000

So obviously the painting I remember is modern.
to describe it there is a fire place in a room which one wall is is gone and shows sunlight and a person who torso seems to blend in with the floor? on the other side of the fireplace there is a hallway with a door open and water is flooding through it.. its weird i know.. but thats all I remember

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