Original Victorian Bathrooms

Hardware in victorian bathrooms tends to be brass or gilt metal.

Original victorian bathrooms.

Discover inspiration for your victorian bathroom remodel including colors storage layouts and organization. This is a small white victorian bathroom that features an original claw foot tub and kohler sinks. The bathroom contains a small glass shelf just above the sink and a cute round mirror. I m going to dream a lot.

It often features ornate carved designs of scrolls flora and fauna. As i said in part one creating. An original turn of the century craftsman home had lost it original charm in the kitchen and bathroom both renovated in the 1980s. Antique dealers and salvage locations may have many styles to choose from.

So many intact victorian bathrooms have stained glass windows often really beautiful and intricate ones for privacy. The ceiling was plastered as well. If the bathroom did not have tile from ceiling to floor the walls were usually painted or wallpapered above the chair rail. Cast iron roll top bath edges could be anything between four and seven inches wide and all old baths of whatever style were made of cast iron and vitreous enamelled at a temperature of more than 800 degrees centigrade.

The original baths sell for thousands of pounds and are as popular now as when they were first developed between 1850 1900. The victorians were hyper sensitive about privacy. You ll find victorian pedestal sinks in round and square styles both as reproductions and in their original state secondhand. The flooring is made of tile and a mixture of other types.