While beginning the pre-production process for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” production designer Tamara Deverell began ...

With the development around 1840 of chromolithography, the process of printing in colors, the ephemera of everyday Victorian life took on a vibrant new appeal. Calling cards, valentines, advertising ...

LOCAL ARTIST Charles Beck is featured in the August edition of Victorian Homes, available on newsstands. Beck, a Mount Airy resident who has been commissioned to paint home portraits locally and ...

The term “painted ladies” might seem to mean something disreputable at first glance, but it is definitely not off-color when it refers to Victorian housing. Painted Ladies is the title of a 1978 book ...

What could be more romantic than a Victorian cottage garden, picturesque with poppies, cornflowers, wild roses and drifts of bluebells? For scores of late 19th Century English watercolorists, the ...

Thanks to their elaborate ornamentation, Victorians are far from cookie-cutter, and this one makes its commanding presence known with archways and stained-glass windows. It’s this way from the get-go.

Some of the bathroom's features and finishes were also problematic. "The materials, including the stone countertop, were ...

Brittney Hejda played it safe for 10 years. She stuck to mostly neutrals and mainstream decor as she and her husband, Josef, moved around the country for his military career. Then she realized how ...