Occasionally in Toronto, one can find an original Queen Anne Style window in a Bay and Gable, or other Victorian, styled home. Apparently, improved glass making in the 1880s meant that designers could build larger windows with fewer small mullioned panes, however, mullions were still appreciated for their aesthetics.
Queen Anne window style, the result of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Victorian’
Stained Glass Queen Anne, or “Cottage” Style Windows
Posted in Victorian Millwork, tagged Antique Hardware, Bay-and-Gable, Glazing, Millwork, Queen Anne, Victorian, Window casings on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Wondering What Your House Should Look Like? “Put Down the Big Box Plastic Fense… “
Posted in Toronto's Bay-and-Gable Victorian Style, tagged Bay-and-Gable, Gothic, Mission Style, Queen Anne, Toronto, Victorian on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Cabbagetown Historical Preservation Association takes the preservation of Toronto’s Victorian housing seriously and with good reason – Cabbagetown is the largest stretch of Victorian housing in North America. On their homepage they have made available the resource, “What Style is My House” which is good reading for anyone who can’t identify the historic home [...]
West Toronto Junction Home Tour
Posted in Neighbourhood House Tours, tagged Bay-and-Gable, Edwardian, Old house, Toronto, Victorian, West Toronto Junction on April 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
West Toronto Junction, or just “The Junction“, is unique in stade Toronto “The Good”. The Junction, named for the crossing of the Canadian National (CNR) and the Canadian Pacific (CPR) railways, was a booming prosperous late 1890s town with businesses breaking the bulk of the railway, lumber yards, stock yards, a flour mill, a foundry, [...]
Victorian Trompe l’oeil Wood Graining
Posted in Victorian Millwork, tagged antique doors, Faux Finish, Millwork, Paint stripping, preservation, restoration, Trompe l'oeil, Victorian on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Victorians were fond of making the ordinary appear extraordinary, especially when the extraordinary exceeded one’s reach.
Faux finishes are not limited to late 1980s interior decor or to low budget “trading rooms” television programming. The Victorians were fond of making the ordinary appear extraordinary, especially when the extraordinary exceeded one’s reach. I found some original Victorian wood graining under layers of [...]
Installing an Antique Mortise Lock
Posted in Antique House Hardware, tagged Antique door knobs, antique doors, Antique Hardware, Bronze, Corbin hardware, Door furniture, Eastlake, Escutcheon, Mortise Lock, Old house, Skeleton key, Victorian on January 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I caught a bit of luck in that the POs (Previous Owners) did not remove the antique pine front door and replace it with a Big Box pre-hung door. Of course the door was layered in paint and the original antique mortise lock was replaced with a typical off-the shelf lock for a bored-door. This [...]
Late 1880s Victorian Millwork
Posted in Victorian Millwork, tagged antique doors, Architrave, Baluster, Bannister, Baseboards, Bay-and-Gable, Corner blocks, Eastlake, High Victorian, Historic millwork, industrialism, late 1800s, Mahogany, Millwork, Oak, Painted oak graining, Pine, Private rooms, Public rooms, Queen Anne, Railway, Victorian, West Toronto Junction, Window casings, Wood moldings, wood moulding on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Industrialism resulted in the wide availability of architectural millwork that was once only available to wealthy clients building the best of homes. Late Victorian or “High Victorian” millwork was the most elaborate and suited popular Victorian revival styles of the time including Queen Anne and Eastlake. Hull (2003) refers to the period 1890-1910 as the [...]
Ugly Things Done to Old Houses or “Old House Atrocities”
Posted in Ugly Things Done to Old Houses, tagged Angelbrick, antique doors, Arts and Crafts, cheap paint, Edwardian, Mission Style, open space, Parged brick, popcorn ceiling, porch, stone cladding, Toronto, Victorian, vinyl siding, vinyl windows, wall-to-wall carpeting on December 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Take a walk in any urban neighbourhood and you are going to find old houses that have been “destroyed” in any number of ways. Here is my list of some of the worst offences, that is not meant to offend, but will. Feel free to disagree or add your own old house atrocity. This list, [...]
Finding and Restoring Antique House Hardware
Posted in Antique House Hardware, tagged Antique Hardware, Brass, Bronze, Cast Iron, Eastlake, Paint stripping, Refinishing, Victorian on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is always exciting finding old hardware in your house that has been forgotten under layers of paint. Intricate Victorian designs in cast iron, brass and bronze give a house an incredible sense of character and it takes very little effort to refinish these antique pieces of your home.
Paint strippers can be used to quickly [...]
Why Blog your House
Posted in House Virgin Hysterics, tagged Edwardian, Old house, Victorian on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing the style of the house and how to keep that character is not easy for someone making the transition from apartment or condo living.
Assuming they care, people with old houses are forced onto a learning curve that can be very confusing. It is easy to tell which neighbours care about getting an old house [...]
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