Original Victorian Bathrooms

The victorians were hyper sensitive about privacy.

Original victorian bathrooms.

As i said in part one creating. The original baths sell for thousands of pounds and are as popular now as when they were first developed between 1850 1900. The clients desired to restore the original. You ll find victorian pedestal sinks in round and square styles both as reproductions and in their original state secondhand.

Browse victorian bathroom designs and decorating ideas. This is a small white victorian bathroom that features an original claw foot tub and kohler sinks. 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. If the bathroom did not have tile from ceiling to floor the walls were usually painted or wallpapered above the chair rail.

The flooring is made of tile and a mixture of other types. Hardware in victorian bathrooms tends to be brass or gilt metal. I m going to dream a lot. Part two of my love affair with bathrooms in the victorian house book by robert guild he starts the chapter on bathrooms by saying to create a modern version of the victorian bathroom we have to dream a little or a lot.

The bathroom contains a small glass shelf just above the sink and a cute round mirror. Antique dealers and salvage locations may have many styles to choose from. It often features ornate carved designs of scrolls flora and fauna. So many intact victorian bathrooms have stained glass windows often really beautiful and intricate ones for privacy.