This style has been engendered in England in the second half of the 19th century. Intensive industrial development, development of new British colonies promoted enrichment of some classes of society. Became fashionable to surround itself with magnificent home decoration, it was considered as indicator of the high status of the owner, its wealth. Development of navigation promoted in England to inflow of goods from China and India. Brought furniture, home decoration and jewelry for the house.
Therefore the Victorian style as any another, unites in itself(himself) stratifications of elements of gothic style, rococo, classics and exotic (Indian and Chinese styles). By and large, in the Victorian style the luxury which is combined with good taste is meant, and demonstration of respectability of the owner of the house has to have sense of proportion.
This style has number of distinctive features:
1. Introducing interior design of the Victorian style in the dwelling, at first it is worth picking up furniture. Its color will also become starting point for creation of all palette of rooms.2. Availability of direct and arc-shaped lines, with obligatory preservation of symmetric proportions, the vertical extended planes of elements of interior is inherent in style. This style wins in the presence of spacious rooms with high ceilings.
3. In the Victorian style elements dekonstruvizma-finishing of each room are pronounced it is carried out in some certain style (office – Gothic, the dining room – oriental, and sleeping boudoir – style of rococo).4. Finishing of interior – only from natural materials. From the best wood make window frames, parquet and doors (in them decorative elements from brass are possible). And at production of massive designs of furniture, valuable breeds of trees are used. In decor of sofas, dressers, chairs or chairs, padded stools the incrustation of legs is surely used by gilding and precious metals.5. Special requirements to textiles. The design in the Victorian style is based on use of quality fabrics for the curtains decorated with lambrequins, folds and brushes. It concerns also furniture upholstery. 6. Rather color gamma, can be pastel tone and color of saturated colors: Bordeaux, green, brown, pink and lilac. Not bad the fabric with motives of heraldry imitating brocade or with patterns of the vegetable and flower direction.7 looks. In this interior for arrangement of floor use impressive parquet, natural floor boards and ceramic floor tile with original ornament. The Victorian style welcomes use of quality natural carpets. 8. Finishing dwelling walls, provide two or three levels of decor various on color. Decorative volume elements – molding, eaves, friezes and pilasters are applied. Walls paint, upholster with fabric, sheathe panels from tree, paste over with wall-paper under fabric (images of forest flowers and berries, leaves, vertical strip with difficult ornament), it is desirable with the volume invoice.9. The dirtiness of interior antiques, the Indian caskets and elephants, the Chinese vases and scarecrows of animals is inherent in the Victorian style. It is important that it were not fakes, but originals. Creation of interior in this style and desire to save on arrangement of new design of the dwelling – are incompatible. But, having only provided all trifles, it will be possible to recreate the Victorian style – harmonious, respectable and saturated in the variety.