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oldfarmhouse · 4 months

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❄𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥

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#master bath #reveal #victorian restored #see notesfor bio

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hometoursandotherstuff · 5 months

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Nice restoration on this 1890 Italianate Victorian in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's white, but the restoration is very good, so it needs the new owners to put their own stamp on it. 4bds, 2.5ba, $525K.

The wood has been stripped, but they accented the posts in black and brightened the rest up with white.

I can't tell if they oiled the bare wood or put a satin finish on it, but I like it.

The sitting room has a wonderful original marble fireplace.

What were they thinking with that modern light fixture and modern furniture. Why do buyers feel that they have to make their beautiful historic Victorians look new?

Totally in love with the way they did this kitchen. No ugly new or 80s style cabinetry. How refreshing.

And, they left the ancient fireplace. Wish they didn't paint it white, so you could see the details of the old brick.

This is cool. They left the scullery untouched and didn't make it a home office or something.

And, there you see the original maids stairs going up to their quarters from the scullery.

Look at the sink in the guest powder room. What a beauty.

The primary bedroom is large and has another original marble fireplace, but unfortunately, they never put in a closet. I would have to get a carpenter to come in and design one against this back wall.

Small bath with modern tile, vintage tub & sink.

If this became a child's room that mantle would look adorable painted in pastel colors.

Look at the fireplace in this room. Beautiful.

This bedroom is huge and has an en-suite.

It was renovated with a modern shower, but the light and mirror look original.

The basement isn't finished, but they brightened it up with white paint. Look at the old foundation. And, there's a vintage sink.

It's not bad.

Looks like they watch TV and exercise down here.

They have a patio and fenced in yard in the back.

I wonder if that was an extension they build on the original home. I would buy this house, it's cool.

Looks like a nice neighborhood, but it's on a service road. That wouldn't bother me.

#italianate victorian #restored victorian #old house dreams #houses #house tours #home tour

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burningvelvet · 3 months

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So anyway I've been reading about Restoration era writers & also learned that in Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester may have been partly inspired by the Restoration era poet John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, rambunctious sex legend & asshole extraordinaire. I totally support this theory & may include a reference to it in my Jane Eyre fic if I ever update it.

Interesting finds from John Wilmot and Mr. Rochester by Murray G. H. Pittock:

"Mr. Rochester is to an as yet unappreciated degree based upon the character and reputation of his namesake, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, whose career as it was popularly recorded is the model for the rakehell and penitent phases underlying the development of Mr. Rochester's character." (P 462)

"the Earl's mother 'was a daughter of Sir John St. John, an ancient family of Wiltshire.' The coincidence of the name with that of the alter hero of Jane Eyre is of course striking. This tract also contains an extended passage concerning Wilmot's propensity for disguise, a common feature of the religious Lives." (P 464)

"In both the real man and the fictional character, cynicism and misanthropy turn to faith. As early as Etherege, then, John Wilmot had become a literary archetype, the "devil-angel" of the wicked rake. But he was also, in the alternative tradition of the religious tracts, an archetype of the repentant sinner. Wilmot's pious end made him respectable, and he was in every sense an ideal figure on which to model his fictional namesake." (P 469)

"It is Mr. Rochester who characteristically uses Christian imagery to describe erotic feelings [..]" (P 462)

"Mr. Rochester associates himself with the devil. Quoting from Paradise Lost, he asks Jane 'not to attribute to me any such bad eminence' (p. 166)." (P 463)

i didn't know this but i mention paradise lost in my fic! even tho in her novel shirley, charlotte disses milton's depiction of eve (which i 100% agree with; my last semester i took an english renaissance class wherein i wrote about paradise lost & eve's oppression lol). heathcliff is also miltonian as i acknowledged in a prior post!!!

"Such talk of heaven and hell in the interests of passion are echoes in fact of Mr. Rochester's famous namesake." (P 463)

"The material that Bronte would use in creating the hero of Jane Eyre from his namesake was freely available at the time, and not only through the means of pious hearsay. Burnet's own account is based on interviews with the dying Earl, and because Wilmot's death was finally a pious one, the less risqué of his poems were often found in print. So thoroughly was Wilmot's profligate life associated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with his deathbed conversion, that it comes as no surprise to find his poems published in 1821 alongside those of Dr. Spratt, the Bishop of Rochester, in a one-volume collection enticingly titled The Cabinet of Love? Moreover, Burnet's Life was long popular, as its several editions testify, even in the "best" literary circles. Both Horace Walpole and Samuel Johnson wrote critiques which were incorporated into the edition issued in 1820. Such widely disseminated tales of reformed rakes and deathbed conversions were an important part of the literary culture of Brontes youth, reinforced by the Methodism introduced into the family circle by Aunt Branwell. It was not at all unusual, then, that Bronte should turn to John Wilmot in creating her own Mr. Rochester." (P 464)

"Passion untamed by religion until the moment of crisis is a mark of Charlotte Brontes fiction, and to make that mark, who better than a famous rake and a famous convert, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester?" (P 469)

From John Wilmot, Mr Rochester and William Harrison Ainsworth by Robert Dingley:

"it is also possible that she drew hints from the Earl's depiction in William Harrison Ainsworth's bestselling novel Old St. Paul's (1841), where the Restoration rake displays a chameleon-like facility in disguise and twice attempts to entrap the woman by whom he is obsessed (and who in turn loves him) in spurious wedding ceremonies."

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countess--olenska · 11 months

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Saigo Tsugumichi with foreign friends - Felice Beato seated in front with him

#historical fashion #Saigo Tsugumichi #felice beato #1860s #19th century #victorian #meiji era #meiji restoration

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vox-anglosphere · 3 months

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The restoration of Burne-Jones stained glass in Salisbury Cathedral

#Edward Burne-Jones #Salisbury Cathedral #stained glass #UK #Gothic arches #Victorian art #restoration #Windows to the Soul #sacred space #William Morris #pre-Raphaelite #workmanship

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inthedarktrees · 2 years

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Henry Peach Robinson, Fear, ca. 1860

#19th century #1800s #victorian #vintage #henry peach robinson #fear #photo restoration #sepia #sepiatone #photography #black and white #the metropolitan museum of art #2005.100.1132

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roach-the-villain · 11 months

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I made social media accounts for sharing my journey fixing up an old Victorian house I bought for $100

If anyone would like to help fund this restoration project or if you could share this and get it out there I’d appreciate it.

This house is about 170 years old give or take a decade, truthfully it’s estimated to have been built between the 1830’s-1850’s. I want to see her make it to see 200 and many more years to come.

Historical homes and architecture; the restoration and preservation of historical homes are some of my passions. Historic homes being a particular special interest. This is my lifelong dream.

All donations will go towards the restoration and preservation of this beautiful historic Victorian home. The roof and foundation need repaired and the electrical needs to be updated (it’s still on knob and tube!). Anything extra will go toward redoing the bathrooms and kitchen which were already gutted before I purchased this house, as well as rebuilding the collapsed back porch. The back porch hasn’t collapsed because of any structural or foundational issues (all foundation issues are in the front corner of the house exclusively), it’s just collapsed due to wood rot.

Here are the links for anyone interested in following this journey.

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vanishingsydney · 2 years

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Original cast iron & timber shop-top balcony, dated 1884. Now subdivided into two apartments. Overlooks a busy six-lane highway. Leichhardt.

#vintage #late 19th century #1880's balcony #cast iron #facade #streetscape #it's a sign #apartments #original #late victorian era architecture #restored #inner west sydney

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ravenz-den · 6 months

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i drive past abandoned houses out in the country everyday on my route and i like to imagine the life i could have there.

#i usually restore it with lots of color and plants and a lush garden #dream house is victorian that i would paint purple #alternative #gothic #midwest emo #midwest gothic

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merakiui · 1 year

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Doctor Riddle? What if it turns to something like in "The Bride of Necro"? It's a vocaloid song, you should check it out, the visuals are so pretty and the story's pretty interesting too, albeit straightforward.

I know of it! It's a very haunting song that is said to have been inspired by the true story of Georg Carl Tänzler, a radiology technologist who developed a very sick obsession with one of his patients. Even after her death, he continued to obsess over her, to the point of keeping her body for himself and, for lack of a better word, rebuilding it as parts decayed and mottled.

I imagine Victorian Doctor Riddle would reconstruct his fallen darling using magic and science (in a Frankenstein-esque manner) by using various parts of magical creatures in hopes that that might make you less prone to the brutalities of time (perhaps it is believed that the heart of a mer or a fairy or other being with lots of potent magic is stronger than that of a human's and will therefore bring about immortality). Though he manages to get his darling back, there is a heavy price to be paid for reanimation. But Riddle is so obsessed with the idea of having full control and ownership of you because you so callously broke his rules and thought that death would separate the two of you. You were sorely mistaken because Riddle will gladly disturb the soil of the dead if it means he can bring you back so that he will no longer feel so lonesome. You were the only one who understood him, after all, even if you died loathing him. But now you will wake appreciating his efforts because it is he who saved you from the clutches of Death.

#twisted chit chat #i need to pen some thoughts with victorian era riddle because i think he'd be insane <3 #victorian gentleman jade but it's like the story of hyouhon shoujo #or victorian azul in the plot of château cépage no higeki #or a storyline like in 'the last supper' where len is gravely ill #and so gakupo and kaito try to feed him different foods to restore his health and end up sacrificing themselves as len's last supper #thinking about that but darling takes len's place and the tweels take the place of kaito and gakupo #omg or riddle and azul!!!!!#omg or the twst characters in the story of capriccio farce!!!!#azul is 100% the master of the graveyard alongside the tweels

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oldfarmhouse · 4 months

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𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/thevictorianfarmhouse

❄🤍🖤𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥

𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/thevictorianfarmhouse

#victorian restored #winter snow #victorian #restored #winter scenery #see notes for bio

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hometoursandotherstuff · 3 months

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Yesterday I posted the devastating renovation/restoration of this 1892 Victorian in Goshen, New York. Well, thanks to ephraelinhats who found the original photos of what it looked like before. They definitely could've salvaged some of the original elements. Look at this comparision:

They chose to lose the main entrance hall altogether, so it's not even shown on the listing. Definitely could've been restored, though. They made so many square angular rooms, now.

Some of the stair railing is gone, but the stairs could've been restored and the curving walls, too. Looks like the upper railings are still there.

Definitely a lot of it left. Looks like someone started to restore it, but they opened the 3rd floor up.

Okay, I see what they did here- a previous owner put the window in. But, did they have to square off the alcove?

The kitchen must've been around here, b/c those are the service stairs.

The kitchen now.

This must've been the dining room. That wainscoting could've been restored. Look at the crown molding and a niche above the fireplace, not a window, and if it was, it may have been stained glass.

Well, it's all gone and this is now the dining room.

They didn't need to get rid of the crown molding.

There was plenty of crown molding that could've been saved.

Don't know where this room is, but it had beautiful wood that could've been saved.

One of the bedrooms had a cute fireplace.

The previous owner did some funky stuff to this bedroom. But, at least they kept the fireplace.

There are doors w/original ceramic knobs. Could've been salvaged.

If they did this much demo anyway, they could've done it differently.

I see what they did here w/the porches, but someone had painted the back part white. Looks like they sandblasted the brick. I wish they would've taken that much care to restore the interior.

#before & after comparison #victorian restoration #real estate #house flipping #houses #house tours #home tour

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aherdofbees · 2 years

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#hamish linklater #give me a scruffy mess of a man whos good with his hands #maybe hes restoring the old victorian next door #maybe he has too many dogs #maybe he [redacts] you in the back of an old rusty pickup truck #whos to say #illustration

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expatesque · 1 year

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Sad today. I think I'll buy some shoes. Also, longer term, a house.

#turns out i can afford what i want at the end of this year #which is kind of mind boggling #i can buy a totally fine 2 bed in my area of choice #but i think instead I'll buy a batshit falling apart three bed house with a garden one neighborhood up #ideally one a grandma has lived in for 50 years and never renovated #thats the dream #(my family restores victorian houses for fun. i love a project)

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someoneblewafuse · 5 months

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Victorian Sewing Machine update:

I've attatched the belt and after a considerable ammount of time spent fine-tuning the belt length it can now run at it's proper speed without any belt slippage

Next I will do a complete once-over to ensure that it's operating correctly, oiling everthing that needs it, then trying to remove the rust from several parts that have become tarnished with time. After this I'll might either turn my attention to my first project with it, or to it's cabinet to repair that instead!

#sewing machine #victorian #restoration

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1dontc4re · 1 year

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played lurking for love and i really liked the demo! The whole time i couldn’t stop thinking ‘damn Jacob would get along really well with my dad lmaooo’. I can totally picture them talking about fishing and fish keeping. My dad used to keep fish tanks a long time ago but had to get rid of them when my little brothers were born. I imagine they would nerd the fuck out over Jacob’s pet fish, with me as the interpreter.

Anyway im absolutely using this as lore for my self insert oc

#lurking for love #jacob alden #i and kept thinking and hed get along with my mum too cause she’s into restoration and she’d take an interest in his antique cameras #she planning to restore a victorian sewing machine #what im saying is jacob should marry me we’re the perfect family for him jk #unless it’s one of those situations were we break up but he can’t bring himself to kill me because he likes my parents too much #we break up and months later he’s still emailing my dad about fish and stuff #would i have immunity at this point or is killing me still fair game? 🤔🤔 much to think about #anyway i love jacob and his autistic rizz

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