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House Interior Design Styles of the Tudor and Jacobean Periods
Posted by admin in House Design, Interior Design on May 19, 2011
Whitewashed plaster between wooden structural beams was the most common wall finish of Tudor living room designs – or any room for that matter. Timber paneling of oak was also a strongly featured interior design style in the houses of wealthier people. This would have been in a lighter tone of wood than we might expect, the darkening with which we are familiar having occurred through age or staining. Other cheaper woods were also used and these were often painted in colors or finished to imitate finer woods or other rich materials.
The most commonly seen division of panels was in squares or rectangles. Additional decoration might also be applied in the form of painting or carving (especially in the popular linen fold design). Later in the period the joins of panel sections were often concealed behind carved pilasters. Wall-papers, made in panels for adhering to fabric before being attached to walls, were produced during the sixteenth century, but these were only to be seen in a minority of houses.
Ceilings in the larger houses, later on, tended to be highly decorated with plaster-work, the designs for which were often geometric in nature. Heraldic and floral motifs featured and strap-work was often to be seen. Read the rest of this entry »
The White House Interior Design
Posted by admin in House Design, Interior Design on May 19, 2011
There is a lot of mystery surrounding the interior design of the White House. Many articles have been written in relation to this subject but no one really knows the aspect of the hundreds of rooms belonging to the Presidential house, except for the members of the first family and the national security agents.
The interior design of the White House is subject to constant modifications as each President tries to bring an improvement to the decoration. Nevertheless, it is only the private area of the house, that is, the rooms on the top two floors that can be freely decorated. The rooms where political affairs are usually discussed occupy the ground and the first floor and they preserve the historical aspect that was created by the first Presidents of the United States.
Visitors are not allowed to enter the private section, whereas the famous Oval room, Blue room and other similar chambers are often displayed to the entire public, especially during televised transmissions. Despite the different styles of the offices, the elements of the luxuriously aristocratic style seem to prevail throughout the entire house.
Royal chandeliers, natural fabrics and Oriental or Persian rugs are the elements that may be found in the decoration of every White House room. Since changes rarely occur in the public part of the house, many furniture pieces have been preserved since the beginnings of the White House, thus there are many interior ornaments and furnishings belonging to the Victorian age. Read the rest of this entry »