I need some good descriptions of a Victorian room?

Question by (¯`v´¯)????Eva????(¯`v´¯): I need some good descriptions of a Victorian room?
I am writing a story and my character is currently in a victorian room, which is on the high floor of a castle.

I need some good descriptions to describe the room. Like how it smells, how it feels, how it looks like, etc. Basically using the 5 senses. I want my reader to visualize the room in their head and have some sense of what the room is like.

Thank you so much! :)

Best answer:

Answer by Sam
The Victorian era was the latter part of the 1800s and a bit into the early 1900s.
Ceilings in Victorian homes varied from 10 to 12 feet in hight, whereas the average home of today is 8 feet. The windows all had wood trim and were quite tall, and all had drapes that you could close off the window with. They were commony “sash” windows which mean those you pull up from the bottom to open. In the main rooms, such as the living room, dining room and parlor, often had a fireplace because central heating had not been invented yet. The mantles in the dining and living rooms tended to be very ornate with little shelves backed by bevel-edged mirrors. The shelves were filled with litle knick-nacks, usually small statues, or glass trinkets that relected the owners hobby.
Most of the homes had hardwood floors throughout covered with ornate area rugs.

Most of the wood work was varnished natural wood, around windows, decorative panneled doors with ornate brass or glass door handles, some of which could be locked by a skeleton key. Where the floor met the cieling was often covered with wood coving, and somtimes there was a wood trim on the walls like in the living room, or dining room called wainscoat – it was a decorative wood paneling that went from the floor up ta about 40 inches or so.

In general Victorian rooms are characterized by having just a bit too much furniture, littel tables, stools, chairs and pictures and shelves on the walls contining china and other nick-nacks, the tables all had lace table cloths, and both table lamps and floor lamps had very ornate basses, often suggesting an oriental design, and they had large silk lampshades that were that had fringe around the bases of the lamp shade. Some lamps wereTiffany lamps with shades made of leaded multicolered glass that had ornate designs some from nature others just symetrical.

The furniture could have been anything like French Provincial, Ealy American or others, but chairs and couches were trimmed with wood and had ornatle carved feet and arm rests. The fabric too was quite varied and tended to be shaped mowhair.

You could hear the creackle of the fire and smell the traces of burning pine. Some homes had electricity, and the light switdh was set in the wall in a brass plate, one round button above the other, the top button was inset with a piece of ivory or bone to indicate the button you pushed to turn on a light. Some homes did not have electricity, but uses gas lamps with glass shades and a key sticking out of the side to turn the gas up or off–these were a bit dimmer than electric lights and had to be turned off when not in use – they were a fire hazard.

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