The ORIGINAL Maximalist style: Victorian Interior Design Style 

The chair doilie is called an antimacassar and was primarily to protect the furniture from the hair oil "macassar" which was used by men throughout that period! Fascinating isn't it? 😁😁. Thanks for the video - I really enjoyed it.💕

This was the video I didn't know I needed. I've been playing around with mixing mid-century modern and traditional style. After watching this, I realized that I'm actually looking to mix mid-century and victorian!

LOVE the victorian style, I like patterns, bold colors and antiques so it' s perfect

My beautiful girl, I love the way your presentation. Any subjects you are going to deliver very important to us, because we are not usually learn in the life. And this is why we're confused, then it's come to change something in our living. Thank you for your kindness and time you put into this. God's blessings and the best wishes for your business.

Love your channel on design. 40 years old and finally purchased my first home. Never imagined this would be an interest of mine until now. I guess I am a maximalist! :D Proud to subscribe to your channel!

This video was very helpful to me! I want to go with Victorian decor but I think a person can get carried away and end up with a mess of conflicting colors, patterns and designs. I also didn’t want to be confined to the typical Tiffany lamps or traditional Victorian lamps. I love the exchange for older industrial / iron lighting. After some searching , I found feather lamps and rattan lamps that would fit really well in exchange for the Tiffany or fringe type lamps. But if all else fails, adding some palm and ferns is always a good start and add incrementally.

Outstanding episode, LOVE the historical context, perfect play of interest and inspiration. I hope a good portion of your videos include perspective analysis like this. Yes, I am subscribing, thank you very much. P.S. love the comments as well, great lovers of design and history here. Second postscript, my husband and I just bought our first home at 65, so the person who bought her first at age 40 is a spring chicken as we old timers like to say.

This is such a great video! Lots of great tips on finding the quality furniture :)

Enjoyed your video. Love all the details and photos you inserted. I love the modern Victoria maximalist look… my cup of tea for certain rooms especially the dining.

I think my style preference is Victorian-French. I like old world opulence.

Great design ideas. Coal makes soot and its dusty and black. My Grandma only had a coal fire, it was very dusty and especially bringing it from the coal shed at the back of the house.

Fantastic style. I think of the middle class CURIO CABINET as a symbol of the Victorian era. More people had more things and time for leisure and vacation. People would show off their wealth by showing off leisure time souvenirs, displaying wealth and sentimental richness. Gas lighting also left soot on walls making dark colors practical. May have also been practical for middle class clothing fashions. Heavy fabrics around windows were insulation for drafty windows. Swags, valances, fringe and excessive pattern and applied decorative layers was more display of wealth. Weaving of fabric, especially wool, linen and cotton was a major portion of British industrial expansion. So wool window coverings to insulate drafty windows does not surprise me. I almost never hear people talk about clothing fashions concurrently with interiors and architecture. For me, exaggeration is the one word that describes both. I think of exaggerated corset and bustle shapes as similar exaggerations of the camel-back curves on Victorian sofas. If you compare borrowed Victorian styles to the original styles, the Victorian exaggerated proportions, heaviness of mass and layers of detail. Compare to less massive classical styles, even Baroque and Paladin. Also industry prioritized mass production labor-minimization, speed and profit over thoughtful of aesthetician design. Following the 1851 Great Exhibition, the British government established a commissioned a study of British design. Subsequently examples contrasting bad and good design were displayed in the V&A Museum. Design leaders leaned into less detailed, simpler, more honest (less imitation and trompe l'oiel designs) and the Arts and Crafts movement began. Although William Morris patterns seem saturated, colorful and busy to us, his designs are flatter than the realism, detail, shading and perspective of earlier industrial design. Although actual Arts and Crafts goods were expensively handmade, the aesthetic was imitated by mass production industries. Doillies were pretty/lacy versions of furniture protectors. Hair oils, pomades and general wear would transfer to to the doilies that could be washed or replaced. I am wondering if parquet flooring was a way to utilize smaller pieces of wood at a time when the large oak planks were reserved for the British Royal Navy. I wonder if applied plaster design was also a method used because of scarcity and, therefore, expense of carved wood applications. I would really enjoy your perspective on the transition to BEAUX ARTS STYLE and how to insert contemporary style into a Beaux Arts architecture space or building.

You laughter when discovering you couldn’t see made me smile. BTDT!

Loved the realization you couldn’t see, your laughter made me smile.

Such an informative video. I appreciate the historical information. It helps me understand the origins of the style; and “get it” better when I see a complex room like this. I love the architectural details and some of the ornamentation. When mixed with a more contemporary elements it creates such a nice juxtaposition that it elevates both styles. It is also an interesting alternative to all the common, played out styles we see nowadays. Well done.

Thank you. This was well researched and informative! :)

Thank you so much. Your videos are always so informative. victorian style is definitely what I need in my life.

I'd love to see like global styles, like East Asian, Indian, Persian South African Moroccan, Brazilian, Mexican, Japanese, etc. It would be so cool😊

My grandmother's house was heated with coal. Each winter morning she'd go down to the basement and shovel coal into the furnace. When I saw the bottoms of my bare feet were filthy, I thought my grandmother just didn't have a clean house. Only later did I realize it was coal dust. Until your video, never thought about the fact that her furniture must have had the same dust on it.

Love this video and appreciate the color palates you displayed. A lot of historical design videos don’t do that

instant classic

Having lived in Victorian homes and done restoration, (not remodeling) I've gone down to the plaster to repair, I learned about color. I had an oak stairway that had a very dark rust tan, almost the same as the wood- and stencils.. after three or four layers of early mid 20th century wall papers that had been painted over (yes, even on the ceiling).. after getting to the bottom of it all I decided to repaint it the same as it originally was.. very stunning.. I sold the house 20 yrs ago.. the new owner put up some rather cliche "victorian" damask and acanthus leaf borders.. seven years of resto to perfection and someone covers it.. go figure..

I really did like this video- thank you! There are a few things you got wrong ( mostly pronunciations), yet you put forth some great points and helped me solidify my design thinking in my 1905 home! Dado is DA- dough. Cabriole leg is CAB-ree-ole. And there were a few others :)) Thanks for including photo example, too.

I loved Victorian as child. My dream is a Queen Anne Victorian. That’ll never happen. I have a brass and iron bed from the Victorian era. I’ve noticed over the years, the things I’ve purchased as from the later Victorian era. Maybe, I’m more of Victorian farmhouse kinda girl. Lol.

Tips - don’t use ring lights because they reflect in your glasses. - do use box lights facing away onto a wall so the light that reflects back on you is bright but soft. - don’t make apologies or excuses for informing people. - do edit out your excuses or mistakes. (I know it takes more effort and time but it will help grow your channel) Edit! You already know the importance of this. Find the important and/or fun facts and focus on those. As you know, less can be more. It’s not a lecture it’s a RU-vid. Wishing you all the best. ☺️

Look up the word "antimacassar" and learn why they were needed in Victorian homes.

A lot of those bold colors, especially in the wallpapers (think emerald green) were toxic! Thank goodness we can have the color today without the arsenic.

For Dark Academia vid.. Gentlemen’s Club. 😎

Love your videos! BTW, are you Canadian? I detect the accent...I'm in SW Ontario, Canada.

I stayed around.. you are cute.. thank you for the info

My house is a gothic revival Victorian

Finally found what my style is called 😜

Dark wire vintage glasses may be more complimentary to your lovely face

was there a reason for the transition to pastels? less smoke/soot later on? new colour technologies?

How much do you know about Marie Antoinette furniture or style?

Cabriolet legs ?

Anyone has an idea where would the hogwards, gryffindor style fit in to? 🤔

Doilies were on the chairs to protect the furniture from hair oil. Embroidery and crochet, various needle work is how women occupied their time. A gracious lady in that time period was busy with her hands but not “working”. Genteel ladies did needlework or art. Naturally, they had tons of needlework to display. It’s a dying art today which is sad because crocheted lace is incredibly beautiful.

To me in that dark Turq.room that modern light doesn't work. To me stick with the Victorian Style. Modern doesn't work. For me at least. I am Victorian and live in a town house .