Jo Leevers is the author of the bestselling Tell Me How This Ends, a Radio 2 Book Club pick, and The Last Time I Saw You, which Good Housekeeping calls 'a great book club read'. She's also the author of the interiors book Victorian Modern and writes about interior design for leading magazines and newspapers. Jo has two grown.
"Focuses on decorating in a modern, innovative, and functional Victorian way. The book includes many historical facts and explanations describing life in the Victorian era. With pictures and detailed notes, this title shares creative adaptations that employ a kaleidoscope of colors that one can pair with vintage and modern finds.".
Victorian Home Library Interior Design
Combining cultural context with advice and inspiration from the homes of interior designers, architects and stylists, Victorian Modern reveals how the history and design of 19th. The ultimate design bible for the Victorian home, placing period features and 19th-century design in context and exploring how today's designers are adapting these houses in innovative ways for contemporary lifestyles. Loved for their period character, Victorian homes aren't always suited to modern living.
The ultimate design bible for the Victorian home, placing period features and 19th-century design in context and exploring how today's designers are adapting these houses in innovative ways for contemporary lifestyles. Loved for their period character, Victorian homes aren't always suited to modern living. Victorian Modern is the ultimate design bible to help you make sense of those inherited quirks and features, showing how leading designers and creative homeowners are turning their own homes into contemporary showstoppers.
15 Key Elements of Modern Victorian Interior Design
The book comprises seven chapters, organized according to how we use our homes. With millions still living in Victorian homes, the subject of how to style and adapt nineteenth-century properties to modern lifestyles is always on trend. In spite of this, there are very few books available on the subject to date.
While Pinterest, Instagram, and magazines can offer flashes of inspiration to those looking to design their Victorian home, Victorian Modern provides in. Master Victorian interior design with our comprehensive guide. Expert tips, room-by-room advice, and modern adaptation strategies for timeless elegance.