Victorian Homes Reddit

r/VictorianHouses: This is a subreddit devoted to the love of Victorian houses. We love Victorian homes and are building new. We had a Victorian-like house designed by an architect, with modern touches like bigger rooms and a usable finished basement.

We are also doing stained wood moulding throughout. It takes finding the right builder and more money than I would like, but it's coming on beautifully. Old victorian homes have a lot of wood craftsmanship that wouldn't be cheap to replicate by any means.

The most economical way to build/restore an old victorian house may be to use pre fabricated woodwork detailing, trimwork, mouldings etc to try to minimize craftman hours needed in field. I'm curious if anyone's familier with new builds of Victorian style homes today? I've some new houses with a few vague elements, but no full-blown Victorian houses. I'd imagine it would be quite expensive to build.

For those of you with Victorian homes (I know, wide range there), what did you do about the kitchen? I've fallen in love with a Queen Anne/colonial revival rowhome. The only issue with it is the kitchen. This is a community dedicated to building authentic high quality Victorian style houses and offering useful information for doing such including styles of the Victorian era such as Queen Anne, second empire, Italianate, gothic revival, Eastlake,folk Victorian, and more! Here you will find useful information pictures building and construction tips financial stuff improving upon old design.

Are you building a modern home, designed for today's lifestyle wrapped in a Victorian coating, or are you designing a true Victorian designed for a Victorian lifestyle. If the latter, why? If the former, why? The latter requires a true understanding of the social forces at work in the Victorian era, as well as the construction methods and details. See Victorian house floor plans and exterior views of 7 antique homes from the Civil War era, designed by prominent architects and built during the early 1860s.

When I bought a house in my dream Washington, D.C., neighborhood, the house-hunting options were basically Victorian, Victorian, or Victorian. Nearly every rowhouse is some variation on Victorian architecture, which spanned the enormous time frame of 1837 to 1901. In the cities where Victorian-style home architecture took off, it doesn't matter whether a home is Italianate, Second Empire.

A historic home like a Victorian often has beautiful original features that cannot be found in new construction. "Some of my favorite projects are Victorian homes," Jung shares.