Post by ☆ Sara ☆ on Sept 21, 2012 19:37:36 GMT -5
Parlor rant ahoy!
It's fine for Rebecca. Genericized and romanticized arts and crafts type elements were so common they were cliche by Rebecca's time.
The house I just moved from was a working class house built 1901 and had a similar fireplace (long bricked up) and the exact same rosette molding that is around the windows in it's parlor. Those elements had a very long life.
Ditto Julie. A lot of the hippies in SF moved into Victorians in the 60s because no one valued them. They were a dime a dozen. Many of them were converted to be several 1-2 bed apartments instead of a single family home.
They were often very outdated electrically, uninsulated, and leaky. A lot of them still had builtins and pretty things reflecting their earlier lives as really nice townhouses for the rich instead of low rent housing though.
Ironically, the doll I think it fits least is Caroline. The elements that make it work so well for so many other time periods count against it here. They are too over simplified.
Simpler designs came after mass production in the mid 19th century made them accessible. Things before that were hand carved , finely made, and were more ornate. First floor windows were big and bold shows of wealth and would not be the size of a child.
It's not awful by any means and for any other room it works great but for formal parlor it misses the mark.
It's fine for Rebecca. Genericized and romanticized arts and crafts type elements were so common they were cliche by Rebecca's time.
The house I just moved from was a working class house built 1901 and had a similar fireplace (long bricked up) and the exact same rosette molding that is around the windows in it's parlor. Those elements had a very long life.
Ditto Julie. A lot of the hippies in SF moved into Victorians in the 60s because no one valued them. They were a dime a dozen. Many of them were converted to be several 1-2 bed apartments instead of a single family home.
They were often very outdated electrically, uninsulated, and leaky. A lot of them still had builtins and pretty things reflecting their earlier lives as really nice townhouses for the rich instead of low rent housing though.
Ironically, the doll I think it fits least is Caroline. The elements that make it work so well for so many other time periods count against it here. They are too over simplified.
Simpler designs came after mass production in the mid 19th century made them accessible. Things before that were hand carved , finely made, and were more ornate. First floor windows were big and bold shows of wealth and would not be the size of a child.
It's not awful by any means and for any other room it works great but for formal parlor it misses the mark.