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How to Use Victorian Colors for Kitchen Scheme

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Summary: Learn how to use Victorian colors when developing a kitchen scheme in this free home decorating and restoration video.

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By Betty Ingham
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Betty Ingham and her husband Ben, retired from education in 2001. They purchased and have fully remodeled and restored a 100 year old Victorian home from top to bottom. They also own a...read more

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Victorian homes and Victorian style decorating has become a growing home decor and restoration craze over the last twenty years. Victorian homes are turn of the century homes usually found in Eastern America in states like Virginia and North Carolina. Since these houses are so old, restoration of some sorts is almost always part of purchasing a Victorian home. Along with the current trend of buying and fixing up Victorian houses, many people are decorating new houses with old Victorian-style furniture. The experts at Expert Village want to help you restore and decorate your Victorian house.

In this free video series, watch as interior decorator Betty Ingham teaches how to restore and decorate a Victorian style kitchen. Learn how to transport floor into a Victorian style kitchen, how to add modern cabinets to a Victorian kitchen, and how to use Victorian style cabinets. Turn your historical home into a modern day masterpiece with the help of the experts at Expert Village.

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"Hi I'm Betty Ingham and speaking on behalf of Expert Village and I would like to give you a little information on decorating a Victorian kitchen. The colors in this kitchen are very bold to use there bold but there soft and the Victorians love color. So what we did was the first thing we did was we sheet rocked the kitchen because there was no sheet rock the walls in the Victorian house are usually ship lap and that was these were. So we first sheet rocked and we painted the ceiling a different color so it would seem more opened and inviting. "

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