Tips to Create Victorian Style Kitchens

Victorian style kitchens are perfect for people who love attention to detail in their decoration choices.  Some might find the style a bit fussy, others will warm to the busy (but pretty ) highly ornamental look.  In this modern era, transforming your oh so modern kitchen into the Victorian style could be akin to creating a new oasis within your home where the kitchen brings back nostalgic moments.  The style can act to remind you of glory times from the past and reflect the royal lifestyle. And if you prefer, you can combine Victorian kitchen with a modern touch.  You might achieve this, for example, by creating more open space than is traditional in a Victorian kitchen. It doesn’t have to be the genuine Victorian style, it’s up to you.

Victorian Style Kitchens have a Focus on the wall,  ceiling and floor

As mentioned above, Victorian style kitchens are full of decorative elements and ornaments. The first thing to consider is how to decorate the largest three spaces in the kitchen: the walls, ceiling and floor. A fast way to decorate wall in the Victorian style is by applying a vintage floral theme wallpaper. If you hunt around you should be able to find a wallpaper with an exact replica pattern from Victorian times. Some specialty stores sell older style wallpapers, including wallpaper with Victorian theme.

Traditionally, the ceiling is usually is adorned with a panels made from plaster and chopper. Installing ceiling panel from chopper will make your kitchen looks vintage and stylish. These panels incorporate mosaic patterns and rectangle shapes. The effect of the ceiling panel arrangements can look like tiles on the floor.
Similar to the walls and ceiling, the Victorian kitchen floor should be decorated with decorative tile. If you see this from far, you might think that this floor is covered with rugs, because this floor tiles have a pattern almost like rugs.

 

Special furniture

In a normal kitchen, we store items in a kitchen cabinet, however, for Victorian style kitchens, we might put them on an antique dresser. You can find this style of dresser at antique stores. What make this furniture look unique is that it incorporates both a storage place and a place to display kitchen accessories. You can put plates, spoons, cookware and any items inside dresser drawers and at the same time put ornaments or even a flower arrangement in vase on the dresser.

How to Select Kitchen appliances for Victorian Style Kitchens

One of the challenges of Victorian kitchen decoration is how to camouflage modern appliances so they don’t destroy the Victorian style you are creating. In a real Victorian kitchen, they would have used an iron stove and wood as fuel. Of course, you don’t want to do that now! What you can do is select kitchen appliances that have decorative wood panels on their exterior. It’s the only one way to camouflage them. If you are willing to go to more trouble, you could buy a Victorian style stove made from iron and then modify it to use gas as its fuel, and not wood anymore.

Kitchen table

A classic Victorian table is made from sturdy wood, has a rectangle shape and legs with decorative carving on them. This table is a multifunction piece of furniture: used for preparing and serving food and to store items using drawers under table top surface. Usually this table is painted in white or brown. Some Victorian tables are of a large size, able to seat many people.

Window treatment

Decoration will not be complete without installing decorative valances on the kitchen window. This valance would usually have a floral pattern or pictures from the Victorian period. These valances are available in any colors, but it’s best not to select a vibrant color if you wish to reflect the atmosphere from the past.
So there you have it, some simple ideas for how you can get the look of those traditional Victorian style kitchens.
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