1900s living room

Standard Grandma living room with the dark furniture, floral carpet, and competing draperies. Source: Better Homes & Gardens From the Antique Home & Style collection.

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Kenwood Queen Anne The homeowners wanted to do right by the pedigree of this 1892 Queen Anne residence (designed by Harry Wild Jones), but also make it more functional for their busy family. It had been converted into a boarding house around World War II, leaving it without a full-scale, workable family kitchen. It had […]

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According to this article from Ladies' Home Journal magazine in April 1912, "the first requirement of a living room is to give a feeling of cheerfulness and hospitality." I certainly love the glass doors that open to the fresh air and the the whole room seems to me to look much lighter than typical rooms of the day. This article also featured ideas for the bedroom and dining room, so in the next few entries I'll be continuing with those.

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For sale: $358,900. Carefully restored Queen Ann Victorian with refinished unpainted maple, oak and cherry woodwork, 7 original mantles, about 12 ft ceilings, built in china, heated hobby garage with certified car lift, original smoke house, large storage building, brick garage, approximately 2 acres in town, on National Register of Historic Places

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