Home decoration

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Home decorating with their own hands was a hot topic in the early 21st century. cable television programs studied decorative drawing and the basics of furniture arrangement; Mail-order companies offered high-quality accessories, ready-made curtains, and covers; There was even a home decorating book club. The free-time home decorator has been honored with an abundance of information and buying options, from cable TV shows to crafts tutorials. Home 'improvement' - redesigning the architecture of the house - was an activity shared by both men and women. However, home decoration remained primarily a female game.




In the eighteenth century, a handful of wealthy Americans outfitted the rooms of their new Georgian mansions to reflect their status and membership in the transatlantic elite. The restored interiors of Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate, reflect the 'good taste' of the time, a taste that produced elegant and somewhat impersonal public rooms. Women from well-to-do families sometimes made covers or embroidered pictures for chairs, but the abundance of accessories, houseplants, framed pictures, and textiles that characterized the room decorated in the house 100 years later was not evident in the palace homes of its time. Since self-conscious interior decoration was so rare, it must have seemed especially impressive to the common people who lived in small two-, three-, or four-room houses—there is little room for useless adornment of any kind, even assuming that industrious women inhabited There she had the time to make them, or the money to buy them.

Before sewing machine production began in factories in the 1850s, women who did housework and knitting had little or no time to devote to decorating their physical surroundings; They were too busy cutting bed sheets and sewing straight seams by hand. Curtains, which tended to be the most expensive single item on household inventories during the 1820s, were small islands of decorative splendor in rooms with scant furniture that had almost no carpets or curtains.

Once women were able to devote less time to basic sewing at home, many of them converted those working hours to decorate their homes. Do-it-yourself home decorating has become a really popular activity, also thanks to the drop in prices for attractive factory woven fabrics by the middle of the century. Several temporal surveys of interior decoration document the trend toward visual complexity and abundance of materials in American rooms. Elizabeth Donaghy Garrett's book At Home: The American Family 1750-1870 is a well-illustrated survey of room-organized decor and housekeeping practices. Jane C. Nylander's Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home 1760–1860 provides a detailed description of decorating practices, including information on the burdens of sewing. William Searle's 'Delicious Interlude: American Interiors Through the Eye of the Camera', 1860-1917 remains the most comprehensive collection of photographs documenting the period of greatest development in American decor, the Victorian Era. Its limitation is the lack of color. Parlors, dining rooms, and halls of Victorian homes were usually decorated in deep shades of red, green, sienna brown, golden yellow, and dark blue. However, the meticulous planning evident in even the most modest of interiors indicates how important home décor is for the women who live their lives within these rooms.


Until the 1870s, the ideal lover (or ideal beauty) of home decor could be expressed simply: everything, bought in sets, must match, and the furnishings (curtains, bedspreads, sitting furniture) well decorated Rooms must be of color One. The decor of such rooms should look clearly planned, orderly and harmonious, and not just a simple accumulation of goods. People who could afford to buy rooms that catered for this model—and there were very few of them—showed that they had the means to do everything they bought at once. (Purchasing a new set of bedroom or living room furniture continued to suggest the same in the early 2000s.) Few Americans could afford to use skilled upholsterers, and interior designers at the time, but even well-to-do women were often skilled seamstresses. They were able to make patterns and sew family 'furniture', curtains, slipcovers, and other decorative textile objects for their homes. One of the best overviews of the intricacies of home sewing before the sewing machine, including Interior Décor, Period Source, Working Woman's Handbook, by 'Lady'.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, a new American middle class assimilated, who had more money to spend and was preoccupied with forums appropriate to show a respectable identity. The cultural ideal of the family, the belief that a private home should be a haven for family life and that

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