r/VictorianHouses

Hello, I have few questions.

1. Arches seems to be partially from wood and the very top, most detailed part from plaster/gypsum.
   Can I safely sandblast them with damaging the plaster?
   I don’t want to use any paint strippers or heat gun. Doors already costed me too much of my life.

2. This line along the hallway is I think made of plaster/gypsum. I struggle to find this exact profile.
   What are my options? Do I need to take a mold of it and then pure the quick setting gypsum to it? Do it needs to be reinforced inside? Or how were these things made on the first place?

3. I want to use this line to do the panelling across whole hallway but I’m not sure about proportions.
   It is on 2.78 (85cm) whereas the hallway is 11.48 (3.5m).
   Not sure is this not suppose to be taller.
   Height of other floors get lower tho 10.48 (3.2m), and then 8.85 (2.7m) all the way up.
   Any thoughts/experience to share?

4. I wanted to do bottom cream and top white. Usually panels are white top or some other colour, but I don’t want to make the space too dark.
   Will reversed colours look odd?

Room needs a refresh for decor but the woodwork is so beautiful! How would you update decor (rug, windows treatments, paint window mullions? Etc. I don’t mean alter the woodwork).

Maple house at Garden Island, Charlotte, VT

This is my home, built in 1891 for a local lawyer and his family. I don’t think he was wealthy — records indicate he borrowed money from two wealthy sisters who later foreclosed when he died — but the house is the largest on the block. The rest of the block are vernacular houses of the same size and shape (same builder?) that are best described as Victorian Cottage I guess.

What kind of architecture is this, and do you think the plans came out of a form book or something? The triangular attic extends over the porch quite a bit. I haven’t seen that anywhere else in town.

The little yellow box in front is a Little Library I built for the neighborhood.

Formerly a church. Now a condominium. So there.

So I took photos of these homes when I went for a walk here in Ashland, Oregon, which is where I live currently as I have come to learn to appreciate some of the more older Victorian homes in my current town of Ashland, Oregon.

I have for a long time as such now been a huge fan of homes from the Victorian and Edwardian era as they have a certain charm and character to them that you just never get with slick, modern condos as I absolutely hate and loathe those kinds of homes. Enjoy these photos to your heart's desire!

Sad, actually