1930s house - original features?

yumyums

ormus wrote: »

if it was built as a simple shop, then its unlikely to have any fancy design features installed.
im not keen on the arch front. id be tempted to remove that.
at the roofline.

Oi! I like my funny arch but thanks for the advice
Please don't be tempted to come remove it when I'm not at home...

What was the verdict regarding the hallway? Would it have been plain wooden floor in a basic house of this type? Funny that that's an expensive option nowadays!

Yorkie1

I think mine is pretty basic, it has wooden floorboards over joists. Parquet is definitely more designer I reckon!

DVardysShadow

yumyums wrote: »

... What was the verdict regarding the hallway? Would it have been plain wooden floor in a basic house of this type? Funny that that's an expensive option nowadays!

Late to the party on this. I have seen tiled 30's floors. Not so ornate as the victorian stuff - usually a plain fill with a decorative border.

Typical decorative borders shown here http://www.wallsandfloors.co.uk/range/victorian-tiles/victorian-border-inset-tiles/ and I think you would probably be able to get plains to match one of the colours on a border.

Doozergirl

That does say "Victorian Floor Borders/Tiles" though, doesn't it?

I've just realised I'm a Period Detail Pedant.

DVardysShadow

Doozergirl wrote: »

That does say "Victorian Floor Borders/Tiles" though, doesn't it?

I've just realised I'm a Period Detail Pedant.

Indeed it does. But I have seen these borders in 30's houses with plain infill. I think it goes with the discussion about houses being built using styles from an earlier era - all that changed was moving to a plain infill.

Even now many modern houses are equipped with Victorian coaxial sockets, of a kind which would have been familiar to Queen Victoria herself, if only she looked behind her television, although I doubt she ever did.

Doozergirl

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Even now many modern houses are equipped with Victorian coaxial sockets, of a kind which would have been familiar to Queen Victoria herself, if only she looked behind her television, although I doubt she ever did.

Her TV? Shut Up! :rotfl:

DVardysShadow

Doozergirl wrote: »

Her TV? Shut Up! :rotfl:

Why did she say "We are not amused"? There was never anything interesting on the TV, of course.

ormus

they called it the, ipicture

Doozergirl

ormus wrote: »

they called it the, ipicture

They've definitely got Farrow & Ball on the walls, there's no way they'd pull off the Period feel of that room with Dulux.

I believe that's a Cockerpoo next to him on the chair.

Welsh_Totster

Sorry I'm late back to this, with regard to replacing my doors I have two options. The more expensive and true to era option if trawling through reclamation yards to find solid wood original doors or the much cheaper modern option of going to Howdens and buying reproduction hollow doors in exactly that style. I'm gonna look in the reclamation yards first!