Interior Victorian Paint Colors
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Interior victorian paint colors. Traditional victorian paint colours still work well for modern living. You very rarely saw a victorian home with just one or two colors. Victorian homes usually built in the mid to early 1800s were painted a certain color inside.
Interior colors were typically the traditional earth tones often in deeper hues of red amber emerald and dark brown. Popular colors included aubergine mustard yellow teal plum lavender black walnut and burgundy. The colors used to paint these mansions were bright yellow orange chocolate blue and red.
The main color was usually 60 of the surfaces in the home the secondary color was read more. Although deep shades are synonymous with victorian interiors dark doesn t have to mean drab. Colours that work especially well in today s victorian homes include opulent blues and greens vivid earthy reds and yellows and luxurious greys.
Apr 3 2016 explore rachel harnish s board victorian interior color schemes on pinterest. But the intense contrasts and layered decorating styles remained constant. As time went on the victorians began to favor the line over the curve along with slightly more subdued colors.
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