Decorating my Victorian Studio: Stories of Unusual Antiques
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- With a house full of antiques, there's bound to be some stories. Since it was time to move and redecorate my studio space, it's also the perfect time to talk about some of my favorite pieces you'll see in every video. I've been collecting for years (not to mention the family antiques), so there's a wide range of sources and styles. Dates range from the mid-19th century through the 1930s, but most of the pieces sit between 1880 and 1910 with Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau stylings.
Artists Mentioned:
Caitlyn McCarthy www.caitlinmccarthyart.com/
Swan Bones kellylouisejudd.com/
Jody Monochrome Art www.etsy.com/shop/JodyMonochr...
Catherine Segura www.etsy.com/shop/CASPhotogra...
Marlow Lune www.marlowelune.com/
Other favorites:
Bellemere www.etsy.com/shop/BELLEMEREbyMAL
Stephanie Buscema www.stephaniebuscema.com/
What I'm Wearing: witchyvintage.com/collections...
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00:00 Background
02:09 Tableau Furniture
04:57 On the Table
09:38 Hanging Art
10:46 Etagere
14:33 Art Deco Corner
16:27 Around the House - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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The "library table" is an early 20th C. Sofa Table, designed for a specific orientation. When a large sofa was placed in the middle of the room with the back visible one of these was put behind it.
Oooh you beat me to it!🥰
Well, now I know what to look for to go with the couch I just picked up
Yup-mid century, it was all the rage to cut them down and make them into coffee tables…. The fate of the gorgeous inlaid wood number that came from my grandmothers house. Still love it so. Few of the good ones survived as sofa tables when fashions changed.
Also known as a console table
Agreed! Believe that ornate bulb places it in the Jacobean-influenced style popular in the 1920s.
I didn't realise how different it must be to go antiques shopping in the US compared to here in Sweden. What you might consider a lucky find could be just an average antique store staple to me. For example, my kitchen chairs are from the late 1800's and I found them collecting dust in a flea market.
Heh heh as a Finn I couldn’t have any more different experience in this.
My very poor foremen used everything until it was beyond repair and then turned it into fire wood. Legit one of the oldest building in my town is 150 years old, school made to honour the invading tzar and u know things are going well when getting invaded by Russia actually means liberation.
American's have a bad habit of throwing away their parents possession's as 'junk,' or are otherwise very limited on space (see California) and frequently purge. Most of the 'great find' antiques I've come across in my search were forgotten in someone's spacious basement back 'East,' as in the eastern half o the US where space is so readily available, things can be forgotten.
the saying I've always heard for this is "in America, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long distance." You have so much more history is so much less space, so it's no wonder you have way more cool old stuff.
Lol, in Australia, we get excited about things from the 1920's....
I'm not big into antiques, so I may be way off base here, but I feel like this really depends on where you are in Europe though. Around the areas where my family lives, larger antiques (that are for sale) are also a rare-ish find - because many families were either bombed and lost their homes or were refugees from modern-day Poland, and thus only had a small handful of heirlooms left, usually stuff that was small enough to carry.
Your black vase is barro negro from Oaxaca, Mexico.💜 Which made me sigh, seeing a piece of traditional mexican culture preserved with such love.
That's so awesome! I've wondered about that piece but hadn't seen anything else quite like it (and googling got me nowhere). Thank you!!
Two things: Your hair is glorious! I am heading off to Pinterest to look up red/cranberry hair looks. AND I would 100% watch the heck out of a "Nicoles Antique Roadshow." Please make more content about your treasures!
Roche, you look so beautiful, sweetheart 😘👌💘🌹 ~ Greetings from New York 😚🙏💝💐
It is cool looking hair. I think my sister had a dress a similar colour.
The lamps are etched cranberry glass and are probably Bohemia in origin stunning pieces
The door definitely needs to lead to a secret room! I loved hearing about your antiques.
Ahhh Nicole, you are a woman after my own heart. My living room is very much similar to yours, as my husband said to a guest we had last week “ minimalist we certainly are not” we are auction house addicts and there are certainly a few pieces that we have that I adore such as my Victorian sewing table which is difficult to describe and a wonderful display cabinet from 1890 that we picked up at auction 3 weeks ago for £30. No one wanted it because brown furniture isn’t wanted these days!
Thank you for allowing us a peek into your precious items
That etagere is beautiful.
Silver cleaning, spray with hairspray after polishing, have not had silver or brass to clean for years. National Trust tip.
I grew up around antiques, inherited what I had room for, and many,many were sold for a song. 😢 Seeing your things brings me back to my childhood, exploring so many great aunts’ fusty parlours and attics. Wonderful memories. You’ve brought them all back. Thank you. ❤️
My grandma had a big oval table that could fit like 20 people, sold it for 100 euros, like bruh that sh*t costs like 600 now, but people don't want thzm.
i LOVE collecting things, and i love other people telling me about their own collections. it's especially cool that some of the items are family heirlooms
As a knitter, crocheter, and novice spinner… I think I love the spinning wheel and skeiner the most! I can just picture the woman spinning the yarn all spring and summer after the sheep were shorn and then winding it onto the skeiner to make hanks of yarn, ready for winter knitting by the whole family. I think that’s something many don’t think about… the whole family knitted back then. And thinking about all the natural dyes she would have used. Man. She had quite the set up! As a modern woman I’m envious!
You are so fortunate to have so many lovely family things! Thanks for the tour!
When I was ready and able to buy a brand new bedroom set (back when everything was still “matchy matchy”) I was in an interior design store one day. One of the props being used was also for sale - a reproduction of a Victorian bedroom. I had no idea what year or what era it was from, but I was drawn to it. So I bought it and had a beautiful bedspread and chair cover made. I also had valances and sheers made. As I said, I had no idea what era it was from until a friend came into the room on a house tour and exclaimed, “I never pegged you for a Victorian gal!” The headboard is humongous - very tall with gorgeous inland wood details. There is also a tall linen chest, a chest of drawers with tri-fold mirrors and two faux marble top side tables with very tall lamps to fit the size of the headboard. It’s my favorite room in the entire house! I never knew I was drawn to Victorian furniture, either!
Bailey has good taste in furniture 💚
That was fascinating! Also - your hair looks great
Ahh, so beautiful! As someone who's Australian, lives in a city that was only founded 110 years ago (although wasn't a popular place to live until the 30s) and whose grandparents were either a) poor as dirt, b) immigrants to Australia or c) both, there's not really a lot of antiques rattling around here. You're lucky if you can get something from the 40s. So I'm very impressed by this collection, especially since so many of the pieces are family pieces!
50 dollars for that gorgeous settee!?!?!?
🤯🤯🤯
I’m in love with the door to nowhere!! Also this is so my style! I’m redecorating my office in a similar way. I thrift a lot of my antiques.
OMG THAT TEA SET! I'm in love! I wish I had the space, money, wherewithal to collect these kinds of pieces -- so beautiful. The only piece I have is my great-grandmother's spinning wheel, which I think dates from the late Victorian or early Edwardian period. :) Thank you for the tour!
You should see Christine McConnell's video on gramophone refinishing. That might be good research to prep for your own project!
This is a great collection and you decorate with it so nicely. I think we need a full home decor tour!
LOVE the red in your hair --- it really looks good with your coloring and hairstyle! Also am drooling big time over those earrings! 😛 All the decor surrounding you is fabulous.
We had the same settee, except that it was a loveseat. The settee in your videos caught my eye when I first started watching your videos, and made me go "same furniture!!"
Oooh I’ve been dying to find out about your antiques & decor. I’ve been collecting antiques since my youth, so this is right up my alley. Thanks for finally sharing this!!! Loving the hair BTW
I live in the Sticks of a rural, East Texas county. In June we moved 3 miles deeper into the woods to the property my dad (of blessed memory) bought in 1981. We're guessing the house to be 90-100 years old, built in a nearby town around the lumber mill, built by the timber company for workers. When it was moved here, 15 miles away? 🤷♀️ We think it was a home for at least a little while but was eventually used as a hunting camp. I've found various vintage pieces here from lamps to shelves to wall pictures, etc. Our chickens have scratched up antique jars and vases from under the house. (Good job, Ladies!) One is an Art Deco canning jar whose design was patented in 1930. My husband is going to build a shelf around top of kitchen wall to hold my pretties ...that will be used. Such as his Grandmother's square, 5 qt, crank butter churn that I still use to make butter and buttermilk from our cow. I love antiques but they must be functional for me. I can't wait to move my wood, cook stove here! Nicole, your collection is awesome! ...but I especially love the fact you have pieces from your own family. That is super special and says so much about you. Thank you for sharing these things with us. 🤗
New subscriber-coming from Abby’s site….loving your esthetic, I wish I had been able to adopt it during my life! I’m now 63 years old and retired due to disability with a fixed income, so it is too late to start now. I do have many antiques that my parents and I collected, but they aren’t really my style. I’m sorry I missed the goth and emo eras, but they would not been a hit in the 70’s growing up. Thank you for letting me indulge in my fantasy a few minutes at a time in your videos. 💕
you're 63, there's still time
I loved this little tour of your antiques! I think what we collect says quite a bit about us as people and I love it when other TH-camrs (Costubers especially) let viewers in like this! Thank you for sharing!!
You have enough stuff to make this a series. I'd watch!
Thank you! I love looking at antiques and vintage items. You have a beautiful collection. I've been admiring your copy of Goldsmith's book of poems for awhile now. I inherited my grandparent's Stereoscope a few years back. It looks to be the same as the one you have. Now I'm collecting Canadian photograph cards to view with it.
if, when you and the others on the cruise in October, have any free time in Southampton, I can recommend going to the Mercentile Flea in Southampton for more lovely vintage and antique pieces to add to your wonderful collection
Both of my grandfathers were in Italy during the war too! 36th Infantry. They brought back so many things...along with an aversion to lamb.
wow! I could listen to you talking about those pretty things forever. This was very interesting and I love every single piece!
What a wonderful collection. Love the sofa and the yarn/fabric creation pieces.
I've just got my 1st antique piece. A singer 12k hand cranked sewing machine from 1888. She will be carefully used as getting the needles for her are a nightmare in the uk.
So many beautiful things! My most prized possession is a family heirloom. It´s a traditional austrian peasants table from 1814 (the date and names of the original owners are carved into it). What I love most about these type of tables are the big bread drawer (for the weekly loaf of bread) and the hidden compartment for valuables which can be accessed by shifting the whole table top
I love story times! No matter how prosaic the object, the back story can be so warm and/or fascinating. My favorite backdrop piece has always been the settee. Amazing how low the price ended up being at that auction. Its acquisition was a magical combination of the right place, the right time, the right price and (wish we had video) the slightly wrong vehicle. 😉
What a treat! The settee is fantastic. I love the red glass lamps, and the black vase on the etagere. I have similar collections, with items from my grandmothers (one graduated from teaching college in Wisconsin in 1912, and had books with fancy covers and a pearl-handled dip pen she won in a poetry contest; the other lived in NYC and worked at a photography studio during WWI (age 17)...I have all of her family's photos, as well as a few pieces of her original artwork. My MIL has also gifted me items from her family. Anything from the 1880s through 1930 works in a tableau. I love rearranging things until they look 'right'. Thank you for the tour of your fascinating goodies!
That is some serious decorating talent to make these super unique pieces to work together so well
I know how to spin and have 2 spinning wheels myself, so I was really hoping to hear about the spinning wheel. Do tell us in future as much as you know if it! My spinning wheels are both from the mid 1900's so not heirlooms, but we have lots of family pioneer stories that have to do with spinning. One is that my 5th great grandfather died with 9 kids at home. His wife made ends meet by spinning men's suits. She was awesome. Another great grandma was an aristocrat but she and her sister's, by the time they were 16, grew and processed all the flax to make a hope chest full of linens for their married life. She used it for tablecloths, linens, etc. They had to flee a mob for religious persecution and much to the shock of everyone she carried the mattress a mile on her back 7 months pregnant! She said she grew the flax and plucked the geese, and she refused to have her lying in without it. When she died years later she was burried in the linens she made as a teenager.
You were so blessed to be in the state of Virginia and go to that estate sale and get that Victorian chair for only $50 dollars 💵 wow on utube you and one other lady named Tanya are the only people I have seen that went to a barn sale or yard sale auction for vintage that was blessed enough to get antique furniture and queen Ann Victorian furniture for only $50 bucks each piece wow this just blows my mind how you guys get such a steal on these antique furniture ❤🇺🇸👍🙏💵😇🎈☮️🗽✝️✡️👼⏰
Thank you for sharing such personal things and stories. What interests us enough to collect and spend our money on says a lot about ourselves.
Great collection Nicole, thank you it was interesting. How nice for you to have vintage family heirlooms, extra special. Like the look, you wear it well. Sweet doggie👍🤗
Hey if you love the arts and crafts movement it might be worth going to Standen House while you're in the UK later this year
I love this channel! Your knowledge of history and how to make such exquisite items, ( such as lampshades, shoes, clothing, etc..), just boggles the mind! Thanks for this video 💗
I have always loved your "set", so it is good to get a closer look at everything. A couple of things 1.) I love how this room, this video, and your relationship with your antiques shows that a.) Antiques should be used and lived with and b.) Mixing eras is fine.....it just looks like a collection curated over time, and the pieces just sort of blend. 2.) While I have seen this in all of your TH-cam videos, so clearly it has become a sort of " set" for youtube, I did not see any sewing specific furniture which leads me to believe you have a separate space for that, but I have, in videos seen you hand sewing in this space.....I mention this to ask a question. I am looking at the idea of needing to reconfigure and redesign my fashion design studio in April when I move, likely having to downsize it and merge it into my bedroom, which has been evolving in a greens/browns Victorian witch direction and I was curious if you find the green on the walls problematic, both for TH-cam and for sewing in terms of viewing colors of pieces you are working on correctly?
Edit: In the clip at the end showing the "forgotten items" I did notice pieces like your sewing table and cutting table were in a room with white or off white walls, so, yes, clearly a separate space, but my question still remains, lol
I could listen to you talk for hours about all your cool old stuff as I am very much the same. I wish you could have talked about the Frazier's Dairy milk jug as I was also born and raised in Frankfort , Indiana and know that name well. My maiden name was Sneathen.
I would love to see a gramophone video!! The design of your piece, the taking apart + cleaning out + reassembly, the restoration of the horn thingy; anything goes! Sounds like a lovely time ☺️🧖💆♥️
Thank you for sharing your amazing decor! I really got hooked on your videos when I saw my cousin’s (caitlin McCarthy is my cousin on my father’s side) artwork sitting behind you 😆. I’m also a seamstress and love watching you recreate clothing in your own style! Keep these amazing videos coming.
Oh your room is a dream. I am currently a student living in a boarding house devoid of decor funds (because they are expensive), so I couldn't buy much, but I am slowly collecting antiques. Your room is absolutely gorgeous.
This was the most lovely thing to watch on a cold & snowy Michigan morning. Thank you for sharing your trove of wonderfulness.
I just saw the white shoes on a pedestal, and the idea of Ruby Slippers came to me. Have you ever thought of making a pair of Ruby Slippers? I would love to see you make some.
I like to play a game of spotting different background objects in TH-cam videos, so it’s really cool to get a close up view of all your antiques! I would love to collect more antiques when I have my own place, but for now I just don’t have the room for it. I do have a few pieces that are probably more on the vintage side (including a chest from my g grandma (maybe early to mid 20th c?) and a tea set from Japan c1950s?) I’m the self-proclaimed “family historian” so I have quite a few items earmarked for me in the future!
I'm a painter artist (I have to write that because of the different genres of artists) but I make my own historical clothing like you and have been making them since early 2000s like you. And like you I have a Victorian art studio/sewing room 😊 I love your channel. It's my favourite.
“Inherited” I love antiques! Settees are lovely! Great purchase!
My mother-in-law was a partner in an antique store here in New England. My husband and I used to go weekly, sometimes several times a week to auctions either with her or by ourselves. We had a space in her shop as a part time business. We managed to do all that while both of use worked full time in the corporate world. It was a great learning experience. I still have many of the items still crammed into this house. But what I wanted to mention was the yarn or skein winder. In the quick look at it, it appears that the arms are on backwards or the small handle on the arm is on the wrong side. That handle was used to actually spin the arms. I knit and spin fiber and I have an antique yarn winder here too. I also have a beautiful antique spinning wheel from the mid 1700-early 1800. Personally, I love antiques. The have such great stories to tell us.
There is a strong love for antiques in my family and my granparents have so many objects/pieces of furniture that have been in the family for more than a century for some; it has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. For now I still live with my parents and my room is small but I still managed to create a tiny antiques/historical nook and carefully stored the rest of my treasures while I wait to have my own house. I also inherited from all the remaining antique/vintage pieces of clothing from my maternal grandmother's side of the family, and I cherish these piece. My favourite is my great-great-grandmother's midwife apron from the early 1900.
"a Bailey from 2009" 😂 the curtains are my favourite type of green 💚
You have such a nice collection of old and pretty things, thanks for the tour! ^^
I’ve envied your space for so long, I’d kill to have that room! Thank you for sharing♥️
SAME!
@@themurrrr right!!?
I'm so glad you made this video because I'm so enamored with your beautiful decor and it's great to hear the stories behind individual pieces.
Your étagère is the stuff of dreams! So pretty and delicate 😍
Thank you for this lovely tour, you have some gorgeous pieces ❤️
Love this. More videos like this! Make it a series! I want the next one to be up-close and stories of all the stuff you “forgot” at the end!
A banjolele! Such an item almost broke up Jeeves and Wooster!
Sofa 200 plus years old and looks in decent condition... my 4 year old modern sofa looking like it's dying... is so telling.
The old radio 🥰... I remember my gram having a long tv/radio rectangular furniture peice.. it had such a different sound, but electric came in on it 😒
The antiques are beautiful as well as the history behind them. I wish I had family photos that old, I'm so glad someone cherishes their family history that spans back generations, as not everyone has that luxury. Great video!
I think immigration is one of the things that really disrupts those collections, even when it's economic peacetime immigration and not fleeing a country. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents were immigrants, and one did have to escape Hungary pretty fast postwar. They couldn't take furniture or many items with them, so we're lucky if we have a few photos. And now I'm going to move to Finland, and I'm facing having to ship things. It's expensive, even though I'm only shipping clothes and a little bit of homewares! I can see why a lot of people just sold everything, especially in the past.
Oh my goodness, that lampshade was gorgeous. Excellent job!
What a beautiful room, Nicole!😍 So many wonderful antiques! I LOVE it! ❤ (I also LOVE your earrings! Very pretty & they play nicely against the red in your hair!😊)
I love your settee! I work at a ReStore and we get a lot of gorgeous settees and chaise lounges but for some reason they take forever to sell and dont sell for a lot. I wish I had room for them all!
I bet they weigh a lot too! My Grandmother had a wine coloured couch with velvet fabric and wood carved lion arm fronts. I loved it! A 6' person could lie on it and their feet wouldn't reach the other end. It was dark and a bit spooky . I would have loved that piece but it way too heavy to lift.
The only antique settes I've sat on are dreadfully uncomfortable and very springy
Watching this gives me such nostalgia! When visiting Michigan as a teen, we would stay with my grandma's best friend, and her house was filled with Victorian antiques. They were all pieces that had been used in her family for more than a century. I stayed in a room with a 3/4 sized bed, and I got to read old LIFE magazines (I specifically remember one from 1936 being very critical of Germany). She even had an old Sears-Robuck catalog from the 1880s, I think!
Entege is awesome and yes I would Sweat if I had to move thar too. I vote for a gramophone refurbishing video! Your hair looks lovely. I almost saved this video for dinner time but am glad I indulged.
I'd love to see gramophone video too!!
Nicole, you are drop dead gorgeous with your hair that colour, it really suits you. Also, those earrings are fabulous.
You have collected some wonderful, interesting, and gorgeous items!
I love your "antique" hair color!
Thank you for the tour. This was really neat. Your hair looks fantastic. Very funny that it matches the decor. Favorite piece was definitely the Bailey. :)
What an excellent video! The tables & the open display unit in dark wood are exquisite! Real museum pieces!
Thank you so much for the tour! I love things old and wonderful 💐💞
All that carving was done by hand and looks really good.
You have such beautiful pieces! As a fellow lover of antique and vintage décor, I really love your decorating style.
My favorite is the eteger withe the display of hats and your incredible shoes you've made! I like the work you put into the two lamps, very authentic looking! Tfs
Bailey has good taste in furniture. You have great antiques.
I love the design of the rubber box so much it looks so cool I would love to have something like it
The beautiful door is meant for a Narnia wardrobe! I feel it in my bones.
What a treat. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for showing us all the wonderful things you have!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful antiques with us xxx
Everything looks lovely. Thank you for the tour.
Fellow Merry Blackbird Society friend!! ♥And such a lovely box to keep them in!
Thank you for sharing your lovely pieces
Thanks Nicole for your well researched and interesting videos. I really enjoy them :)
Loving all of those wonderful pieces!!
so many pretty and fascinating things! thank you for the video 😊
thank you for sharing your household items with us. very nice collection
I really enjoyed seeing your treasures! Thank you
Wonderful antiques! Love the new hair color, very fetching!
Love your taste and peices! Thank you for sharing.
Well I enjoy learning things from you! I find your creativity admirable! Thank you!
You have so many lovely pieces! I really like antiques but I live in the Vancouver BC area so antiques are usually on the pricy side and the older ones tend to be harder to find. And I definitely don't have the room to add furniture.
Your new room is beautiful, thanks for sharing the stories about everything with us. 💖
The whole room is amazing! The lamp is so well done. Thanks for sharing a bit of there story
Thank you for sharing your lovely things. I too would love to see a video on the gramophone restoration.
I'm so glad you explained the random door, I've wondered about it for a while x