Victorian wallpaper, much like many of this year’s runway styles, was brightly colored and often full of floral designs. Those looks might strike you dead, but in the Victorian period, ...

The Wallpaper Inside This California Victorian Costs More Than a Lot of Homes On the market for $2.25 million, the historic Escondido property got about $400,000 worth of wall treatments during a ...

Morris didn’t just have his identity as an artist linked to the wallpaper industry and its arsenic pigments, which allowed for the mass production of newly vibrant and durable colors; his wealth ...

W hen I bought my 1895 Queen Anne Victorian, I knew it had a basement apartment, but I hadn't seen it. In theory, ...

Wallpaper was a popular decorating item in Victorian Aspen. Shops advertised new shipments as soon as they arrived. Patterns and colors for decorating walls achieved as much attention as did fashions ...

Mary Lou and Rick Ponder pose in the Victorian-era reception room on Friday, May 16, 2025. They keep most of their Lafayette Square home, built in the mid 1800s, to exact standards of the time ...

The vibrant green pigments that 19th century artist William Morris used in the wallpapers he created for the Victorian bourgeoisie may have been slowly poisoning his well-to-do customers -- and he ...

Chronicle file photoThe Tri-Cities Historical Museum in downtown Grand Haven.GRAND HAVEN — Time was a precious commodity in 2004 as Tri-Cities Historical Museum officials prepared to open a new ...

The book is interleaved with 275 facsimiles of Victorian wallpaper samples, from The National Archives in London, that were scientifically proven to contain arsenic, an innocuous looking white ...

It had been hidden for 150 years. I pulled it out, it was white wallpaper but it had this beautiful green that I had never seen before. The architect said, 'That's arsenic wallpaper.' I had never ...

The wallpaper was a blue and green block print, likely not original to the house since I found a more distinctly Victorian wallpaper with roses hiding behind it.