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     • At the start of the Victorian period most houses were lit by candles and oil lamps. Interior fittings included chandeliers (suspended from the ceiling) and sconces (fixed to the wall).
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   How do you light a Victorian house?

   • How to Light a Victorian Home in an Authentic Style. At the start of Queen Victoria’s 63 year reign in 1837, houses were lit by candles and oil lamps and from the light provided by coal fires. Gas lighting was introduced in the mid to late Victorian period and at Victoria’s death in 1901 electric lighting was only in its infancy.

   How to Light a Victorian Home in an Authentic Style

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   How were houses lit in the Victorian era?

   • At the start of the Victorian period most houses were lit by candles and oil lamps. Interior fittings included chandeliers (suspended from the ceiling) and sconces (fixed to the wall).

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   What type of lighting did Victorians use?

   • Lighting in large Victorian drawing rooms, parlours and dining rooms would have included imposing chandeliers suspended from the ceiling on chains. Victorian rooms generally had high ceilings which were well suited to these long drop chandelier style fittings, which had the effect of lowering the ceiling and reducing the apparent size of the room.

   How to Light a Victorian Home in an Authentic Style

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   Why did Victorians not use gas lights in bedrooms?

   • People opted for candles or oil lamps to walk to bed, reducing the need for gas lighting upstairs. Above all, Victorians had suspicions about the health impact of gas so often avoided gas lighting in bedrooms. However, I was lucky enough to find traces of old gas light pipes in my bedrooms.

   Antique lighting for your period home - Mr Victorian

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   Do Victorian homes have new light fittings?

   • Most Victorian homes in use today will have had new light fittings installed when their electricity supply was first introduced and the chances are they have been updated many times since. To keep lighting in character we need to have a balance between historic authenticity and practicality.

   How to Light a Victorian Home in an Authentic Style

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   Did Victorians use gas lights?

   • The Victorians would’ve been dazzled by the light in our homes today as the average gas light or early light bulb was equivalent to a 10-watt bulb, which you can’t even buy now! Victorians sat directly under a light source when they read or sewed, hence gas lights being positioned over a parlour fireplace or above a kitchen table as shown below.

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3. www.buildingconservation.com › articles › lightingLighting in the Victorian Home - Building Conservation

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   At the start of the Victorian period most houses were lit by candles and oil lamps. Interior fittings included chandeliers (suspended from the ceiling) and sconces (fixed to the wall).

4. todayshomeowner.com › guide-to-victorian-lightingGuide to Victorian Lighting (2024) | Today's Homeowner

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   May 27, 2024 · Gas lighting was the posh, pretty-boy, poster child of Victorian interior lighting, but its technology and expense restricted its use to wealthy urban homes and public places. Likewise for electric lighting, which began in 1879 when Thomas Edison perfected the commercial incandescent lamp and, more important, a system to power it.

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6. lucyworsley.com › a-quick-history-of-domestic-lightingA quick history of domestic lighting | Lucy Worsley

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   The light, bright colours of Georgian interiors would be replaced by rich, dark hues in the Victorian age. Deeper tones helped hide the soot produced by oil lamps, which began to replace candles in the later eighteenth century.

7. www.bespokelights.co.uk › blog › 2015How to Light a Victorian Home in an Authentic Style.

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   Sep 29, 2015 · At the start of Queen Victoria’s 63 year reign in 1837, houses were lit by candles and oil lamps and from the light provided by coal fires. Gas lighting was introduced in the mid to late Victorian period and at Victoria’s death in 1901 electric lighting was only in its infancy.

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8. digpodcast.org › heating-homes-victorian-britainGet Lit: Heating and Illuminating Homes in Victorian Britain

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   Dec 3, 2017 · While open coal hearths continued to dominate home heating, the Victorian era was also the first to use radiant boiler-powered heat, whole-house gas lighting, and even – infrequently, but innovatively nonetheless – electricity.

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9. fet.uwe.ac.uk › conweb › house_agesVictorian & Edwardian Services (Houses) 1850-1914 - UWE

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   The use of gas lighting on the upper floors was often restricted at this period to the landing and the average middle class family probably retired to bed by the light of a candle. Downstairs in the service area, flat flame gas burners without glass shades were generally used.

10. mrvictorian.co.uk › 2019/09/20 › antique-lightingAntique lighting for your period home - Mr Victorian

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    Sep 20, 2019 · Getting the right type of antique lighting style for your home is dependent on its location, status and age as well as the period you’re trying to replicate. So here’s what I’ve learnt. Oil vs gas vs electric