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Traditional Southern interior design mixes formal Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival detailing with architecture shaped by the climate, plus antiques that get…
Thick walls and handmade local materials do most of the work in a traditional Spanish interior. Terracotta, lime plaster, dark timber, wrought…
The name gets stuck on a lot of rooms that aren’t colonial at all. Colonial Revival, which dates from the 1870s, and…
Peter Thornton’s The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400-1600 (Abrams, 1991) is the standard scholarly study of the subject, and its first part deals…
Georgian, Federal, American Colonial, Victorian, French Country and English Country rooms look quite different from one another, yet they all trace back…
Traditional Cape Cod interior design comes down to pine floors, plain furniture and small low-ceilinged rooms packed around one central chimney. It’s…
The floor decides almost everything in a traditional Korean room. Heat rises from the ondol, so furniture stays low, the space stays…
Walk into an old German farmhouse and you’ll find that only one room was ever properly warm. People called it the Stube,…
Most of what makes a traditional Mexican room look the way it does was built, not bought. Thick adobe walls, lime plaster,…
Ask most style guides what sets traditional interior design apart and they’ll say ornate detail. The Georgian sources behind the style say…