Personalised Servants Call Boxes
A good customer recently had an unfortunate accident and smashed the painted glass front on their much loved servants call box and asked us if we could find a way to replace it in a cost effective way. In the...
A good customer recently had an unfortunate accident and smashed the painted glass front on their much loved servants call box and asked us if we could find a way to replace it in a cost effective way. In the...
Thanks to Joanne Priest, a regular organiser of Repair Cafes for this Months blog post. You can read Jo's Wordpress Blog Question: What’s free, helps the environment, helps you to meet people and make new friends, skills you up, let’s you...
If you're refurbishing your property or just decided to put some originally back in, buying antique and original door furniture can be a little daunting. We might be a bit biased but it's really just as easy as buying new....
The First Impression Choosing the right front door furniture for your period home can be a little tricky, luckily in our experience there aren’t really any hard and fast rules. The vast majority of inquiries we have are about Victorian,...
Styles of Antique door handles A common inquiry we have here at Architectural Décor is which style of antique door handle is right for a home of a particular period. Most of our inquiries about 1860 into the 1930’s and...
With the growing fashion to display antique servants call bell systems in our homes as decorative pieces, we often get asked about the history. Call bell systems certainly existed in grand country estates and large city houses from the mid...