How To Draw Android 18
With advice from experts in Victorian interior decoration, the curator Dr David Parker had restored Charles Dickens’ drawing room in Dickens historic House Museum in London in Doughty Street, the only surviving home of the famous Victorian novelist. Dickens and his family lived there in 1837- 1839. The style of the room’s interior design, as described in the Museum, falls “between the lightness and elegance of the Regency period and the heavy, dark, stuffy atmosphere of the Victorian period”.
The drawing room, or parlour, was the centre of the Victorian home, a room where the family could withdraw (with-drawing room) in comfort from the anxieties of modern life. The Dickensian drawing room in a Victorian home makeover should recreate a “colourful, solid and comfortable” effect.
Dickensian Drawing Room Colour Scheme
The paint Dickens used in his drawing room was a lilac shade. The colour was revealed through microscopic examination of old paint scrapings that remained from the 1830s. The lilac shade was almost certainly Dickens’ choice. The Victorians were initially quite restrained when it came to wall paint, though they were eager to embrace the mauves and purples of the new wallpaper and furnishing materials.

