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Furniture
The Victorian Era furniture managed to distinguish itself by having certain aesthetics. It heavily avoided the gothic style [1]. Darker furniture started to become increasingly prevalent in contrast to the lighter ones because of the alteration away from the Gothic style. Furniture during this time was made in the darkest wood [2]. Folks primarily being accustomed to gothic-like styles made the darker furniture during this time more suitable. These styles of heavy designs were dark mahogany with a reddish tinge, rosewood, black walnut, and bog oak, which were all used as variations in the furniture during the Victorian Era [3]. Decorations were a pleasing characteristic because they were monumental in effect and decorated with carvings that were made into flowers, fruits, animals, creatures, and humans [4]. Heavily carved furniture was popular at first, but in the late 1880’s flimsy bamboo furniture became more desirable [5].

Victorian aesthetics still play a role in present day furnishing. The clock tower is still used to decorate homes, even until this day [6]. The aesthetics of dark mahogany wood was incorporated to all furniture of the home. Sofas were made out of ebonised wood, which sometimes had removable seats [7]. Chairs also were made out of wood, preferably mahogany. They could also be oak and decoration was incised [8]. Pairs of chairs were polished with satinwood and were decorated with ebonised rings [9]. Tables were made out of solid, dark wood and had turned decorations, just as the chairs did [10]. Within the bedrooms, the same dark wood style was kept throughout; the only exception was that the inside of the baths were painted cream [11]. Every bedroom had an ample wash-stand with a marble top, toilet set, basin, soap dish, tooth-brush stand, and chamber spot [12].