Victorian Interiors
"remodeled" to
Arts & Crafts

• House Exterior
• Living Room
• Dining room
• Entry with Staircase
• Plain & Stained Glass Windows
• Wallpaper
• Paint Colors
• Moldings
• Casework
• Exterior Siding
• Roofing
• Lumber
• More

This is a fine reproduction of a 1914 Sears catalog showing the remodeling of the exterior of a house and some of its rooms. Obviously intended to sell building supplies, the catalog lists a bill of materials for each project - all the fixtures and supplies needed, along with prices. Everything starts off as simple late-Victorian - then the interiors are changed to an Arts & Crafts style, a typical sort of "renovation" common at that time.

Four pages are devoted to each room, and include a black & white full-page "before" picture, a full-color full-page "after" picture, the bill of materials, and the usual over-the-top sales pitch of the times. The full-color pictures very clearly delineate the figured wall paper designs, paint colors, molding, and other millwork. This reproduction catalog has its colors daylight-matched the to those of the original catalog.

In addition, there are two pages showing the exterior remodeling, two full pages of window and millwork advertisements, a page of roofing and guttering, and a page advertising the 1914 wallpaper catalog. (We will shortly release a Sears wallpaper catalog.) One page is devoted to an advertisement for a Sears Modern Houses catalog. That page show 34 thumbnail-sized pictures of houses with the cost for each.

See more catalogs like this in our Decorative Arts Department.

We have digitally reproduced and restored our original catalog at an extremely high resolution, and printed the back & white and color pages on heavy archival paper stocks. This is not a photocopy - our methods allow us to retain an unusual image clarity and depth of detail, sometimes limited only by the production values of the original. Some of our fine reproduction catalogs are already in museum research collections.

This reproduction catalog is meant to be a permanent reference. Its true spiral binding, unlike a comb binding, allows this book to remain unharmed when left open at the desired place. The front and back covers are printed on heavy cover stock, protected by sturdy clear vinyl outer covers.