Victorian home floor plan

Victorian architecture had its basis in additional practical matters. New building techniques and advances in industrialization enabled builders to style fanciful, highly adorned homes that were limited only by the imagination. The gingerbread trim we commonly accompany Victorian home plans might be mass-produced because of the event of the steam-powered jigsaw and lathe, making it affordable, accessible, and nearly ubiquitous through the late 19th century.

Victorian house plans are ornate with towers, turrets, verandas, and multiple rooms for various functions often inexpressively worked wood or stone or a mixture of both. Although San Francisco is understood for its picturesque two and three-story wooden Victorian "Painted Ladies," the Victorian era yielded beautiful and beloved homes across America and in Canada, Australia, and (of course) England. Technically "Victorian" refers to an era that encompasses East Lake, Queen Anne, Edwardian and more.

Victorian house plans tend to be large and irregular, featuring a mess of bays and roof elements at varying heights. One or more porches provide quiet places to take a seat and visit with the neighbours.

Every opportunity to feature decoration is taken, with turned posts and spindles dressing the porch, elaborate brackets and bargeboards under the eaves, and stickwork or shingled patterns on the upper walls. Victorian homes are traditionally painted in exuberant colour schemes.