Set Design and Construction: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)

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Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)

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Topic: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)

Posted By: lucyvanpelt04
Subject: Arsenic and Old Lace walls (Flats)
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 8:13am

What can be done to the flats to make them look "Victorian" for Arsenic and Old Lace?

Thanks.

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Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/21/05 at 11:36am

Fancy wallpaper.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/wallpaper/hikim10.html - http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/wallpaper/hikim10.htm l

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POB
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Posted By: Aimee
Date Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:23am

The drector I worked with on a show wanted a "vistorian look and we just used a real rich wine colored paint, then used a wall paper border. Sometimes those deep colors can give you the look you need.

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Aimee

Posted By: Zmurgist
Date Posted: 7/20/06 at 10:30pm

Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:03pm

Purchase or create a stencil pattern that can be used over and over on the flats to create the look of old-fashioned wallpaper. Space the stencil in regular intervals either in a stripe or diagonal pattern.

After it is dry, use a wash or a glaze in a brown shade to "age" the walls, giving special attention to the corners and near the "ceiling" where dust and grime typically gather.

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Posted By: JoeMc
Date Posted: 7/21/06 at 11:08pm

From memory of Victorian times & decore. It wasn?t so much Regency as being rather sombre, when it came to wall furnishings, however as it not set in Pohmy land. It would have been more plain colours, like stippled 2 tone duck egg blue for the walls & the set dressed in victorian style with a lot of antimacassars & doleys on the furniture. The only accented colour was with the odd Aspidistra majolica Jardinieres &/or willow patern Delf ware displayed.
Use the odd Sepia [milk chocolate] gels to give the musty atmosphere with the lighting wash.

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