The Victorian House Coloring Book

Great coloring book for a Victorian House loving adult with a broken leg and needing low impact entertainment.

I have owned this Victorian coloring book for just over a year. I still haven't finished coloring everything in it but I've colored most of the pictures. There are a lot of details in this book so keep that in mind if you are looking for a less detailed coloring book. I enjoy coloring it because I lived in a Victorian home when I was a small child and I thought it was a neat place. This coloring book brings back really nice memories for me. Each page takes me on average about 90 minutes to 2 hours to color. It is great for de-stressing but I do find myself frustrated with how long it takes. I also bought the Victorian Houses coloring book but I think this one is more interesting. I like thinking about the house and all of the rooms in it as well as imagining the types of people who would have lived in the house during the Victorian era. It's pretty, I love the Victorian history discussions, and I'm appreciative that some talented individual created this lovely coloring book. Looking forward to finishing it though and moving on to other books. I would recommend purchasing a pack of 30 Crayola Twistable colored pencils if you buy this book. They work the best and don't break like the regular colored pencils I started out using. I am particular about shading and how my pictures look. I intend to save the finished book too - I just wish I written the date on each of the pages as I'd finished coloring them.

I love this coloring book! The images are so pretty and the paper is awesome!

The only problem I really had with this coloring book, is that there isn't more of it! The drawings in this book are lovely, and in the information brief, but interesting. This is, I think I can say, one of my all time favorite coloring books from Dover so far! I love Victorian houses, and so this was just perfect for me! However much I loved it, though, I have to be honest. This book had a problem: Out of 47 pages or so, you get only 19... yes, 19... illustrations, unless you are counting the flowery boarders around the text on the pages that don't have anything more than that, or any tiny misc. illustrations nobody else would count if they'd been the one doing it. So what you REALLY get in this book, is NOT 40 some pages of illustrations... but 19 pictures, and about as many pages with a floral boarder, around a page of text. Just so you know! This was a VERY disappointing flaw in this otherwise fantastic book (which I like very much anyway, but that's beside the point). Also, people need to be sure they understand what they're getting, as I think others have pointed out. You're not getting a coloring book of Victorian houses. You are getting a coloring book featuring the interior of ONE SINGLE HOUSE. This may or may not be clear to some customers. I can't remember whether or not I knew it beforehand, but being someone as interested in the inside as the outside, it doesn't bother me in any case. Finally, the question of detail/quality. I would say the quality of the illustrations is nice. The detail has been left just a bit on the unfinished side. So for instance, the furniture which would have been carved with, in some cases, stupendously intricate detail (which would have been a nightmare to color, actually), are in this book, largely without fine detail. With these nice illustrations, this is hardly a problem, unless you were hoping for photographic realism. (We might wish, but... probably not going to happen any time soon). The reason it's not a problem, is that most objects in the home would've had so many details in many cases, that if you leave half of them out, you've still got enough detail to work with, that it doesn't look bad. So this is not really going to be a problem for most of us. And if you're quite the artist yourself, I suppose you could even endeavor to fill in some of the missing details yourself, which is not a bad idea. Over all, most people are not going to get that picky. But I'll admit... if you are obsessed with historical realism, or you've ever seen a Thomas Chippendale piece (of furniture), or an old Victorian furniture book... you've got me. You'll know what you're missing! I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because while the pictures are lovely, I wish there had been more of them, and with 47 pages, to get only 19 "real" pictures (eg, not counting floral boarders around text that you technically can color), I did nevertheless feel a bit ripped off. Most people probably would feel ripped off! However it does depend on how you look at it. In fairness to the author, whether it's deserved here or not (who only knows), if you were to color the flowered boarders around the text, the finished product, not as a typical coloring book, but as a little book about Victorian houses, would probably be pretty cute. The problem is, most of us don't care about that. We buy coloring books because we want pictures... not text with some illustrations sprinkled in every other page. In that one, single point, this book was rather disappointing. But that didn't stop me from liking it probably a lot more than I should. Now that I've gotten over being "ripped off," (didn't take long with these pictures) I'm free to enjoy the 19 illustrations I really did get (or is it 18 and a half? One was practically a half-page...), for being as lovely as they are. If anything happened to mine, and I had money to spend, I'd probably get it again. Just know what you're getting before you get it, and you'll probably be happy,too.

Lots of fun coloring old houses

I love this coloring book. But a lot of people have expected it to be all houses from the outside. There are a good amount of inside the house pictures, different rooms. I actually love coloring those ones more than the outside of the houses. So it depends on your preference. But I am extremely happy with this coloring book. For markers and some gel pens I would suggest putting a paper underneath the page you a coloring, specifically card stock or a heavyweight paper. Or even put wax paper if you think it won't move around. You could use a removable piece of double-sided tape to put little piece little bit on the edges of the wax paper under the page you are using. This goes for all coloring books that are not heavy weight paper. I, personally, I am extremely happy with this coloring book and have no complaints. So think about buying it.

I don't especially like the coloring book. Half the pages are writing with a flower border.

Fun color book

Libro con dentro disegni da colorare con soggetti di cese e interni , ben fatto le pagine non sono sottilissime e si riesce a colorare sia con le penne a gel e con i pastelli , la spedizione è stata veloce tutto perfetto!

I brought his book at full price for my personal collection. I colour purely as a hobby, one that I put a lot of time and effort in to. The Victorian House Colouring Book is another beautiful book by Dover. It uses the typical paper found in all of their books. Non perforated and of low-medium quality. Each illustration is single sided so almost all mediums can be used if you place paper between the pages to prevent any staining. There are 17 single page illustrations and 1 double page spread. Each illustration is surrounded by a border, the spine is also capable of laying very flat so there is no colouring issues close to it. On the opposing page, surrounded by a border of flowers each illustration comes with a detailed paragraph explaining the function of the room, the type of objects which would be found inside and a little history on the room itself. The first illustration depicts the outside of a Victorian House. This is then followed by the following rooms: the front porch, the front hallway, the parlor, the library, the dining room, the kitchen, the gazebo and flower garden, the stairway, the master bedroom, the daughter's bedroom, the son's bedroom, the bathroom, the water closet, the attic, the basement, the carriage house and lastly, the front of the Victorian House again, this time in a stage of disrepair. The house while styled in a Victorian era fashion lacks the details of tapestries, intricate furniture or wallpaper. There are very few excessively small details, the illustrations lean more towards simple clean lines. Overall it's a beautiful book giving a little glimpse in to the Victorian era of living.

Love this colouring book with the history in it. Thanks, Joanie

Ce livre est bien fait et meme le verso de chaque page est reserve au descriptif de chaque piece, et non a un croquis - ce qui evite le probleme recurrent de l'encre qui traverse papier. Je recommande vivement ce livre, seul petit bemol - mieux vaut comprendre ne serait-ce qu'un peu l'Anglais car les commentaires et directives, tres efficaces, sont dans cette langue. Mais ne soyez pas rebute par ce detail, le livre vaut bien un petit effort! Je voudrais ajouter qu'il s'agit de l'epoque Victorienne telle qu'elle etait aux USA et non en Angleterre - certains elements (chauffe-eau, eau courante, essoreuse a linge etc) ne sont apparus en Europe qu'un peu plus tard. Je ne crois pas que la Reine Victoria ait beneficie de tout le confort montre -du moins au debut de son regne.

Wer den englischen Wohnstil liebt, kann sich hier austoben. Eine Villa wird von außen und innen mit der gesamten Einrichtung zum Ausmalen angeboten. Einfache, aber sehr schöne Bilder geben einen Einblick in den eleganten Wohnstil der englischen Villen in der Vergangenheit . Dickes Papier lässt die Arbeit mit Filzstiften zu. Die Rückseiten sind nicht bedruckt.