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Hello and welcome to Homefront. Today I've come to the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London, where an exhibition opens next week devoted to the great Victorian designer William
Morris.
We get fired up about bricks. And Graham and Maxine Walsh, our home improvers from Pudsey,
are finally cooking with gas.
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believed to be beautiful.
This is William Morris' most famous statement and it characterises his whole work.
Morris was not only the leading designer of his age, he was also a best-selling poet and
novelist and a founder of the socialist movement. But what we remember him for are these designs,
which are still as popular with us today as they were with the Victorians.
This is the Red House in Bexley Heath near London. It was specifically designed for Morris
by his great friend the architect Philip Webb in 1859. Morris used the house as the first
real test bed for his thinking on interior decoration and from his experiments here his
most famous designs emerged.
The Victorian trend in interiors was to have plenty of stuff crowded into every available
space. In a rebellion against the mass production of the time, Morris decided to furnish Red
House simply and with as many handmade items as possible. I met Morris' biographer Fiona
McCarthy in the house that marked the beginning of the arts and crafts movement.
Morris had the idea of focusing, focusing the attention onto natural materials and that's
very much summed up I think in the hall. It's a very pared down interior. There's so much
bare exposed brickwork, there's quite startling use of pattern on the inside of the door particularly
and then there's this wonderful staircase. There's a sort of mobility to it and it's
made in this very plain oak.
From early on Morris was fascinated by pattern. He tried using very bold geometric shapes
to complement the severe architecture of the staircase and he looked to the surrounding
countryside and wildlife for decorative motifs. One of his earliest wallpaper designs, Trellis,
is based on the trellising in the garden outside.
Inspired by medieval houses, Morris hung fabric on the walls. He saw the Middle Ages as a
time when workers had enjoyed their work compared to the misery they suffered in Victorian factories.
He used traditional methods of dyeing his fabrics and you can see the subtle vegetable
colours in his most famous designs, Strawberry Thief and Honeysuckle.
Morris established a firm in 1861 to produce hand-crafted decorative furniture and furnishings
and he opened a shop on Oxford Street in London. This catalogue has everything for the Victorian
home. Some items from Morris's own workshop, others by craftsmen who were sympathetic to
his views.
You can still find original Morris and Company items in antique shops at a price. London
store Liberty has collected these for a selling exhibition this month. These tiles by artist
William de Morgan are now valuable collector's pieces. And the Sussex chair that once cost
seven shillings is now highly sought after.
Morris and Company continued long after Morris's death but in 1940 the Company went into liquidation
and was split up. Competitors snapped up his designs and Harris Fabrics and Liberty's continued
to produce his original textile patterns today. You can tell if it's a Morris or not by looking
at the edge of the fabric.
Art dealer Tim Dawson has spent years scouring antique shops and buying from specialist dealers
to fill his Victorian house with genuine Morris items.
What exactly is Morris about this room?
Well there are a number of Morris items in the room and Morris related items. The wallpaper
was designed by Morris's daughter May. The curtains for instance are woven woollen curtains
which were made in the 1880s. The bed cover which is in fact made of a pair of curtains
is also Morris.
I think Morris is a very attractive character. I'm quite interested in his political views
as well as his designs but his designs were wonderful.
In the dining room there's the marigold wallpaper in a sort of dark olive color. There are William
de Morgan ceramics, some of his chargers and other ceramics in there as well as one or
two items of Morris furniture.
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You don't have to spend a fortune for a Morris look.
This old chapel conversion has a tiny room which the owners want to use as a winter living
room.
We asked thrifty decorator Jocasta Innes to find an affordable way to create a Morris
feel.
Basically we're going to rejuvenate the Morris look.
So we've used a yellow on the walls and it's actually a softer stemper which is a paint
that Morris used on his wallpaper design.
And we're going to brighten that up quite a lot.
A particularly favourite Morris feature, we're going to put a shelf round the top of the
room and that will be stained green.
And that gives you a whole sort of architectural motif which will tie the room together.
Plus you'll be able to arrange all kinds of nice things on the shelf.
And then we're going to use a stencil going round under the shelf because stenciling is
a cheap way of getting a Morris pattern into the room.
So we're going to do a stencil which is based on a Morris design.
On one wall we're going to use a Morris fabric because that's the kind of thing he did.
He would have probably covered an entire room like this with fabric but that's expensive.
So we're just going to make a feature of one wall with the gathered Morris colours.
And I think probably with that and the furniture patterns and the fabrics and embroideries
and things that we'll be bringing in, you'll get a very strong sense of Morris even in
this tiny space.
Awesome.
In today's world of standardized units and regular shapes, there's a real move back
to handmade building materials.
William Morris would definitely have approved of this week's trade secret.
I'm Peter Minter and I run the Bournemouth Brick and Tile Company on the South of Essex
border.
We've, as a family, been here since 1936, but the works itself goes back much earlier
to the 1450s.
Since 1974, I've specialized in making special types of bricks for restoration, and that's
grown now into a very specialist niche.
They can range from the different periods going back to Tudor times right through to
Victorian brick for the Gothic revival at the end of the last century, and even modern
bricks for that matter.
We make bricks today in the traditional manner.
The techniques have been used since man first started to work clay.
We take the clay from our pit face and we mix it with water, and then it's taken to
the maker's table and made individually by hand into a brick.
And the bricks can depend entirely on the requirements necessary, the different shapes
and varieties that we get asked for.
Many of the jobs are quite unusual in that they are individual and quite unique, be it
part of Hampton Court or something for Hatfield House, we've been doing some work there recently,
or maybe on the local church where there's a small amount of work which is quite unique.
Certainly the private individual comes to us regularly and we may make as few as one
brick.
Brick is then dried and it's during the firing that the colours change and we get the lovely
colours and textures that you see today.
The bricks we make can be used virtually for anything, for building a house, for the decoration
of the house, it can be used in the garden as an ornament.
In fact the range is infinite and really can be used to the depth of your imagination.
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The Victorians weren't afraid of strong color.
But more recently we've played it safe with mushroom and magnolia.
But if Graham and Maxine Walsh's kitchen is anything to go by, things are changing.
Last week interior designer Peter Plaskett had suggested brown granite for Maxine's work
tops but she wasn't convinced.
Okay, I'll trust your judgment.
I've spent a lot of time with Peter actually as a designer but also as a friend and we
did argue quite a bit on his preferences and mine simply because he had more experience
and guidance in color and texture.
I tend to stick to the same stuff and Peter tried to introduce me to other things and
I wouldn't have it.
Once it was actually in and we've seen it, it is a case of oh I told you so I didn't
turn, I've had to bite my lip and say yes she was right.
It's a beautiful piece of granite.
As well as saving money on the carcasses we also went to auction and we got the cooker
and hob there and we always look down the evening post and the auction post for different
auctions that are going to be on for any bargains.
We're always going to have a browse round just to see.
The thing about knocking the hole in the wall is the fact that you can still see into the
kitchen as soon as you walk into the dining kitchen area now you can see the range, you
can see all the features in the kitchen so I think we've struck quite a happy compromise
there.
Now it was time to think about the color scheme.
The thing that Peter did is he actually gave me a point to start at, right you like red,
let's go and look at materials that include red and he actually started introducing all
these colors and things you would never have chose.
Now I really like this, it's a lot more punchy is that one.
It's vibrant is that one but I'm not a big lover of the yellow in that.
I suppose the reds just maybe a little bit too, we've gone from one extreme to the other.
It's a bit too bright and I think really this is what we should be going for because all
the colors that we discussed before like the crimsons we've got some purples coming in
here, we've got a nice rich ochre.
I think there's enough color in there to sort of pull out on all the other things like the
unix and the walls.
And I like that for the dining room.
What would you sort of put, wallpaper or, right I'll show you a paper that I've pulled
out to sort of go without coloring.
You see once you start getting these and you sort of fold the things over the top you know
you get the colors coming through and we've got other colors that we can
work with in the other room.
And again once you start introducing all the colors that are in there and then there's
those the whole thing starts tying in.
I'd have never started planning with such vibrant colors as this and then just picking
them out.
I'd have started with it if all had been a cranberry curtain.
But to actually think of using colors within a checker pan.
I love checks and I think this is so nice because some checks you tend to lose the colors
whereas this is so definite colors.
They're the real blocky caters.
Graham and Maxine have chosen ash wood work tops to complement the granite.
A good designer should listen to the clients and then guide them in the right direction
to achieve what they want.
And plus it makes our job much more interesting otherwise each job that you do would end up
all the same.
I think if we could sort of you know do them alternative like the check.
Yeah because I won't be able to pick which color I want it so yeah we'll put both of
them in I think.
I think that'll look quite good it's a little bit different as well isn't it.
Perfect you can't get much closer than that.
And then if we paint the units something like these sort of colors I think it's all going
to come together really well.
Graham and Maxine had bought low price standard kitchen units and pine doors which they were
going to customize with color.
It's the yellow of the fabric so we've gone for that tone there.
The surface must first be keyed with fine sandpaper.
It's only going to take about five minutes for the door to rub them down.
Right this is the top coat color.
I'll show you that.
Now as you can see looking over the top isn't quite the same shade and what you need to
do in strong colors like this is to use the correct undercoat.
So you can't just use a white undercoat.
No you wouldn't end up with this color which we're trying to achieve.
And in.
Don't worry about that because we're going to give it a light rub down before we put
the eggshell on so anything like that will disappear anyway.
Even up to sort of two days ago I was still looking at the tiles and thinking are the
tiles going to go with the covers and is this paper going to go with that.
I tend to be a little bit conservative in the fact that you know when it's done it's
going to look alright but it's not going to break any sort of new ground or anything for
us but you know when you see it all sort of pulled together it makes such a vast difference.
I mean I love it now.
And I'm like yeah of course it will Graeme yeah it'll be fine it'll be lovely wonderful
and I'm holding my breath thinking I hope it comes together.
I still get up in the morning come down and I still can't believe that this is our house
and this beautiful room and all the rest of it is all ours.
It's quite a it is a buzz in town.
It's hard to believe.
It's like feeding the five thousand to stalled on a minute.
So after two months hard work at last the kitchen was looking good but how much did
it all cost?
The range cost £120 to sound blast.
The tiles £100.
The joinery for the plate rack and customising of units cost £300.
The kitchen unit carcasses were £524 and the doors cost £454.
The ash wood work tops cost £305 and the granite £40.
The hob at auction cost £270.
The cooker £576.
The sink cost £110 and the taps £92.
Which meant they were just under £50 below their budget of £3000.
But they were running out of energy and budget so they're currently living without a floor
covering in the kitchen and have yet to finish the doors for the units.
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Well that's all for this week.
But before we go, a nice quiet finishing touch from Linda Barker.
Bye bye.
Tonight's finishing touch shows you how to transform a simple table lamp using Decoupage,
the art of decorative paper cutouts.
You will need a plain white fabric lampshade.
Now select an image.
Good sources of inspiration are illustrated books, printed fabric and wrapping paper.
Make enough photocopies of your chosen image to cover the lampshade.
Next, using a cold tea wash, tint the lampshade and the photocopies.
Leave to dry.
Then cut around the selected images.
Plan the layout.
Using PVA glue, carefully stick down the paper cutouts onto the lampshade.
Finish with a coat of acrylic matte varnish.
Leave to dry.
Then simply light up and enjoy.