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Sydney Worthington

Janet Ivey

Interior Design II

14 April 2017

England's Culture

England architecture and interior design has been very prevalent throughout the years. If

we didn't have people like William Kent and Robert Adams, we wouldnt have had these

advancements in the interior design world.

The English culture began in 4500-3000 BC when people began to settle in England.

Angles and Saxons were the first people to settle. England lies off the mainland of Europe,

between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. (British 18th century design)

England is renowned for its tea. This is because in Victorian times when travel was very

big in England they controlled the tead economy and because who doesn't love a good cup of

tea? Also, England is very well known for Big Ben, which was built in 1858. Big Ben is, in

fact ,the name of the bell. The tower is now being called Elizabeth tower after the current

monarch. The capital of England is London, you can find places

like Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Parliament,

Towers of London, St. Pauls cathedral, and many more place.

England has a very diverse culture nowadays, but once

upon a time they use to be very traditional. England's urbanism and

belfies of landscape and countryside are closely tied to the

movement of people and economic sectors from major

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metropolitan areas into new towns, extensions of older towns, and remote rural areas. Cities are

thought of as places of decay and degeneration by many people. The central principle in

definitions of urban communities is their management and containment; this has been done by

designating rings of non-development (green belts) areas around major cities and urban areas.

The emphasis on areas of there is no development also has influenced planning within cities and

towns, with space being created for private and public gardens, parks, athletic fields, and other

so-called greenfield sites. Many people to this day still believe that having less living space and

having more greenery is better for not only them, but also for the world. There has also been an

emphasis on arranging cities and towns in more livable units, with more thought to the placement

of work sites, public amenities, shopping areas, and dwellings and more of a focus on how

streets cater to public and private uses. America

needs to take note of what England is doing

because even though we have more land

doesnt mean we need to cover it all with

development areas. We need to preserve our

land, so we'll be able to enjoy this wonderful world of nature for longer.

England's styles has been very traditional throughout the years, but once the country

started to be more innovative in the late 2000s the interior style has dramatically changed for the

younger crowed as it has around the world. There's still many house to this day that are very

traditional, because it is very in and is amazingly done by the british. In the seventeenth and

eighteenth centuries England witnessed a remarkable transformation of daily life and domestic

decoration. International trade became very prevalent so more furniture would become available

for products and materials imported from continental Europe, the Far East, and North America.
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Increasing prosperity fueled demand for houses that were more comfortable and more elegant,

while patrons grew more sophisticated, architects better esteemed, and craftsmen capable of

realizing ever more ambitious designs.The architect Inigo Jones was instrumental in instilling a

more direct Italian classicism into English design. While traveling in Italy, he studied the

sixteenth-century villas of Andrea Palladio, and after his return to England, he found aristocratic

patrons. Palladio had applied the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture and interior

design to country houses, and Joness Palladian buildings did likewise. Both outside and in, such

examples as the Queens House at Greenwich display harmonious proportions, an august

formality, and a principled use of columns and classical moldings. After he designed/built the

Queens House he made a name for himself and everyone wanted this style of housing. He

created such a new way of designer to the English people at the times, because the british didnt

know or want to copy another country's design. (Wikipedia)

There isnt a big difference between American and British interior design. American

interior design is less formal, but still semi traditional. It really depends on where you live in the

United States, because we have such a variety of styles around America. British interior design is

very formal and grand/traditional. If you look at the interior design of a British room you see a

lot of grown molding, wallpaper, antiques, heavy

drapery, and grand chandeliers. Although

American houses are bigger all around the

country and England's houses are tiny, because

the uses of spaces is more efficiency. When the

British design a room they have a matchy-matchy

feel. The fabrics used throughout the room are used repeatedly throughout the room, while
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Americans often pick a couple of colors to carry out throughout a

space so its coordinated, but also shows that its not matchy-matchy

like the British. Also, floral prints, can be very key to the British

design.

I built a scaled model of a typical English bedroom with the

help of all the research I did. Before I started the building progress I

looked up the typical English house floorplan and looked through

many until I found the layout I liked the best. I then decided which

room I was going to pick and at the beginning I was set on doing a

living room, but I ended up building a bedroom. I sketched the the

bedroom which is 12 by 10 ft long on the scale with the wall

height as 8 ft tall on a piece of printer paper to get an idea of what

the room would end up looking like. I grabbed a form board so I

could start drawing the room out and I used my scale to get the

correct measurements of my room. I used the triangle to draw the lines to indicate where the

walls and floor would be in the bedroom. I then processed by grabbing my straight edge cutter

and track so I would be able to cut out the following room, once I got the room cutted out I used

the v-grooved the wall so my walls would be able to bend the right way. Once I got the walls to

bend the way I wanted them to, I used the glue gun so I would be able to get my walls to be able

to stand up by themselves. I used the popsicle sticks to create wood flooring like are seen in

homes in England, I cutted the popsicle sticks at all different lengths so they would look

realistically compared to hardwood flooring. I glued down the popsicle sticks with rubber

cement, because the sticks were so small and I didnt want to burn my fingers. After I completed
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the flooring, I realized that I need to use wallpaper to make the bedroom look like a true British

bedroom. I opened a word document and found a wallpaper online and copied the wallpaper over

and over again until it made a full sheet of wallpaper. I printed out the wallpaper and cutted it

with the paper cutter and measured it so it was the correct

size of the room. I then processed to glue the wallpaper to

the walls with rubber cement. While I waited for the

wallpaper to become completely dry I started on making my

bed, I used a piece of foam that I measured to be the size of

a English full size bed and used thin wood that I painted

white on the bottom of the bed and at the top of a bed to create a headboard. I used little pieces

of curved wood to create the footings for my bed to stand on. I used white fabric as the bedding

and pinched the ends of the fabric at the end of the bed to make it look like a real comforter. To

create the pillows I cut little pieces of foam and wrapped them in fabric, I glued the with a hot

glue gun, which I burnt myself during the process.To make the pillows stay on the bed I hot

glued them down to the bed/headboard. I cut a piece of fabric to create a rug on the flooring and

hot glued it down to the floor. To create night stands I used bottle cap which I painted white and

also painted around pieces of wood to be the stand of the night stand, and I hot glued the two

pieces together and glued down the two night stand on either side of the bed below the windows

which I rubber cemented down. When the two windows were up I used a toothpicks as the rods

for my curtains. To create the curtains I used tiny pieces of fabric and scrunched them together to

make them look like real curtains. For the lighting I used two of my earrings above the bed to act

as wall mounted lighting. Volia.

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As you can see there's more to England interior design. Ive know learned that their is

more thought put into the design for the British interior design. Whether it comes from the crazy

patterns or traditional feel that the designs give you. I can know really appreciate all the work

that has gone into other people's design and hopefully into my design in the future. The biggest

challenge I think about with the British interior design is that everything is so patterned I would

get a headache in the rooms, but I love how they look in photos. Im very glad that I picked

England for my culture room, because it has always been a place that I thought had the prettiest

rooms.