Item description for Painted Ladies - San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians Paperback Book

This happy, gloriously colorful book celebrates the unique collection of Victorian houses in San Francisco--houses of such highly eclectic architectural charm that they can only best be described as being of the San Francisco Style. The great photographs show us, and the delightful text and captions tell us, how San Francisco's Painted Ladies have enjoyed an astonishing renaissance. Photographs of the colorful and eccentric Victorian architecture of San Francisco. 80 pages; color photos throughout; 10.8 x 8.5 inches. I was getting ready to paint my Victorian and I was looking for inspiration. This is loaded with eye-candy. Just what I needed. I used it simply as a visual reference to determine what I liked and didn't like for color combinations and bright versus dark. I ended up going with a color scheme that was bold instead of subtle. There are enough different ideas in this book, I was able to mark all the ones I really like...then my husband chose the ones he really liked. After that we started working on our own color selections based on what we had picked out of this book and others.

In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details. The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians. Although polychrome decoration was common in the Victorian era, the colors used on these houses are not based on historical precedent. Since then, the term has also been used to describe groups of colorfully repainted Victorian houses in other American cities, such as the Charles Village neighborhood in Baltimore; Lafayette Square in St. Louis; the greater San Francisco and New Orleans areas, in general; Columbia-Tusculum in Cincinnati; the Old West End in Toledo, Ohio; the neighborhoods of McKnight and Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts; and the city of Cape May, New Jersey. They also exist internationally, for example in New Zealand's capital city Wellington.

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