Bronte sisters’ former home given a retro makeover
9 Feb 2013 7:56 AM IST
The former home of the three Bronte sisters, where British classics like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were written, has been returned to the design of the authors' era after researchers found fragments of its original decor.
The house, which is now a museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, reopens after a refurbishment on Friday. ‘It's closer than it's ever looked to how it would have done in the Bronte period,’ said Bronte Parsonage Museum collections manager Ann Dinsdale.
‘Charlotte put her stamp on the house, and there's quite a lot of colour,’ Dinsdale said. Researchers from the University of Lincoln examined sections of the walls, and in some places found 18 layers of paint and wallpaper dating back to the sisters' habitation in the mid-19th Century, BBC News reported.
‘They came up with the strata, all the layers of paints that had been used over the years in the parsonage and they were able to work out which was the Bronte period,’ Dinsdale said.
‘All the historic rooms, which are part of the original parsonage, have been completely redecorated,’ she said.
The house, which is now a museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, reopens after a refurbishment on Friday. ‘It's closer than it's ever looked to how it would have done in the Bronte period,’ said Bronte Parsonage Museum collections manager Ann Dinsdale.
‘Charlotte put her stamp on the house, and there's quite a lot of colour,’ Dinsdale said. Researchers from the University of Lincoln examined sections of the walls, and in some places found 18 layers of paint and wallpaper dating back to the sisters' habitation in the mid-19th Century, BBC News reported.
‘They came up with the strata, all the layers of paints that had been used over the years in the parsonage and they were able to work out which was the Bronte period,’ Dinsdale said.
‘All the historic rooms, which are part of the original parsonage, have been completely redecorated,’ she said.
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