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The home furnishing the house in early Australia.

In wandering through some of the houses owned by the National Trust of Australia with their pretty restored interiors I often wonder if that was actually how the rooms really looked or was it just a dream concept? Is it how we like to think the house appeared after it was built? An even more important question is what were the interiors like of houses occupied by people who were not quite so well of financially? We would like to know how the shop keepers and the tradesmen as well as poor workers of the colony rived and furnished their cottages. Did they have curtains beautifully draped over their windows or any curtains at all? Did they have carpets and did they have ...

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