Whether you're currently house hunting or simply like to be clued up on the history of your surroundings, learning how to differentiate between the architectural styles of the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian eras can be a surprisingly useful skill.
Living in London myself, there is no shortage of awe-inspiring properties, all of which come together to tell the story of the country's rich design history. But when describing these homes, their interior design trends and architecture are often flattened simply into the term 'period'. But this simplification of the historic architecture around us destroys the possibility for us to develop a true, nuanced understanding of what era these 'period features' actually belong to, blurring hundreds of years of design history into one indistinguishable category.
