Blinds and Curtains
An inventory of fittings in the house, drawn up before Dickens moved into Doughty Street, indicates that the drawing room windows were fitted with "3 Holland Spring Blinds" such as you see now. We know that Dickens retained this feature. He left the houe with "excellent blinds...fitted in every window." To these have been added unbleached cotton voile nets, characteristic of the period, and drapes, after a design of a contemporary encyclopaedia of interior design, in theatrical red silk such as the drama loving Dickens might have chosen.