Introductory audio played when entering the room (as at Mar2018)
The front bedroom was Kate Schram's room and it is furnished much as it would have been in her time. The four posted bed with painted flowers on each post and the valance at the top is Victorian in style and the focal point of the room. Most houses of Victorian period had no bathroom. The daily ablutions being carried out in the privacy of the bedroom. Jug and basin sets together with soap containers were often quite decorative always stood on a washstand. Towels were hung on a wooden towel rail. In the colder months, warm water would be carried from the kitchen stove and poured into the large basin.
Saturday night was usually bath night for the children. As people in those days had to rely on storage tanks for water, nothing was wasted. The same water was used for all the children.
There was no such thing as a built in furniture in Victorian times. Clothes were hung in wardrobe often when a mirror on the door. A chest of drawers provided much needed storage space for folded clothes. The small drawers where used for handkerchiefs as well as personal knick knacks.
At the foot of the bed is a large round hatbox more correctly known as a band box. This is where the ladies stored their hats.
Most of the children's clothes would have been made by Kate herself and she would have spent many hours at her sewing machine making dresses for the girls and outfits for the boys.
Transcription from Audio Presentation installed in the Schramm's Cottage museum (2018)
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