Edwardia has been authentically restored right down to the soft light, cloudy paint effect of Edwardian lime-wash,  recreated using a uniquely modified modern paint.

An Edwardian Entrance

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The entrance to Edwardia Short-stay
 The internal and decorative features of Edwardia  are in the style of the Arts and Crafts movement.   ln keeping with the period the entrance houses a hall-stand, barometer, dinner gong and regulator wall clock.

 Starting from the entrance Edwardia  includes evidence of the place of Australia within the British Colonial Empire South-east Asia and China.   The  paper mache urn in front of the stairs comes from the Indian Empire  and is decorated with miniatures of  Mughul emperors Akbar, Auranazeb  and others.  

Above and between the doorway next to the stairs you will see Chinese artefacts  that represent the importance of  Chinese immigration during Victoria's gold-rush.

And above the lowest stairs section  the Beardsley print  and Edwardian opera poster prints  are reminders  that the Edwardian period followed directly after the French Impressionist revolution in art.

 Edwardia's Stairwell

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Edwardia's Stairwell window
From the first stair turn  the marvellous stain-glass window  looms above . The Arts and Crafts ideal was for beauty and functionality to combine harmoniously. Thus, this window and the casement windows in the upstairs drawing room have understated Art Nouveau designs  that do not impede  incoming sunlight.
Also in Arts & Crafts style, much of Edwardia's furniture is oak.
Beneath the stairwell window and in the James Dawson room there are reproductions of some of John Gould's  600 Australian bird prints, originally executed between 1840 and 1848.
As you turn away from the window there are more reminded of  Asian influences on Edwardian Australia.

The Upstairs Hall-way

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At the top of the stairs to the right above the alcove you will see  several Australian aboriginal implements. The shield is made from red-gum and covered with incised ancestral designs.  

The remaining walls of the lower hallway display early paintings  of   the Heidelberg School of Impressionist painters incIuding  Louis Buvelot, Tom Roberts  and Frederick McCubbin.   The Buvelot print is of Wannon Falls, which is accessible from Edwardia via the North-western Day trip.

 On the right hand wall of the upper hallway there are three paintings of early Melbourne.

 In contrast, the left hand wall has a series of Japanese wood-block prints by Sharaku, reproduced on fabric.