Trăisteni household, Prahova county, sec. the nineteenth
Originating at the foot of the Baiului Mountains, Dinu Radu Costea's household from Trăisteni was brought in the Village Museum in 1936, being representative for the Prahova County folk architecture of the 19th century. In the area, the main occupations inhabitants were cattle and sheep husbandry, forest working, orcharding and wagonage.
The house is built on a high stone base, with walls made of wood beams, plastered and whitewashed, and a hipped roof with beech shingle covering. The veranda that surrounds the house has on the main façade, a fretted parapet and a side porch asymmetrically placed that protects the entrance to the basement. The dwelling plan has two rooms, one on each side of the foyer. In both rooms, one can note the elegant silhouettes of the masonry stoves: the cookstove in the living room and the stove with recess and alcove in the guest room.
Characteristic for the Prahova dwelling interior is the usage of cotton towels and handkerchiefs, embroidered with red and black dyed cotton in compositions based on ancient motifs. They form the “wheel of the house”, being displayed around the walls, close to the ceiling. The main furniture items (beds, tables, chairs, peg racks, dowry chests) are made by local masters with great virtuosity, being adorned with incised, carved or grooved geometric motifs. Specific for the house are also the items related to shepherding: the brass bells, the shears, the milk buckets, the moulds for cheese, the alpenhorn wrapped in cherry tree bark and the reed pipe.
In addition to the dwelling, the household includes just one annex: the pen for pigs and poultry.
