Trăisteni household, Prahova county, sec. the nineteenth
Coming from the foot of the Baiului Mountains, Dinu Radu Costea's household was brought to the Village Museum in 1936, being representative for the Prahovian folk architecture of the 19th century. In the area, the main occupations of the inhabitants were the growth of large cattle and sheep flocks, woodwork, fruit growing and caransia.
The house is built on a high stone foundation, with wooden beam walls and painted, and the roof is in four waters with beech shingles. The porch that surrounds the house has a railing of traffora planks and an asymmetrically arranged scraper that protects the entrance to the cellar. In the plane, the house comprises two rooms arranged on both sides of the tin. In both rooms, the elegant silhouettes of the brick stoves are noted: the one with cooking hob in the living room and the one with cotlon and firide from the guest room.
The specificity of the interior of the Prahovan dwelling is given by the use of cotton wipes and handkerchiefs, embroidered with red and black arnic in compositions based on ancient reasons. They form the "wheel of the house", being displayed around the walls, near the ceiling. The main pieces of furniture (beds, tables, chairs, nails, dowry boxes) are executed by the local craftsmen with great skill, being adorned with incised geometric motifs. Specific to the house are the objects related to the shepherd: the bells in the brass, the haircuts, the milking buckets, the shirt patterns, the cheese, the bucium wrapped in the cherry peel or the caval.
The household comprises, besides the house, a single household annex (cot for pigs and birds).
