" Betsy Johnson, our homeowner. You must be a very happy lady today?"

" I am, indeed I am."

" It's an exciting day when you can move in to a house like this."

" It really is."

" Yes. Well, I'm gonna interrupt your furniture placement."

" That's fine."

" The room is really beautiful. The colors that you've picked are terrific. Tell me about these yellows, these golds?"

" Well, in honor of you Bob, were gonna call this Villa Gold."

" Oh are you?"

" We are. We started with the base gold and we cut it in half making the trim on the door and above a little darker."

" Yes, I can see it up in the corners."

" And then we cut it for the wall."

" Yes."

" And then we cut it one more time for some trim work up above."

" So it's 50, 50 cut with white [unk]"

" Right."

" That's a great way to deal with it. Yes. And the, the, the ornamentation of the woodwork in the room as well as the cornice is so exquisite. You've been so lucky to have such great artisans in."

" Well, we have and Patty had, did a great job."

" She did. Patty did a wonderful job."

" She, she worked with these little balls. Well, they were missing, did them all by hand."

" Yes."

" And particularly down here on the end, she did all of this freelance. She didn't have a mold. She had something to go by."

" A little acanthus leaves. Yes. Good work. Tell me about this. What is this [unk]"

" Well, that's a bell pole and it had a chain attached to it that went down to a series of bells under the house so that while were eating at the dining room table, they could call up whatever they wanted."

" Or bring tea up to this living room."

" Yes."

" This parlor. Yes. Now the last time I saw you working in here, you had a gas mask on and you were busy with this, what do you call this detail?"

" This is [unk] ."

" [unk]."

" Yes."

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" And you were removing paint from it."

" I worked on that a long time. I, I went out of stain though, I have to be honest. And Patty picked up."

" And she did the rest of it out."

" I, I worked around of the mound."

" Yes. And she picked and finished the room for me."

" Yes. Well, she's done a great work. Well Betsy, why don't we let you finish placing your furniture in. Should we take a look in the kitchen?"

" Let's go."

" And I'll meet you in the dining room."

" Okay."

" Alright."

" Now this yellow is carried all throughout the house except in the rooms back here, right?"

" Right. And the library, the green in the library really will be covered up partially by the books when they're installed."

" Yes."

" And the floors have been, they've been waxed but underneath the wax is tung oil."

" Now this is new southern yellow pine."

" Right. This is a, yes. Yellow pine. It's actually a, a heart of the yellow pine. So we've tried to make, make it match the older hardwood floors in the house."

" Yes."

" But the finish will be copied also and the Cyprus in the book cases. So well let them put tung oil."

" So it will look shiny will it?"

" No. It'll become a dull, it'll be a, a honey golden color. Tung oil them."

" Are you gonna be finishing these off with, with mold?"

" All the edges are gonna get a, a detailed molding out of Cyprus as well."

" Yes."

" Boy, they've got a lot of books facing this library. I mean, 12-foot high, right?"

" Right. 12 feet of book cases."

" Well, I guess a physician accumulates a lot of, a lot of books. Let's take a look at the kitchen which again is a, an interesting shade of green that she's chosen."

" The green was picked up from the, the granite countertops. So------"

" Sure."

" this the lightest color."

" It's a grey green."

" Yes."

" It works very well on the whole, on the whole kitchen including all these cabinets. Now these are all built on site."

" Right."

" And it's really the doors are plywood with applied moldings."

" Yes."

" And, you guys have crafted basically every square foot of kitchen space right?"

" Except the windows that we've salvaged from an older building."

" Yes. What's happening here?"

" Well, were putting the face on this refrigerator."

" Yes."

" And it's simply a piece of 14-inch long plywood. "

" There it is. Yes."

" And were applying all of the moldings."

" Yes."

" And it'll simply------"

" It actually slide right in."

" slide right in. And then------"

" Then, then you trim it off with------"

" Yes. That'll create the [unk]------"

" [unk] on the edge."

" so to match the other doors."

" Exactly. Very nice work. And of course the rest of the, we were building these just a couple of weeks ago."

" Yes."

" With your salvaged windows. What's in here?"

" That's just a [unk] built spice rack where you can just put all of your spice containers in there on a slant so they're easy to, to see."

" That's so clever. That's so clever. There's so much room for you. Here you go. How about this? This looks antique."

" That came from an old house in Charleston that was probably torn down and the Johnson's bought it at a salvage yard."

" Yes. You can still find lots of treasures in this town."

" Yes."

" And this of course is a good example of that. Where did this table come from?"

" Well the Johnson's have asked us to build them a, a kitchen table. "

" Yes."

" And were gonna use some of the salvaged boards that we've gotten from the house."

" It's a great idea."

" And I told them that I could show them a good example. This was a table my father and I built about 15 years ago."

" Yes."

" Out of salvaged wood."

" Out of old wood."

" And it's a, kind of a simple corn mill style table. It's a perfect kitchen table. Yes. Very nice."

" Let's meet her in the dining room."

" Okay."

" Hey Betsy. This is gorgeous."

" Well, thank you."

" This is just fabulous. Now did you do a lot of shopping for this room or did you already have so much antique furniture?"

" Well, from the back house, we brought these things forward."

" Yes. Yes. They're very, very pretty. And of course, the room is shining with this, this yellow gold paint."

" Well, I think the colors work well in here."

" Yes."

" We took it throughout the whole downstairs."

" Yes. And she restored every single one of these rosettes and every single one of these acanthus leaves and all of the detailing on the mantle piece. And what about your, your fireplace equipment, did you have that?"

" We purchased that here in Charleston. That's a, an English coal grate."

" This here?"

" Yes."

" And then this is what they call a fender."

" A fender and that's around $17.90. Purchased here also."

" Beautiful."

" This is interesting too Bob. We found this when were refinishing the floor. This is actually a mahogany inlay around the marble heart. Very unusual."

" Pretty unusual [unk] isn't it?"

" It is, it is. High style."