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Finishes are completed on the 1800's Federalist home in Charleston, South Carolina, and the interior design is underway as the owners finally move in from the carriage house.
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Interior Decorating

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" Betsy Johnson our homeowner you've been feeling happy -- and -- yes. Exciting day when you can move into a house like this it really that well -- would interrupt your furniture placement. The room is really beautiful the color is that you picture terrific tell me about these yellow."

" These schools well and I'm not you Bob we're gonna call this the logo is if we are. We're starting with the base. Gold and we cut -- Japan. Making the trim on the door and above a little dark room yeah if you don't important and we cut it from the wall yet. And then we kind of won -- town for some trim work up Obama to his."

" 5050 if you cut them why. Right that's great way to do it yet. And 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 and."

" Well we had been patty Hanna did a great job she did anything wonderful. She worked with these little involves whether we're missing the them all on hand. And particularly it and he owned and she did all of this -- She didn't have a mold she had threatened to go by."

" Let campus leave it. Good work tell me about this what is well that's helpful and had a chain attached to it that went down to a series of bells and in the house and it. -- dining room table they could call up whatever they want to bring -- up in this living up to borrow and the last time I saw you working here you had a gas mask on and you were busy witness -- quality do this is -- Colonial yes annual removing paint from the."

" I worked on that along time at -- resting though I have to be honest and patty -- that. And she did the rest I worked around the man yet and she picked up and finished room yeah."

" Welcome the great work. Well Betsy what we let you finish pleasing your furniture should we take a look at the kitchen let's cut out making them OK all right. That is yellow -- all of -- except in the rooms back here right in the library the green in the library really. Will be covered up partially by the books when they're installed. And the floors have been. They've been whacked. But underneath the wax -- tunnel now this is new southern yellow line -- This is yet know aren't exactly heart of the yellow -- so we try to make make max mill were hardwood floors and -- CD. But the finish will be copied also on the Cyprus. On the bookcase and so let -- we want to thank you well it now it'll become adult will be up behind -- golden color convoy going to be finishing neat stuff -- on the edges are gonna get a detailed molding out of Cyprus as well -- or they got a lot of books phase in this library I mean twelve foot high priced right -- it looking well I guess physician accumulates a lot of a lot of thought for office take a look at the kitchen. Which again into an interstate shade of green that she's chosen -- was picked up from the the granite countertops. So far the lightest color it's agree green -- very wrong. On the home -- kitchen including all these cabinets and these are all built on site. Right and it's really the doors her plywood with applied moldings and and he gets crafted basically every square foot of kitchen space writes that the windows which were salvaged from an older building yet. What's happening here well we're putting face on this refrigerator and it's simply a piece recorder and they want plywood -- And now we're applying all the moldings. And that's simply slide right they slide right -- And then continued trimming off with that'll create the rails had sort of match the other door exactly. Very nice work. And of course the rest of vulnerabilities just a couple of weeks ago with -- yourself to death windows what's in here. And that's just the job built spiced -- we can -- here. Spice containers and there on a slant so they're easy to see if so clever and so look so much for important. -- How about this this looks antique that came from an old house in Charleston that was. Probably torn down and the -- bottom salvage yard didn't you can still find lots of treasures in this town and this of course is a good example of that. What -- table conference. While the Johnson that have access to build them kitchen table and we're going to use some of the salvage boards that we've gotten from the house to great idea and I'm told that I could show them a good example this with a table my bottom and I built about fifteen years ago how to salvage wood out of old woods and it's a kind of a simple look colonial style it is a perfect kitchen table yeah very nice let me turn in the dining look at. Hey Betsy this is gorgeous behind you know this is just fabulous. Now did you do a lot of confidence -- did you already have so much and."

" I -- you're welcome the back house we brought these things fall. They're very very pretty and of course the ruling is shining with us. This yellow gold paint."

" Well I think the color worked well in here didn't take it throughout the whole dance -- yet."

" And you restore everything one of these Rosetta and every single one the campus leaves at all the detailing on the mantelpiece. And what about -- your fire equipment to do happen."

" practice that in Charleston that's an English -- right this here yes. And then this is what they call the offender and that's around 179 practicing else beautiful."

" This is indecent to Bob we found that when we were refinishing board this is actually mahogany inland. Around the marble park there you ended up as negatives aren't stop."

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