" The landscaping around the backside of the mansion is nearly complete, and because we're right on the edge of a busy city street, they've chosen to put in a lot of these American Hollies, which when they mature, will get to be about to be 15 or 20 feet high and really screen the mansion. From this vantage point, you can get a good shot of the completed addition to the mansion, which is a 3-storey masonry affair that includes an accessible elevator. One thing that's really cool is that the porch that the architect designed incorporates a concrete slab that has been poured right as a roof but it's at the same line as the water table of the antique house, so that when you see it from certain vantage points, it really disappears. It's a lot better than having a gabled roof or something like that. And then, of course, the family is moving in, you could see some of the rubbish of moving is already in place. Let's go around the front of the house and we'll get together with John Paul Hanbury, the architect. Hey John Paul."

" Hey Bob."

" Wow, this is really coming together. This is great. You know, I wasn't very enthusiastic about the red, gray, and black carpet that you were talking about, but this really, really looks beautiful."

" Thank you. Yeah."

" And the gray, throughout the spaces, you know, when you think gray, you wonder, isn't gonna be a little drab, but it really is magical with the mahogany and stuff coming in."

" Well, it's historically correct. We picked all of the colors of the historic colors in the other rooms, brought it out into the hall, adjust it a little bit for other things we wanted to do and the good thing is we have this historic blue, which we reinstituted."

" So the blue in the baseboard"

" Yes."

" We know is a historic document color."

" And it segways very nicely into the room beyond."

" But here, look at when this piece comes into the room. The mahogany and the gilding and everything really stand out against the neutral grays of the walls. And then the other thing is the wood work."

" Well, it just highlights, it proves very bland before, sort of off white and cream and now we have a contrast."

" Yes. Cream is out, gray and white is in. It's beautiful. It's just coming together beautifully."

" This is an exciting point in any job, when the movers bring all the good stuff back but it hasn't been put in place yet."

" Exactly."

" And Barbara Page, who is the interior designer on the project."

" Hi. Hi."

" How are you?"

" Fine. Thank you."

" So, you're not going to put it here out yet."

" No, not yet."

" Yeah. Now, tell me a little bit about how you arrived at the color schemes for the furniture and everything else for this room?"

" Well, it started of with this document border."

" The blue that we're just talking about on the baseboard?"

" Exactly. It comes in from the foyer, so that color, is such a regal color for a ballroom, we then picked it."

" Now this is what we're looking at in the perimeter of the ballroom."

" Right."

" Which is wallpaper border, right?"

" Right."

" And that's what you see up there now and then you went from there to all of these fabrics?"

" Right. The wool merino and then of course the scrape leaf here picks up and is repeated in our border around the room."

" So, these are all documentary."

" These are all document."

" Historic patterns then of course."

" Exactly."

" And of course the draperies and we'll be looking at that a little bit later."

" Right."

" So, what do you have under here?"

" This is the summer dress. This is the glazed chance that will recover these wools that might be a little heavy in the summer, this will be cool and light and the furniture will covered with this."

" So, it's not a dress you're gonna wear?"

" No it's not."

" It's not an 18th century fashion wear."

" Right."

" To cover things up for the summer."

" Yes, you did."

" For the summer. Well, I can't wait to see that. And this of course is one of the tougher parts, right John Paul? I suppose we should give him a hand."

" Yeah."

" Putting up with the big room mirror."

" Mirror are going back up."

" Yeah, and they of course, have already pre-measured and pre-drilled up on the wall, where they've got their shields in place and I glad I am not standing under that. Nice job."