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Tour of the Interior Design Upstairs

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" -We are on the second floor landing. Our friend Carolyn Griffith, an interior designer, has accessorized and furnished all the rooms up here including the landing. But let's start off in this bedroom, which we visited a couple of weeks ago when the gold was being applied to the walls, and here she is putting a suite of bedroom furniture from Thomasville which I believed the line is called Martinique, and has that real substantial look of 19th century furniture. I'm told that it's inspired by the Louis Philippe designs, but the dark wood [0:00:30] really work nicely with this gold. They help to control it. And then of course the bed itself is what they call a sleigh bed with its nice kind of curve finished to it, very, very handsome. Then, she's put in lots of flowery pastels and good colors of contrast with the gold. In the master bath in here, we've got an interesting kind of addition, as it as work. It's very spare in there but she got the same kind of dainty towels and then a heavy object like that silver box from India. [0:01:00] And what I like about this room is the tile floor. It's ceramic tub but it has the look of old French Limestone pavers. And then throughout the room, all the windows are treated with these great shutters from our friends here at Withers Industries, and these are all offerable and they really make a statement 'coz it's such a Southern thing I think to have these beautiful shutters. The hall shows a nice collection of a kind of assembled pieces that might have been inherited in the house, an old Chester Drawers, a beautiful Audubon [0:01:30] print of woodpeckers, a new glass bowl, gorgeous antique, I don't know if they're Georgian or Chip n' Dale but they look like they could be Southern or Irish, I got to find out. But they're just a beautiful chairs paired with a contemporary reproduction again from Thomasville. In this bedroom, we actually have a story that's like it's a little den, [0:02:00] or it's a little home office. Both of the small bedrooms up here have been furnished as if it they were gonna used for office space. And again, you've got an interesting focal point. This piece of furniture that's a semi-circle, a planters desk, also a kind of shape of a hunt table, but it looks like an antique. It's not. These are all reproductions. I love the chairs which I think are out of the Hemingway Collection. Well down the hall, there is another bedroom again. We will look at that in a second. And a full bathroom here which is done in a gray marble tile floor with the gray fixtures from color [0:02:30] And this terrific one piece acrylic shower which comes with all these shiny brass fittings. And what I like about this one is that the back wall has this contour shape, so that you can just have lie back in there and have a hot shower. Then opposite it, we've got a double lavatory vanity and again we got gray paired with nice granite, shiny brass, and then we've got the mahogany in the cabinet. They are all very elegant and is very reminiscencen of 19th century kind of designs. And let's look in here [0:03:00] And this room is set up almost like a little hideout where you go relax, take a nap on the [unk], read a book or whatever, hide. And, she has chosen lots of items, accessories, furniture, fabrics, and everything that make you feel like you are in the garden room, the pattern, the leaves, even the accessory tables like this one, it's kinda like a magazine rack. It's a new. It's a reproduction of Bamboo furniture but it really works nicely in this room and then this is kind of really neat, cause if you do want to work here this is a stand up desk. [0:03:30] Its..."

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