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Charleston, SC interior designer Carolyn Griffen gives Bob a final tour of the I'On project house. Guy Walters gives details on the Thomasville Hemingway collection.

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" Charleston interior designer Carolyn Griffith has done all of the rooms in the house. Two big house right yes so I can't wait to see everything but this is pretty stunning piece furniture."

" Off and Q I wanted to use this it's. Charleston -- circus seventeenth hanging up. And it sounds strange inlaid mahogany can open yes of course."

" But it's a desk top."

" Butler's desk. Look at that. And we have the green felt coming yeah that's storage."

" Beautiful so you make a statement right as you come into the house that it's a refined. Collection of furniture -- Alec and Charleston growth slows -- great job I was wondering what you were gonna do about the mantelpiece. This. It's a very bold statement in a room like this not a huge room."

" Well it it think the feelings. Our our tall fiction fictional yet gracious and and in this man in this rumford fireplace could carry. In this -- spring and around the builder. When -- petition. And what about the courses throughout the room. Kevin and I wanted to add the crown molding to get the house a plantation feel welded it to be understated. Beautiful elegant."

" What's really unique is this southern pine -- that strong grain and reclaimed heart yeah when you have a around the whole room it just really. Does something it's it's torch that -- is now in this is awfully nice -- nothing like having magnolia greens. I don't know because big fireplace like this are often when you don't have a fire going in the summer it's it's nice to have that. I don't orient there greenery goes along."

" This is Tom. Butler's desk with bookshelf or -- plantation correct OK and it's circa 1820. We would like to think it's Charleston it's probably New York. I love the -- me through drawers play off -- panel the real thing."

" The maple drawers side it's gorgeous so that's that's a happy coincidence or something you planned it. Happy coincidence when -- and I like mixing stuff that here you've got a Chippendale chair next to an American. Desk and throughout the room there are other touches too numerous to mention but I gotta talk about these golden lamps on the about the."

" I found in the artisan district in Florence I found a little shop that sells the lamps. And John and I brought them back and down the street analysts wonderful Italian man who makes these latest -- they're parchment. And they're on usual and."

" They are and there they just do the job they block the glare yes and cover the -- involved. And then it did the bases are all just gilded wood very pretty. Now I know that all the upholstered furniture in here from Thomasville right correct and I believe guy Walters is in the dining room really -- Don't you think they'll lay out here is clever though you've got all this transition space between the living room and the dining room nice broad hall a back hall closet. And how do you like this Kohler vanity with that beautiful antique look to the cabinets there and did as a -- the solid done. -- saying -- wow. Now this. I know it's new furniture this for -- for the life of me it all looks like southern antiques."

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