" Now this has to be the most ornate ceiling. Anywhere in the house right well it is indeed with a solid leads me anything die and you can't just -- the rococo scrolling and that's just in the cornice part of it. Yes and that actually it's a motif that the us and we carried. Through different homes that they constructed in fact -- you can find that -- motif and Grand Central station in New York City on the ceiling because the Vanderbilt family built Grand Central as a gift for the city New York. In the real question is whether it was the same builders that went from property to property. Actually this was the last addition to the house from 1910. How did this survive fifty years of -- house being shut down not heated and vandalized fairly well we got lucky -- again I think it was high. One of the things that we faced was that large portions of the ceiling while intact had separated from the support which held it up in the air from the map. We got lucky that they didn't actually fall on the ground and in smashing. But one of the concerns was that as we Jack it into place would it stay up or would it fall and so we scaffold of the floor and used house jacks and epoxy is between jacket underneath the plaster ceiling. And push it in the usually back into place and it held in -- house and what about the paint had the paint all peeled off in the cold it took months to get them old paint off. To keep and retain the original details without either destroying the details or making them so murky now you were responsible for a lot of the decoration of the house and and most people don't think about putting the dark color on the ceiling and the light color on the walls you got white walls and the beautiful kind of yellow for the ceiling."

" Yes and I didn't throw a couple of reasons one was to bring. Bring the room down a bit visually to -- little more comforting. But also all because of the how the sun exposure that we get into the room. If we were to have a white or a bright ceiling would actually lose a lot of the details they architectural details. That are in the ceiling and make room so special during a large portion of the day fabulous."

" Now you've got historic photographs of the room -- agenda on the table here yes and this is this terrific book that really shows a lot of the interiors of the summer cottages here in Lenox by Edwin hale Lincoln so can we look. And what's here I mean there's this fantastic feeling and there's. You know than the mantelpiece at the -- and are any of the original furnishings still here."

" Well we indeed have two chairs the original armchairs. One time there were 38 chairs with the that completed the set but we do have two armchairs that are still existing which is really nice to have and."

" 38 am I supposed. Great grandma would have big dinner party yes indeed you know or one long table yeah. And the stories in the family are that there was one footman behind every chair and and when. My great great grandmother was done eating. All of the food was removed from the table the same time Somalis 37 if you started or not that it's very fast -- and and now you've refurnished it with like a half dozen individual seating groups round tables and then you can still set up a big table in the middle here what's what you're thinking."

" Exactly well I'm. With this being a home -- bed and breakfast and so. The gas have their breakfast in here it's for the -- and also when we have funds a lot of about brides and grooms are going to get married here and have gotten married here and this is one of the rooms that they utilized for the formal dining exactly where did you where would you go shopping for chairs like this sanity these are new bought new made right yes they aren't really made down. Acquired a lot of pieces somewhat from around different places in the United States but also I've gone to England as well -- it's been an international search and he's the best way to put it any."

" Well this certainly looks like -- the the crown of Windsor or whatever up at the top and the crest and everything."

" Object but getting back to the construction Bob. The -- the original windows and was everything vandalized I mean did you have to put new windows and hear what. The windows were boarded up when we got here -- large gaps there was actually standing water on the floor at various times of the year in hand. -- as windows were broken it would be Reid boarded. And many of the actual sashes were destroyed yeah and our crew has done a wonderful job with salvaged wood and also four by four cedar. Has ripped down. Sad situation that are original look original men of course are random which you put in thermal glass in all this we have the existing frames. We did rout out to accommodate the thicker glass that's great and it's been a lifesaver when when gloves and of course we're looking west at what is. The Stockbridge bowl right. That's correct the Stockbridge bowl and quite a nice view of many of the Berkshire hills script. It's a magnificent room I don't think we can leave it without at least commenting on me in the marble mantelpiece them. What do we know about this. When Emerson beautiful motifs on it originally a lot of beautiful Klein's growing oh in bronze you mean it would have been stripped off by vandals. Yes indeed yep I see that."

" And this point and daddies and -- were also original to the house and had been in storage and so weak have placed them here. And then this tapestry was a piece actually from the 1860s that we acquired when we were living in New Orleans. And that's when we. We're very luckily it was an almost a magical fit into this spot that once held something different."

" Just leave the room itself as we can see in the historic photograph once contained three very special tapestries exactly they -- And those are long gone."