Many of the original 16th century features were still apparent-such as the old fireplace in the hall, the original doorways, and wainscotting-but they were " much disfigured " by alterations carried out some years beforehand to convert the manor to a farmhouse.
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The room today has a wall covering of vertically sriped red and gold fabric with a padded backing, which rises to meet the same fabric hung in a swag fashion outwards from a single coffer in the centre of the ceiling and trimmed around the perimeter of the room with a wainscotting.
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Most homes of the Federal period would concentrate colors in one room, giving a house a red room, blue room, etc . However, in the Vann House the colors have been mixed in almost every room, for a multi-color appearance, as well as on the mantels, doorjambs, and wainscottings, all of which are original to the house.
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He is credited with renewing the wainscotting, pews and pulpit in the Church . and a memorial in St Michael's Church records how he left his'large personal estate to pious uses', and his lands to his nephew, Thomas Thynne . and when Henry, the heir, died without sons in 1708, Thomas, who erected the Buckland monument, had become heir to the entire Longleat estate.
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The inside of the coat closet in the front hallway is still waiting for new baseboard to finish the hardwood flooring project ( the floor has been down for three years ), one section of the new wainscotting in the dining room has been patiently waiting for a coat of polyurethane since Christmas, and there's some wayward wallpaper paste on the ceiling near the front door that's been there, well, a long time.
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Some details, as outlined in the realtor's prospectus : the Living Room, ` sumptuously dressed in rich silk-covered walls above paneled wainscotting . ` The Library, ` reportedly duplicates the Oval Room of the White House in Washington, D . C . ` The Family Room, ` suitable for formal and informal entertaining, as are all the principal rooms, ` with ` French doors open to a large pool, spa and pool house beyond the
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Among them : 3, 500 tonnes of crystal 480 chandeliers, 1, 409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured; 700, 000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals; 900, 000 m 3 of wood ( over 95 % domestic ) for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore maple; 200, 000 m 2 of woolen carpets of various dimensions ( machines had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets ); velvet and brocade curtains adorned with embroideries and passementeries in silver and gold.
