The Clock Room
I love to curl up in one of the winged chairs and read in this room. The east gardens and the view of the park across the street creats a fairyland where you can escape into the book you are reading.
Originally, the doorway to the left of the fireplace was to a sitting porch over the east gardens. When it was converted into a duplex, this was enclosed and made into a small bedroom and full bathroom, providing batheing facilities on the first level. The chimney remained exposed as an exterior chimney.
Doorway that once was just an exterior window.
On the right side of the fireplace was a wall with an exterior window from the living room. The exposed fireplace and exterior window remained as such throughout the transformations through the years. George removed the window and created a doorway providing a walking pattern through the clock room that you could access the room from either doorway. Walls and plumbing were removed and a flush wall built over the fireplace to create a solid wall where the chimney had been exposed.
View of the interior wall covering chimney
and the housefront picture window installed.
The floor had to be entirely leveled and replaced. The walls had been poorly plastered and painted and so were replastered and wallpapered. The baseboards throughout the room were installed with matching Honduras mahogany, and the ceiling plastered frescoed. Recessed ceiling light fixtures were installed. A doorway to the right of the fireplace was created to provide traffic flow through this room, framed in Honduras mahogany to match the other passageway. A large window was installed in the front of the room to provide light and to enjoy the view of the park from this room. It currently hosts George�s collection of clocks and is used as a reading area.
At one time it was an idea to put French doors leading to the outside garden, however, once completed it was realized that it would take away from its coziness and become a walk-through rather than a room of its own.
Clock Room interior.
Original doorway from the livingroom.
Ceiling fresco - three of five ceiling lights.
This was another room that George�s decorating ideas just didn�t work out the way he expected. He went out and bought wallpaper and upon giving it to his wallpaperer he was advised that he wouldn�t be happy with it. George insisted it was his favorite wallpaper in the whole world. His wallpaperer went ahead and wallpapered using the paper George wanted. After it was up George absolutely hated it. Three days later, down it came! After that experience, George decided he wasn't very good at selecting wallpaper and rounded up a resource of women and worked with his wallpaperer to help him select wallpaper for each of the rooms.
This room does not have a basement beneath it as it was an extension to the house. When the flooring was done, the floor boards that connect to the house flooring in the doorways were installed in such a way that they shrink and expand to allow for the temperature differences.
Going back through the Living Room will take you directly through the pocket doors to the Dining Room.
Tiarabella's Formal Dining Room
Let's have a sit down dinner!