Drawing Room Paint

After much thought, I’d finally settled on a Farrow & Ball cream colored paint for the drawing room.  As prep work was beginning, we were astonished to find that there was only one coat of paint over the original. And just as the painters began to sand and steel wool off the old layer, the original green paint that Bottomley and his wife had chosen in 1929, to my great delight, began to peek its way through.  Gratefully, we found it to be in remarkably good condition, and decided to keep it.

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After going over the entire room with steel wool, and making a few touch-ups to the original color, and the paint color with a slight hint of the original, the result was truly remarkable.  Now, the wood work’s color peaks through the original paint ever so slightly, creating a room of beauty, interest, and history.  There is a sense here that the house was somehow telling me what it wanted, because after seeing this, it simply could not be any other way.