What To Look For:

• The fleur-de-lys on the ceiling medallion and the windows adorned in an Elizabethan style.
• The 100-year-old arched door, originally built for a church.
• The unique two-column portcullis bookcase, designed and built especially for the room.
• The hand-made suit of armor, created in an Italian-Germanic style by armourer Robert McKenzie.
• Lochman Manor is a 42 room English Tudor mansion, built in the middle of the past century. This magnificent Hillsborough property has been used as a designer showcase prior to this decorator show house.
• The new home owner desired a library/office for her husband. She described it as "castlely". I do hope what you see does remind you of the days long gone in Camelot.
• The fluer-de-lys hand painted canvas is taken from Pindler & Pindler's Hearst Castle Collection which is shown as sofa pillows and repeated in the custom rug.
• The Elizabethan style draperies are my rendition of the period style dresses worn. A Schumacher silk intricately lines the panel adorned with gold bullion in a goblet pleat.
• The plaster treatment was mixed with the paint color and then textured. Applied over the top were 6 cans of shoe polish (article featured in The San Jose Mercury News).
• The arch door, which is over 100 years old, was carefully extracted from a church and replaced the 2 swinging rectangular doors. This room being across from the kitchen was used as a butlers pantry. I was able to center the arch door directly across from the kitchen.

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