Silk Dining Room Curtains

The silk curtains in the dining room were chosen and installed by the current owners a few years ago.  The color picks up the red-orange-rust color of the dining room walls, which have the original paint, a faux finish style that was popular in the 1920s. The current owners have redecorated many of the rooms, adding full length curtains, antiques, oriental rugs and in some bedrooms, upholstered walls.  The decor reflects the style and elegance of the mansion architecture and many guests comment on how the rooms look like they were meant to be as they are. Often people don’t notice the exquisite details of the mansion until the take a tour.  Photo by Ticky Kennedy.

Library at the Winthrop Estate

On every weekend the estate is used, whether it’s a destination wedding, a family vacation, a retreat or a concert, people find their way to the Library, which is just off the foyer, to play board games, read by the fire, or enjoy a conversation.  Sometimes they listen to the tube-amplified MacIntosh radio with AudioResearch amps on AudioPhysic speakers, sitting in the soft leather chairs and sometimes they just watch their child enjoy himself.  Photo by Konrad Brattke

I think it’s the upholstered linen walls in robin’s egg blue, the embroidered silk drapery, the white antique chairs with new silky upholstery, the art, and the way the decorations of the whole room fit together. It was labeled “Daughter’s Room” on the bell system. It even has a hidden closet- it’s behind the room when you open the door, and people almost never notice it, even after they close the door.