Sentences with phrase «grand house»
«I wanted to be able to paint a piece of furniture or a wall and then wax it to create a beautiful effect, similar to the finishes used in grand houses in Europe.
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Overlooking the rolling countryside, you can see remains of the defensive wall that once circled the town, there's a 14th century gatehouse into the old town and tucked away below the castle is a row of grand houses that Sir John Betjeman described as the loveliest Georgian street in Cornwall.
It was interesting to see how grand the house and grounds of Langham House, or Hill House as it is now known, were.
The coachman was right: Ashton Place was a very grand house indeed.
It will also include Cole's landscape paintings, some showing ancient ruins inspired by his European travels, others with 19th - century grand houses.
He purchased Leoni's grand house near London, Moor Park, for which he ordered a set of Gobelins tapestry hangings with medallions by François Boucher and a long suite of seat furniture to match, for which Robert Adam provided designs: they are among the earliest English neoclassical furniture.
Designed and built in the 1820s by architect Decimus Burton, the construction of Cornwall Terrace was part of the Prince Regent's scheme, later King George IV, to develop grand housing in Regent's Park.
owner You're really rather posh and have a really rather grand house.
On Wednesday, November 25, Channel 4's Grand House Designs: House of the Year had the honour of announcing this year's winner...
It meant his father was able to own a large sporting estate in Suffolk, a castle with 49,000 acres in the west of Scotland, hotels near Monte Carlo, grand houses in Perthshire and London, and numerous racing yachts.
Tapestry is the art form of grand houses: depicting classical myths, historical and religious scenes and epic battles.
Authorities plan to build a total of 3 million housing units by 2019 under the Grand Housing Mission launched in 2011.
Berkshire County had hills that Melville and Hawthorne had climbed, beautiful historic towns, grand houses, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Atheneum library, but to Sifton it seemed a poor trade for the modest farms and captivating friendliness of Heath: «It was more like exurbia for the power elite.»
Butler rebuttalWe knocked on the door of the largest and grandest house in the whole constituency, lived in at the time by a rather wealthy businessman.
Story is set in 1686, when 18 - year - old Nella Oortman (Taylor Joy) knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam.
Blend in a grand house in Savannah, Georgia.
Visual motifs of animals appear throughout, from dogs roaming the grand house where most of the action takes place to horses in the barnyard and sheep in the farmland, to ornamental deer and other creatures in the paintings that adorn the walls.
The grand house is there, but it's a tumbledown wreck inhabited by grotesques.
There, in a forest of oak trees, is a clearing in which there is a grand house with formal gardens.
In the grander houses, lower servants were not expected to make eye contact; it's as if they're not really there — or not fully real, not considered persons in their own right.
The grand houses opposite had a Sunday blankness to them — but then, they had that every...
Not as aloof and distant as relations between staff and family might be in the grandest houses, like Pemberley, or even Netherfield, but not as informal as they might be between a grocer's family and their maid.
Would you buy that grand house you've always dreamed of?
It was a dream come true for Shana: «We're fifteen years old and we're all sitting around drinking champagne in this grand house.»
Discover the scandalous stories inside the grandest houses of Victorian London, in the new story from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes
The grand house is perched on the hill with sweeping views of Launceston city and Tamar Valley.
Next day we visited Rubens» grand house and studio; the UNESCO - listed Plantin - Moretus house, home to Europe's oldest commercial printers; and the excellent MAS port museum.
Villa Il Casale, Trapani is a charming Sicilian construction dating back to the 1800's, when it was once an ancient and grand house - farm originally known as «Baglio».
Many of the hotels and guest houses built then are still serving guests today, as are many of the grand houses built by the wealthy industrialists of the time.
The Colleton is found atop the southern turret of the Grand House.
The Camelot sprawls over the two floors above the Grand House, offering approximately 1,380 square feet of space.
A studio apartment located on the grounds of one of the grand houses in the Marchmont area of Edinburgh.
Victorian grand houses were often characterised by impressive Gothic Revival architecture, lavish Arts and Crafts interiors and superbly manicured grounds; discover ten of the best this summer.
Rediscover our festive heritage at these museums and grand houses.
As biennales proliferate, with them comes an increasing willingness to appropriate other kinds of space, with artists being given the opportunity to move back into the kinds of historic spaces once devoted to art — the palazzi and grand houses, the urban squares and public walkways.
It's tempting to buy the biggest, grandest house you can.
Big, colour photo of him in front of a grand house with his sold sign prominent and then a feature article.
Besides, Laurietta's not a grand house.»
We decided since it isn't a large or grand formal dining room (and not a grand house), we might as well embrace it for what it is and work on a cozier breakfast room vibe.
but the grand house and ponds... very similarly beautiful.
Oh what a grand house!
Set in an idyllic country plot of 36 acres on the edge of Itchen Valley, Hampshire, the grand house looks straight out of a period drama.
In 1951, the grand house was divided into three apartments — and it's one of these apartments which is now for sale through Fine & Country Berkhamsted, for # 1.75 million.