Georgian House Museum: Interiors - Table of Contents.................... Charlotte Square - Table of Contents
Lobby,
Stair hall, and Drawing
room - Georgian
House
Museum
7 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh,
Scotland
Official
Website - Georgian House Museum
On this page, below:
| Lobby
and Stair hall "When
the Trust took over the building, there was evidence in the Entrance
Hall [lobby] of marbling and imitation courses of masonry, but beneath
these was found the delicate green which was in fact used throughout
the house. The ceiling and restrained cornice, so typical of Edinburgh
houses built towards the end of the eighteenth century, had been a
'warm' white colour, which has been copied." - "The Georgian
House," Introduction. Brochure sold at the museum.
 Fireplace features cast iron hob grate detailed below:  Cast iron hob grate ... Brass fender with stylized claw feet ... Detail below:  Pendant bellfowers decorate the hobs ... Shell decorates the center of the skirt   Daybed ... Detail below:  Reeding ... Caster  Lobby in background ... Stair hall in foreground ... Fanlight above double doors  Painted cast iron balusters with wooden handrail ... Detail below:   Looking up the staircase: oval dome at top of staircase ... Another view below:   Corner chair |
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"When
the house was first occupied, guests would have been taken straight to
the Drawing Room, where they would have been received by their host and
hostesses. The room has been arranged in a formal eighteenth
century manner, to be used for entertaining, for promenade [a march of
guests into a ballroom constituting the opening of a formal ball] and
for important occasions. For everyday living the back drawing room or
parlour would have been used." - "The Georgian House,"
Introduction. Brochure sold at the museum.
   Square piano by Richard Horsburgh dates from about 1805  Boxwood flute with silver and ivory mounts, c. 1805  Wallpaper border: Ribbon-supported bellflower swags and rosette designs ... Carved, gilded drapery cornice above silk taffeta draw-up festoon curtains  Pocket shutters  Pier glass and console table ... Pier glass is a 1790s copy of the one in Leith Hall, another National Trust for Scotland museum in northern Scotland ... Three details below:  Detail #1 - Gilded Neoclassical style mirror ... Prince of Wales feathers at top ... Scrolling acanthus leaves  Detail #2 - Console table with applied ribbons and swags motif on curved skirt ... Fluted legs ... Detail below:  Detail #3  Marble fireplace does not belong to the house, but came from No. 5 Charlotte Square ... The green colour on the walls is based on the National Trust's research into paint schemes at Robert Adam's Culzean Castle, which was being decorated when Charlotte Square was built ... Four details below:  Detail #1 - Marble ... Dentil molding ... Ionic capital on pilaster  Detail #2 - Urn finial on hob grate ... Fanned papers are arranged in the hearth when the fire is not lit  Detail #3 - Fire screen ... Panel detail below:  Detail #4  Three details below:  Detail #1 - Sconce: ... Ribbons ... Acanthus leaves ... Pendant bellflowers  Detail #2 - Sofa  Detail #3 - Fluted legs ... Feraghan carpet |
