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Continuing our tour of the Breakers…
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We constantly had to remind ourselves to look up.
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Because no matter how beautiful the rooms were, the ceilings were equally lovely.
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Even small alcoves used to play cards…
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Had intricate overhead embellishment.
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The last room on the first floor tour of the “cottage” was the library.
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Yes, there were a few bookcases beside the 16th century French fireplace and chimney brought from the Chateau d’Arnay Le Duc …
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But even here it was more about seeing and being seen than actual reading.
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Up the back staircase…
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Was a balcony that ran around the entire top floor offering a view of the great hall below.
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Red seemed to be a popular color for bedrooms.
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And though the upstairs wasn’t quite as ornate as the down..
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It was still wall to wall marble.
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With decorative touches.
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Sore butt station.
Got it.
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Personally, this wallpaper gave me hives.
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But Gertrude seemed to like it.
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She might have been a cute child…
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But looked to be a battle ax in her later years.
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A photo outside the house during her wedding.
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This simpler green guest room was more soothing.
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And it had a lovely view.
Here’s my husband taking a picture…
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Of hangers.
He collects old wooden hangers you know.
🥴
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One more glimpse of the grand staircase from on high…
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And we moved on.
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River's world..... 
Wooden hangers. 😶
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He has stacks of the stupid things, in various forms.
Ugh.
🥴
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Your husband and the hangers made me laugh. That wallpaper is hideously busy. And that “back staircase” would be the grand staircase in most houses LOL.
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True.
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Gertrude really did live up to her name didn’t she, lol. She looks really miserable as an adult, and battle ax indeed. The painter even painted in the bags beneath her eyes, when they could have been left out. So I’m guessing that she either pissed him off or he thought he was doing right by her. Either way its hilarious as hell ;p
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Not a flattering portrait to be sure.
😉
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Yet it was hung… so maybe it was flattering, and she was even worse IRL!
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That doesn’t bear thinking about.
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Funny about the hangers. Just yesterday I threw out all the plastic hangers and replaced them with new wooden hangers….
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He likes the old advertising on them. The weirder the better.
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Gosh I forgot about that tho I don’t remember any specific advertising…Now I’m curious as to what is printed on the hangers.
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The ceiling above the staircase … ❤️❤️❤️!!
He collects wodden hangers???? Man, that closet must have been killing him!
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I’m sure he was tempted to snatch one, but managed to restrain himself.
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He was thinking, ” I wish I’d brought ky BIG purse!” LOL
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I shudder to think about the cost of heating the place.
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They didn’t. The “cottages” were only open for 6-8 weeks in the summer.
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All that space for two months tops?! Wow!
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An excess of excess…
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That whole room made me gag, not just the wallpaper.
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The balcony overlooking the hall reminds me of The Sound of Music.
It was the wallpaper that turned her so cranky.
Your husband collects old wooden hangers? That surprises me… but it shouldn’t.
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It really shouldn’t.
🥴
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