Historic Braehead - Fredericksburg, VA
Just off Braehead’s magnificent grand hall are two beautiful formal rooms. We decided to use them as a music parlor (since a pianoforte’ was already there) and a dining parlor. The two identically sized rooms are divided by huge pocket doors with their original ceramic knobs. The exquisite millwork in these rooms was painted to resemble birds-eye and tiger maple by a nineteenth century artist. The mantels, too, have a beautiful alligatored paint finish in black over a deep ivory. Amazingly, the artist’s work remains in remarkably good shape. Very little was done to it other than gentle cleaning. Vivid blue velvet revived period furniture original to the house.