Hemlock Hill

There's a lot of big old houses up in Bedford NY, one such pile is Hemlock Hill. It used to belong to a Mr. Gutterman who added a huge addition in the 1980's for his painting collection. I worked on the house well after he had lost it. The new owners were intent on bringing the neglected property back to life.

Half of the main house on the hill, smaller pics are the Living Room and the Ball Room [about 80'x40' decorated by someone fancier than I]

One of the original rooms was a charming low ceilinged paneled room that they called ' the library' but, there were no books. They had a few great pieces including the Carlton House desk and from there the room grew into a non store bought/inherited look. The green on green rug took about six months to make, it looked great with the linen curtains and took your eye into the dining room......however, there was lady 'friend' of the clients' who had ' great flair'....."she should have been a 'decorator' "who came by and said it 'clashed'......with what I wondered....so she suggested red! a bright RED RED RED rug......and so it was changed....same pattern that I had come up with, same hand hooked, same 5 figures to make....same time frame....I thought it was horrible.......but the client 'loved it'......... oh well....... Sadly the house changed hands again and it's been redecorated one more time. I would love to see what the new owners kept.