The Great Hall
The goal of the project was to bring the house back to its turn of the century look, long before the National Trust took over. The scheme for the Great Hall was based on the dinner hosted for the East Kent Yeomanry (see image below), an infantry division in the British Army and as you can see from the image at the top it looks fabulous! The new (old) deep orange look for the walls in combination with the blue ceiling really brings life to the hall and feels so much cosier. The elaborate moulded plasterwork on the ceiling is attributed to Richard Dungan, Royal Master Plasterer to King Henry VIII from 1597-1609. Incidentally, the girl in the foreground of the picture below is none other than a young Vita Sackville-West.