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Louis XIV Mansion
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A Bucolic Country Estate Becomes A French Inspired Louis XIV Mansion
The 2,550 square-foot renovation of this bucolic country estate is transformed into a French Inspired Mansion. The rear-elevation expansion has a palatial veranda with curved balustrade, a Louis XIV inspired ballroom interior —
17th century detailed décor and octagon turret-shaped room.
The interior addition includes extending an existing great-room into a formal gathering and entertaining ballroom as well as the addition of a two-story octagon shaped room for informal dining-breakfast. The exterior 1,000 square-foot stone-slab addition — with inlaid Lamé Curve (super-ellipses) and balustrade encircled 40-foot veranda creates a luxurious transition from the ballroom to outside living space. Two central 'radius and twist' limestone staircases create a grand entrance to the mansion's French inspired gardens, pool, spa and pond.
The rear-elevation expansion is constructed with a hand-chiseled, authentic-sustainable stone and stucco façade complimented with hand-carved custom cast limestone, Corinthian columns, window surrounds, reliefs, keystones, and balustrades.
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Floor to ceiling twenty foot windows with eight foot high French doors stretch across the entire Louis XIV inspired ballroom, open-out to the balcony revealing the estate's splendid gardens. A four foot deep barrel-raised panel ceiling archway entrance leads into the new dining-breakfast room's octagonal two-story cooper roof turret, surrounded with six foot windows and French doors that open to the veranda. The new ballroom and informal dining-breakfast room add 1550 square-feet of brilliantly sun-lit space.
The ballroom, in the style of Louis XIV is inspired by the "Queens Guard Room" of the Royal Palace of Versailles —
17th century décor. Two oversized chandeliers hang from medallions off the ballroom's twenty foot vaulted Venetian polished plaster ceiling with gold leaf accents and 24-radius-clipped floral 'Acanthus' scroll corners, hardwood moldings and hand-carved wood architectural leafy and 'Rinceau' scroll frieze molding emphasize the unique vaulted ceiling and Venetian polished plaster wall details.
Master millwork interior design combinations complement hand carved ornamentally embellished moldings, crowns, friezes, panel molding — in both size and design. Combinations of floral baskets, leafy, rope, casing and scrolls accentuate ceilings and entryways. Along with hand hewed wood floral leaf circular arches and eighteen foot high Corinthian fluted wood columned window surrounds that embellish the moldings and heighten the effect of the room's doorjambs, French doors, window casings, inside-balcony, cabinetry and fireplace mantel.
The outside gardens, pond fountain and hills of the estate underline the grandeur of this room as viewed from the outside-veranda or the ballroom's second-story inside balcony.
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