Hillfoot House

Here’s the dining room.  This is to the right when you come in through the front door.  Stunning beam across the room; it’s a big room, like the drawing room, and it has all sorts of glorious extra bits.  The previous owners used this as their sitting room, but we felt it was better suited to being a dining room.  The door on the left, underneath the quirky high cupboard, leads to the kitchen, which is why we felt that the dining room works better here.  I think we will have to replace the table and the sideboard in due course but there’s no hurry: but the table is not big enough.  We’d like to put in a big circular or large rectangular table.  The view is out over the garden, and there’s an amazing fireplace.

The dining room from the far window, facing towards the hall

The piano likes it here: the acoustics seem to work, and the floor is relatively even there, and the sun doesn’t really get to it.  You can see my clutter, where I’ve been going through all the paperwork to steadily change our address.  The Pandora bag is Liz’s 20th birthday present, a pretty bracelet.The cupboards in the room are fascinating, and so far we haven’t started to fill them up. The cupboard to the right of the fireplace (as you look at it) has hidden cupboards within it: the Georgians must have been very twitchy about keeping things safe, or maybe hiding things from the servants.  Not sure which.

The cupboard (with cat, who can’t resist the open door)