Downton Abbey Living Room
With the Downton Abbey movie releasing this weekend we're taking a look at the stunning house that sits at the centre of the show. Here is a look inside Downton Abbey, the iconic fictional English stately home:
Downton Abbey takes place in Yorkshire in the north of England, though the real house of Highclere Castle is actually situated in Hampshire in the south. The show films all exterior shots at Highclere as well as much of its interior shots with the exception of the servants quarters which are built and filmed in Ealing studios.
A floorpan of Highclere shows that the main floor of the house is made up of a: Entrance Hall, Waiting Room, Great Hall (with grand staircase), Dining Room and adjacent Servery, North Library, Library, Music Room, Drawing Room, Smoking Room, Sitting Room (or Pink Room), Study and Secretary's Room. The main rooms of Downton Abbey include:
Dining Room
The dining room acts as the central backdrop of much of the show's Abbey scenes, as the family come together most often in this room (for breakfast, lunch and supper). The table generally seats 10 during the day with the ability to extend for grand dinners. There is very little change in this room throughout the series, and appears almost exactly as the room does in real life at Highclere Castle.
Drawing Room
The drawing room is one of the brighter rooms of the house, in hues of green and pinks. During the first world war the room was transformed into a ward for injured soldiers during the house's period as a convalescent home. Gold mouldings and textured wallpaper gives this room a particularly rich quality unlike the historic and earthier tones and decors of other rooms in the building.
Library
With its wall-to-wall hardback books it is perhaps no surprise that the room has its own librarian. The library is split into two with the 'north library' separated by two decorative columns. The room is well suited to evening gatherings in which family members sit talking and drinking tea. It is also used by Lord Grantham as an office.
Bedroom
Lady Mary's bedroom, the 'Queen Caroline' room, has been the setting for various big plot points including deaths, proposals and arguments. In the earlier season of the show the decor of this room was red and cream in colour, but shifts to a deep shade of green at the turn of the 1920s.
Kitchen
The primary 'downstairs' room, the kitchen is a archetypal servants' workplace with stone floors, small windows and industrious proportions. As well as serving as the centre of the servants' activities, it also acts as their dining room once 'upstairs' have been served. Though the room is not decorated, the various copper pots and pans, strings of vegetables and numerous cooking paraphernalia help set the scene in this room.
The Downton Abbey movie is released 13 September in the UK followed by 20 September in the US. Find all other release dates here, or find out more about the movie here. Take a look at various locations used through the series in this previous post, or see other on screen homes using the 'fictional homes' category.
Source: https://scenetherapy.com/inside-downton-abbey/
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