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Outdoors, gardens and waterways abound, including Garden In The “Glyn” by Ron Cording of Cording Landscape Design. Using what originally was a castle moat, Cording created a grotto-like garden featuring a long pool with a waterfall on either end.
Perched above the pool is a circular picnic area with a picnic table of stone mounted on stone. Around it are bright green/yellow chairs that blend perfectly with the Golden Japanese forest grass, hydrangea, and pansies planted around the eating area.
Adding to the natural beauty of the scene are colorful trees, including an old beech, Coral Bark Maple, and a Blue Atlas Cedar.
Some of the gardens, the front façade of the castle, and the regal driveway, lined with Linden trees, are all lighted by NatureScape Lighting, which specializes in cutting-edge, sustainable green lighting technology.
Karla Tricanello of Interior Decisions bridged outside and inside with her Winter Porch, a room with three open walls designed to be a way to get away from the bustle of the house and enjoy the purple and white petunias, and trickling fountain, in the surrounding Garden of Seasons for all the Senses.
Sheer motorized shades and canvas drapes protect the room from the elements, as does the fiber sealing on the carpet and oversized furniture, which include a so-called “cuddle chaise” for two people. A couple enjoying the room, Tricanello said, could take a nap or watch the flat-screen television over the fireplace.
“I wanted the room to look as though you could kick off your shoes and lay down and, if you spilled your wine, it was OK,” she added.
Her eclectic touches include a crystal chandelier in the shape of grape clusters and pillows on which are sewn fluttering butterflies.
It’s the kind of eclecticism she hopes Allen would like. He had, after all, an eclectic life. A book publisher, he also made his fortune running an electric company in Bermuda as well as a distillery.
After the death of Allen’s widow, Grace Fanshawe Allen, the estate was sold in 1951 to General Drafting Co., a map-making company that did business there until 1992.
A couple bought the estate in 1996 and raised their family there until leaving last year, before the transformation began.
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