A visit to the principal bedroom allows you to take in the view to the south to the Yarra and Toorak Road on the horizon. While the walls of the room were overpainted in the 1950s, large sections of the ceiling, with its large elaborately painted ceiling rose, and the frieze remain intact.
In 1884, the Daily Telegraph described the ceiling as: “Here, in a pearly haze, may be seen cupids, cherubim and angel forms, with entwined garlands of poppies, wild flowers and lace work, and flowery festoons gathered beneath starry skies”. A year later, a reporter from Table Talk magazine would describe the room as “one of the finest in the colony”.