I can't mention the name of it, don't want to get Chris fired, but it's an imposing estate with grounds, an impressive provenance, and Chris wanted to give me a tour while the owners are away...
And so - well. Things are not as they appear. From the outside it wouldn't be in the least out of place in Upstate NY or anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard, a wealthy mans palace. But enter it, and so ramshackle is the furniture, "art" - most of it poor reproductions that would have cost more than the originals, bad prints, carpets, light fixtures.
It was, top to bottom - at it's best disappointing, at it's worst, well...
And I appreciate the tour, Chris, he's the groundskeeper Willy for this place - but - appearances have been most deceiving and it needs substantial renovations to restore it to it's former glory. Owned by Albertans, furnished by Albertans, to dismal effect.