How To Use Drawing room In A Sentence

His rearrangement of the furniture left an important room, the anteroom to the drawing room, without a centrepiece.
To the left the spacious drawing room includes a stone fireplace with matching hearth and log store.
It shall be like one of those period dramas, with guests conversing politely in the drawing room whilst Kate plonks away in the next room.
A huge bathroom has a sunken bath, the drawing room a vaulted roof. Times, Sunday Times
To the right, the drawing room is a spacious area with a raised fireplace with brass inset and white marble hearth.

Each room is uniquely styled and many feature antique or bespoke furniture, while common areas include landscaped gardens and elegant drawing rooms with open fires. Times, Sunday Times
These are like well furnished drawing rooms, equipped with coffee tables and comfortable armchairs.
These open up to reveal a spacious hallway, off which lies a bay-windowed drawing room with its French doors leading to the rear garden.
To the left the drawing room is a bright area with two shuttered sash windows overlooking the front garden and a fine marble fireplace.
The drawing room and dining areas are papered in Victorian style and have wooden floors and panelling.
As well as four bedrooms, the house has a drawing room, dining room, kitchen and a study.
She showed us into a quaint, small drawing room which owed its atmosphere quite clearly to Mrs. Camber, for whereas the study was indescribably untidy, this was a model of neatness without being formal or unhomely. Bat Wing
Downstairs there were four rooms: a dining room, drawing room, playroom and kitchen.
The extensive linenfold panelling in the drawing room, all in mint condition, must also be a later import. Times, Sunday Times
To the right of the entrance hall is a dual aspect drawing room extending the depth of the house and featuring an Adams-style marble fireplace.
After changing jeans and shoes, he went down to the drawing room to consult the address book beside the telephone.
I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen.
The reception hall with mahogany woodblock floor leads to a gracious drawing room with windows on three sides overlooking the well-tended gardens.
Clocks decorated with mythological beings and resting on marble bases adorned desks, consoles, and mantelpieces in drawing rooms and studies everywhere during the First Empire.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
That morning, midway through one such rambling tale of being rescued from the jaws of ravenous sheep by a horde of birds, my father banished her, breakfastless, to the drawing room. Shaman's Crossing
It is an apartment with two bedrooms and a large drawing room. Times, Sunday Times
It clearly beat sitting in the drawing room. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor houses a study, dining room and drawing room, which opens on to another terrace and the garden. Times, Sunday Times
The four-course evening meal is served by candlelight and afterwards coffee is served in the drawing room by a log fire.
Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre.
He ushered me into the drawing room.
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimney piece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell.
The drawing room overlooks the front garden and features an original fireplace with a marble mantlepiece and cast iron inset.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
The rectangular building has a corridor running from the entrance hallway with double doors to the drawing room.
Ibsen's magnificence is hard to put across: the drama opens in a drawing room and ends in a howling waste. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review
Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre.
Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom.
Wooden double doors lead through the drawing room, which is a similar size and features an impressive fireplace with a marble mantlepiece, brass grate and marble hearth.
They were quite distinct from the plushly carpeted front stairs, reserved for the gentry when accessing the living quarters and drawing rooms above. What the Help Really Saw
My father had a grocer's shop and our drawing room was above the shop. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
If your library is on a gadget rather than sprawling impressively across your drawing room, it does rather limit the effect. Times, Sunday Times
Today, guests can see the room where the nuptials took place, sample his work in the drawing room, and admire a stained-glass ceiling inspired by his poetry.
Double doors to the right lead to a large drawing room with polished oak floor and marble fireplace.
At midnight, with no sign of Sandy, we left some sandwiches in the drawing room and went to bed.
After dinner was finished, Audrey retired to the drawing room, where she began reading in a feeble attempt to divert her mind from the day's activities.
You could, if you were a mentalist, spend £5,000 on a suit, or a cooker, or a set of speakers for your drawing room.
The double drawing room has matching white marble fireplaces and gilt mirrors at either end. Times, Sunday Times
The drawing room marries a huge, oxblood marble fireplace with an elaborate segmented plaster ceiling.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
The drawing room sets the sumptuous tone for the whole castle. Times, Sunday Times
The drawing room to the left has a redbrick floor-to-ceiling fireplace with pine mantelpiece.
I found Jett in the blue drawing room, huddled in a corner of the sofa. DEAD BEAT
Le linge qui séche but not Le singe qui léche Madame: votre mouton bouille not Madame: votre bouton mouille Sex in the drawing room: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
Elegant drawing rooms lead off a grand entrance hall via double doors and have feature fireplaces with French doors opening to the gardens at the back.
Tea cups tinkled in the drawing room next door and pink-faced women trying to wish their fat away padded through the hallways swathed in white towelling, on their way to the supple fingers of the waiting masseurs.
It was customary for the hostess and ladies to retire to the adjoining drawing room at the end of the meal leaving the men to their own discussions and to drink and smoke.
The main hall has stone pillars and gives access to a ballroom, drawing room and library.
The old drawing room serves her as both sitting room and study.
But mostly change is subtle, almost delicate, and it is viewed most clearly not from the stand or drawing room but with a squint-eyed look from across the net.
She whispered in the dowager's ear and went off to find the ladies withdrawing room.
Here, black has come up from the streets and into the drawing room; overleaf, neutral tones assert themselves.
If you had to name one item that might symbolise the Victorian drawing room, you might opt for the aspidistra plant, seen in most Victorian households.
On the right hand of the saloon, are the common dining and drawing rooms; the first furnished with light green; the other, with a pale pink armozeen corded with white, and both trimmed with white silk fringe. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
Later in the evening the men would rejoin the ladies in the drawing room for conversation and card games and tea would be dispensed.
Yet one day, while Hátszegi was in the drawing room of the countess, paying his court to her most assiduously, Vámhidy entered _sans gêne_; whereupon the countess hastily springing up from her _causeuse_ asked leave of the baron to withdraw for a moment and there and then conducted The Poor Plutocrats
In the drawing room he is polish'd, well bred, and from the pomp and magnificence of style in which he lives he cannot fail at first to impose on the stranger a good opinion of at least his gentlemanly manners, and courtlike behaviour. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
The library and drawing room looked almost normal compared to the bizarre collection of marble busts, classical casts and ancient antiquities that covered the walls of the rooms behind.
The double drawing room has matching white marble fireplaces and gilt mirrors at either end. Times, Sunday Times
A dramatic dog-leg external ramp linking the ground and first floor levels runs across the glazed west wall of the drawing room.
The well-made play full of repressed emotions in a nice drawing room is back. Times, Sunday Times
That would mean either making conversation with Miss Thornhill in the drawing room or slinking off to hide in a room where she was not — and he had never been a slinker. No Man's Mistress
She stood aghast at the black shadow in the drawing room.
At midnight, with no sign of Sandy, we left some sandwiches in the drawing room and went to bed.
It is a ghost story, a tragedy, a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story performed with childlike unselfconsciousness.
I sat at your table, he reminded the actress, who looked a little put out when he approached her as she fended off admirers in the predictably rococo drawing room of the French Embassy, where the most discriminating after-party was under way. O: A Presidential Novel
Perfect for the drawing room, living room or study, the Davenport Desk is made from quality mahogany wood and boasts a fine leather top.
There's a nest in the woodrose vine outside the drawing room window, just above my eye level.
Double sliding doors between the drawing room and dining room have been recessed into the dividing wall.
After the meal, we retired to the drawing room for coffee and sweets (home-made fudge and Turkish delight), before falling exhausted into bed.
Across the hall is a spacious drawing room with a large bay window, ornate marble fireplace, decorative plaster coving and ceiling rose.
There is a good-sized drawing room features a French-style limed oak fireplace and polished wood floor.
The well-made play full of repressed emotions in a nice drawing room is back. Times, Sunday Times
The drawing room sets the sumptuous tone for the whole castle. Times, Sunday Times
We had some people in the drawing room, and Miss Dog was squiggling about on the floor being winsome.
Whether it is the drawing room of a grand mansion or the front room of a humble semi-detached, the fire and its heat will draw attention.
The word feels foreign on my tongue, as foreign as the maps spread over the dining room table, the sword propped in the corner of my drawing room. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame.
There was a queer choking sound from Nora and she walked quickly down to the other end of the drawing room and earnestly fixed her gaze upon a portrait of one of the judge's ancestors, until she could gain control of her risibles. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
The drawing room includes a sprung German oak floor, as well as wood-panelled walls and an eye-catching fireplace in white marble.
The drawing room is particularly notable for its splendid oak panelling.
These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
The other is a formal drawing room with french doors that open on to a lawn that stretches out into a paddock. Times, Sunday Times
Why, I was admiring the beautiful epergne in the drawing room.
At Kensington Palace, Diana doted shamelessly on “ma boys,” as she jokingly referred to the princes in her version of an antebellum drawl, allowing them to spend hours in front of the television set, zip around the grounds on their BMX bikes, or chase each other down portrait-lined hallways and through chandeliered drawing rooms waving rubber swords. William and Kate
It brought plenty of vigor to the vivace opening movement, appropriately so, although the acoustics of the drawing room venue for the concerts lent a hard edge to some of the concerted passages.
Tamara Beckwith is sitting on a vast scarlet sofa in the drawing room of her home in Belgravia, Central London, with her four-month-old daughter - Violet Angiolina Rose Veroni, known as Vivi - delicately balanced on her knees. Home | Mail Online
Meanwhile, he unwrapped the handkerchief from his hand, trying to rub feeling back into his numbed fingers, and waiting for the tracker to give him a sightline, when, with no more fanfare than a dust mote entering a Victorian drawing room on a ray of midafternoon sunlight, the bull was suddenly upon him. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
To the left of the reception hall is the drawing room with an attractive period fireplace, original wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows.
The upstairs drawing room is a deep turquoise colour, and its ceiling is studded with gilded stars.
After that, we adjourned to the drawing room where Carlo served us a pot of my finest Assam and some cucumber sandwiches.
He ushered me into the drawing room.
The television was moved into a new room made vacant (the original living space) and set into a built in wall-unit book case that gave the room the feeling of an old fashioned library or drawing room. the telly is very small and doesn't detract from the rooms atmosphere. Arranging Living Room Furniture
Inside, the house is on three storeys, with the ground floor including a drawing room, study and dining room.
When the vicomtesse drifted across a drawing room she still swayed in the island way that was all grace and sensuality. THE DIAMOND
The chandeliers in the drawing room, originally gasoliers, had been converted to electric light sometime in the 1920s.
These include high moulded ceilings, wonderful fireplaces, polished floors and a very grand drawing room. Times, Sunday Times
The drawing room is particularly notable for its splendid oak panelling.
With difficulty, they squeezed their way up to the large drawing room to be announced; the buzz of many conversations lulling for a moment as the guests took in the dowager's rare public appearance.
On the ground floor the drawing room and dining room have open fireplaces while the first and second floor contain the five bedrooms.
At the moment, the owners are using the largest bedroom as a first floor drawing room which spans the width of the house and includes two shuttered windows and a cast iron fireplace.
My father told him he was very welcome to use the drawing room. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
expurgated" for drawing room recital by an ultra-fastidious [15] who nevertheless recognized its great force. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
I have no doubt it was meant to scandalise polite society and satirise their hypocrisy, but how would polite society have got itself into the Mond drawing room? Charles Sargeant Jagger I: war and sex
It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room.
That would be like calling a drawing room a lounge. Times, Sunday Times
The decor is messy, the walls are covered with art, there is an annexe made up to resemble a 1930s drawing room and everything is in an advanced state of dilapidation.
Katherine led the way out of the ballroom and into the drawing room across the parlour.
The parents of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the fourteenth earl and countess of Strathmore, are depicted in a double portrait that usually hangs in the drawing room at Glamis Castle near Dundee.
Thus it was that in a few moments they were sitting on a sofa in the drawing room, David still gripping the envelope in white and nerveless hands, while Philip perched on a chair opposite, watching with some concern.
The first-floor drawing room is a tranquil space, devoid of the clutter of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
McLauchlan says he gets a rush of pleasure when he walks into the drawing room and the dining room, both of grand proportions.
The bag in her hand, she began walking about the drawing room, opening a tallboy, lifting the lid of a Chinese chest, pulling out a drawer in a console table. Portobello
Inside, both the sitting room and drawing room have bay windows, there is a dining room and a kitchen with a gas-fired Aga.
But what about the upper middle classes who fill up corporate boardrooms, elegant drawing rooms and exclusive clubs?
SAVE You know you're properly grown up when your drawing room contains a chaise longue. Times, Sunday Times
On the left is a billiard room with an antique billiard table picked up from an army barracks in Clonmel, and straight across is the drawing room.
She was alone, so far, in her large Louis XVI drawing room, the bronzes and brocades of which had a bright gayness.
The ornate drawing room ceiling at now-disused Whinburn School is copied from a design at 17th-century East Riddlesden Hall, it has been revealed.
Birds are the theme of the drawing room.
Immediately to the right is the drawing room, which also has a laminated floor and decorative ceiling plasterwork.
Set on five acres, there is a reception hall, drawing room, anteroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry, four bedrooms and a bathroom.
A recital was given in the drawing room, then guests enjoyed Sunday lunch under the trees on the lawn and she became besotted with the idea of living in a country house herself.
Huge wooden beams in the bedroom and drawing room once graced an Aberdeen wool mill.
The drawing room and picture gallery were lit up, and the effect was truly fine. DISRAELI: A Personal History
From the drawing room door she turned to her right into the small vestibule at the stair foot.
But what about the upper middle classes who fill up corporate boardrooms, elegant drawing rooms and exclusive clubs?
We took time to relax in the cosily decorated drawing room.
His portrait graces the wall of the drawing room.
`You mean you'd want to burn all the Louis Quinze furniture and fill the drawing room with Bauhaus designs! THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
With the radical image makeover, the humble earthenware has emerged out of the kitchen to occupy pride of place as decorative articles in drawing rooms, hotel lobbies, airport lounges and showrooms.
Seated in a large and wealthily furnished drawing room by a bright fire, writing at a neat little table, sits Helen, now no longer Helen Winston but Mrs. Lincarrol. Daisy Ashford: Her Book
The fireplaces in the library and the drawing room have ornate wooden mantels with marble surrounds and are complemented by south - facing bay windows.
After doing so, he turned on the radio, sat in his favourite chair in the drawing room, drinking a small glass of elderflower cordial, and listened to the programme.
It has a drawing room with floor-to-ceiling sash windows, four bedrooms upstairs and a downstairs guest suite that opens onto the gardens. Times, Sunday Times
The house has two studies, a library, a 15 ft kitchen, dining room, family room, sitting room, drawing room and two bathrooms.
The drawing room still has its original gold-leaf wallpaper. Times, Sunday Times
Her drawing room had a meditation altar. Times, Sunday Times
The entrance hall with open tread staircase and polished parquet flooring leads to a drawing room and bar area with a beamed ceiling and a timber floor.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
The ballroom would be filled, Kenneth thought, surveying the empty room while most of the ladies were still abovestairs putting the finishing touches to their toilettes and most of the gentlemen were in the drawing room fortifying themselves for the ordeal ahead with the earl's brandy or port. Unforgiven
He went downstairs, which he seldom did before he was dressed, and in the drawing room, from the fifth drawer down in a tallboy of tiny drawers, opened a fresh pack of Chocorange, put one in his mouth and another in his dressing-gown pocket. Portobello
The house was silent; they walked quietly forward, halting level with the open drawing room door. ALL ABOUT LOVE
The drawing room is particularly notable for its splendid oak panelling.
This was once a state bedroom for visiting dignitaries but is now an elegant drawing room for entertaining important guests.
On the ground floor the large, bright drawing room has a period granite fireplace and wooden partition doors, which concertina back to reveal the formal dining room.
The drawing room of Sunita's apartment near Vellayambalam is adorned with soft-toys, glass and nib paintings and embossed and engraved showpieces.
The drawing room and dining room lie to the left of the hallway and look onto the front and rear respectively.
That would be like calling a drawing room a lounge. Times, Sunday Times
She returned back inside, sauntering into the drawing room where she resumed her position on the window seat, picking up the book.
In the adjoining drawing room there is a sprung pale oak dance floor with built-in disco lights. Times, Sunday Times
The hall leads to a drawing room with a deep bay window and tiled fireplace with mahogany surround.
Old and new world wines complement dinner, and aperitifs and after-dinner drinks are served in the airy drawing room beside the turf fires.
I called one our maids, Andrea, to go and put the blue and purple flowers in the drawing room.
She stood aghast at the black shadow in the drawing room.
They were back home in the drawing room in Bloomsbury, with the countryside burning in the grate and the curtains drawn.
Un '_Amatore_ a cui forse l' ignobile itinerario della _Starke_ ha rivelate quella sublime veduta, sta colassu scarabocchiando uno sbozzo pell 'Album del suo _drawing room_. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
This terrace is about half the size of the drawing room and the current owners have embellished it with an ornamental pond and fountain.
Three other reception rooms can all be reached from the drawing room or the reception hall.
He was cordial and invited me to his small private drawing room and library.
Instead of Stone Age camps aswirl in magic and taboo and scented smoke from mesquite lodge fires, she found herself sitting on taffeta chairs in drawing rooms on the outer margins of the Industrial Revolution, being interrogated by polite uncomprehending white men who believed in a single God and in a supremely rational universe where everything could be explained. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
I was ushered into the mammoth first-floor drawing room. Times, Sunday Times
To the left, the drawing room is wallpapered in green and overlooks the front garden through a window with original shutters.
The dining room, library and drawing room are as she had them. Times, Sunday Times
Shall we repair to the drawing room?
In the drawing room a pair of pink marble pillars supported the embrasure of the windows.
To the right of the entrance hall lies a drawing room while to the left is the library, which in turn adjoins the dining room.
The next three floors are a whirl of bedrooms, bathrooms and dressing rooms before we arrive at the drawing room, which has its own kitchen area so that the staff don't have to slog up the stairs with the pre-dinner nibbles.
His portrait graces the wall of the drawing room.
The drawing rooms are splendidly accoutred, the 19 bedrooms individually designed and lavishly furnished and its restaurant is, simply, second to none.
The two largest apartments each have a Soane drawing room with three windows. Times, Sunday Times
Both the drawing room and dining room have ornate fireplaces and decorative cornicing with large windows looking out over the gardens.
He did not know that he was himself possessed of unusual brain vigor; nor did he know that the persons who were given to probing the depths and to thinking ultimate thoughts were not to be found in the drawing rooms of the world's Chapter 27
The drawing room has a picture window overlooking the front garden and French doors to the side, while the dining area enjoys a dual aspect.
Recently remodelled to increase the interior spaces, the house has a huge drawing room with two fireplaces and double-height windows that look out over the grounds. Times, Sunday Times
One Sunday afternoon a friendly orthoepical difference of this nature arose even as Mrs. Maper sat in her palatial drawing room waiting for callers, and they repaired to the library, Mrs. Maper arguing the point with loud good humour. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
The house has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, one en-suite, a drawing room, a dining room, a morning room, a studio, kitchen/a breakfast room, a three attic rooms, a conservatory, a scullery, a cellar and a two-bedroom unmodernised annexe.
Behind their bay windows are elegant drawing rooms and to the rear there is sufficient space to create generous kitchens and living areas.
The décor of ‘male’ and ‘female’ rooms was distinguished, with dark panelling prevalent in dining and billiard rooms, lighter plasterwork in drawing rooms, boudoirs, and bedrooms.
The resulting console doesn't look like swoopy CAD seamlessness; rather, it's pure rococo, as if Super Mario were lumbering through an 18th-century French drawing room. Design of the Digital Age
Shall we repair to the drawing room?
The drawing room with its magnificent chandelier and antique furniture is in a wing of the house built by John Nash.
If your library is on a gadget rather than sprawling impressively across your drawing room, it does rather limit the effect. Times, Sunday Times
We took time to relax in the cosily decorated drawing room.
The first-floor drawing room is a tranquil space, devoid of the clutter of modern life. Times, Sunday Times
The house was silent; they walked quietly forward, halting level with the open drawing room door. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Across the hall is a spacious drawing room with a large bay window, ornate marble fireplace, decorative plaster coving and ceiling rose.
The table had once graced a duke's drawing room.
Tea cups tinkled in the drawing room next door and pink-faced women trying to wish their fat away padded through the hallways swathed in white towelling, on their way to the supple fingers of the waiting masseurs.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
It has a drawing room with floor-to-ceiling sash windows, four bedrooms upstairs and a downstairs guest suite that opens onto the gardens. Times, Sunday Times
We put Lee in the drawing room where once again my Persian rug could be pressed into service as the world's most expensive duvet.
Warrenton, Va., decorator Barry Dixon's drawing room possesses the well-worn elegance of a Venetian palazzo. Rooms With a Viewpoint
Less than a minute later noise erupted from the drawing room and excited voices drifted down the hall.

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