Dorothy's Bedroom and Sitting Room

When the Theomins moved into Olveston in 1907, their daughter Dorothy returned from finishing school in Roedean, England. The effects of her schooling are very apparent in this, her bedroom and her adjoining sitting room.

As a young lady of seventeen, and a typical teenager, it wasn't long before she had decorated her rooms with trinkets she collected as well as paintings, toys, and ornaments.

The sitting room is the plainer of the two rooms but the colour scheme flows harmoniously into the bedroom. The decorative French design of her bedroom was very popular in the early 1900's. Dorothy's bedroom was restored and reopened to the public in 1995.