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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
And an update from this morning on the Colonial Building, our former Parliament.
The exterior is now mostly complete, as is the structural landscaping (not the plants, etc.). The interior is coming along but lots left to do there.
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A look inside. Pictures via FB from a media tour yesterday.
The entrance:
In the end it will be very, very colourful and patterened. It's like putting an ancient Greek statue back to its original colours.
A lot of very gaudy faux finishes and the like were very popular when the building was built, and it's these that are being restored - its original condition.
So a lot of this more recent artwork will be removed:
And it'll be returned to what's underneath:
Some rooms, though, were relatively tasteful even by contemporary standards. This one, for example, is almost entirely (excluding the floor) back to how it looked in the mid-1800s: