The interior of this room is a tour-de-force, designed, made, and supplied by master designer Thomas Chippendale Jnr in 1789-91, and with a Robert Adam designed ceiling and chandelier. The profits from crops produced by enslaved labour on Ninian and Penelope Home’s Caribbean estates are likely to have funded this interior. Ninian had an income in the 1780s of around £1000 /year from his estates in Grenada and Mustique – the peak of sugar prices and production.

Chippendale advised Ninian and Penelope on decorating the ceiling in colours and undertook all the decorative carving around the room. Chippendale supplied the hand-painted wallpaper and pier glasses which were made in Paris. The Chippendale firm made the sofa with the loose cover, the set of ten chairs, the tea tables, two fire screens, and the set of three pier tables designed to exactly fit the spaces between the windows. These were installed at Paxton c.1790 by Chippendale’s team of workmen.