From there the team was going to turn its attention to the entry hall, but Waterman found himself gravitating toward a new idea: the dining room lacked its own theme.
Lee Tosca, Waterman’s design and project manager, said their team never planned to go into the dining room. But, one day while she was offsite Waterman pulled at a covering on one of the walls—they started to crumble. Thus, the dining room was added to the scope of the restoration.
Waterman landed on an Arabesque theme, sometimes called Moorish, drawing on styles popular in Arab-speaking regions of the world. The design evokes "world history right in front of you," he said. "It makes you feel you’ve been transported to a different place."
The team updated the French theme in the entry hall with a new color palette and appropriate furniture. Serendipitous finds in the house’s storage, such as the original silk and velvet drapery let the team reinstate a sense of luxury original to the home as well. Waterman was especially proud, though, of the new dining room:
"It was really fun to add something new to a home that was already so full of detail."