Old travel Blog photograph the drawing room in Kellie Castle, 10 miles South of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Kellie Castle is located three miles north of Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife, and largely dates from the 16th and early 17th centuries. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy. Robert Lorimer was born in Edinburgh in 1864, the third child and younger son of Professor James Lorimer and Hannah Stodart. He gained much of his inspiration for architecture and design from living at Kellie Castle, which his parents leased and started restoring in 1878. Over the years, Robert became very familiar with the grand and domestic design at Kellie, which had been turned from a medieval tower, to a 17th century mansion house and then an arts and crafts home.
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