A COUPLE left Scotland’s Dwelling of the Yr judges in a spin – with their elegant Vertigo film impressed residence.
John Dawson and US-born Jason Mokrovich spent a yr and a half restoring their Edwardian townhouse Kirklee Mansion in Glasgow’s West Finish to its former glory.
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However the duo included nods to their favorite flick – the Nineteen Fifties Alfred Hitchcock traditional starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, which was immediately noticed by the telly panel together with Anna Campbell Jones, Banjo Beale and Michael Angus.
Public well being employee John, 43, from Glasgow, says: “Vertigo is one in all our favorite Hitchcock movies.
“We’ve got household in San Francisco the place the film is about and have visited nearly each location the place it was made.”
Within the 1958 movie, Novak’s character Madeleine Elster is alleged to be possessed by the spirit of her late nice grandmother Carlotta Valdes.
And the couple have a duplicate of the Valdes portrait from the movie hanging delight of place inside their grand ballroom-style principal dwelling area.
John “We even visited Carlotta Valdes’s grave. A great deal of Vertigo followers do, which is bizarre contemplating she’s not even an actual particular person.
“However Jason studied in Oregon and we had been over there seeing mates after we bought speaking to a man at our resort who turned out to be an area artist.
“He was employed by Disney to recreate the Carlotta Valdes portrait as a result of the unique was stolen from the set again after they had been making the film.
“So after they had been releasing the 4k model he was requested to recreate the portray. It turned out he nonetheless had it so we purchased it off him and took it again with us to Scotland.”
Nonetheless, the couple’s favorite spot at house is a regal armchair known as Lilibet – the childhood title of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
It presents views of their expansive front room and sits below an image of Sir George Arthur Mitchell, the unique proprietor of Kirklee Mansion.
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Communications employee Jason, 40, explains: “That’s our favorite place as a result of after we’re sitting down with a cup of espresso within the morning we actually benefit from the views we get from that armchair from spring time to a chilly winter’s evening.
“And naturally it’s match for a queen so we thought it was honest to name her Lilibet.”
However each insist that Kirklee Mansion will probably be their “perpetually residence”.
John says: “Jason has all the time stated when he leaves right here he’ll be horizontal.”
And Jason quipped: “I’d come again as Carlotta to hang-out the place – as a result of I by no means wish to depart.”
*Scotland’s Dwelling of the Yr is on BBC One Scotland this Monday at 8.30pm.
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