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Current Talk '12 II / Re: Discuss - Ep #0292
« on: September 09, 2012, 09:26:42 PM »
Lydia, the door under the stairs is six feet high and there are nine and a half inches of moulding according to the specs so that is about a foot short of a modern eight foot ceiling. Notice the panels are narrower and longer than the ones in the drawing room to add to the illusion of height. The side walls also have no trim to cut up their feeling of height and the fact that they shoot at a low angle. There are no specs on the stairs so if they cheated and made the treads smaller than normal but kept the risers the same it makes the stairs steeper and thus look taller as compared to the stairs in the old house which look low. It also helps that most the actors are petite and look small against the backdrop. In reality due to the height of the drawing room ceilings there has to be another set of steps beyond that door to get to the second floor.