(gentle music) - We're in the Gold Room at Trenwith, the old Poldark family home where Aunt Agatha lives and where George has moved in with Elizabeth.
It's a new set for this year, which is a kind of parlor sitting room.
We've used a very old-fashioned wallpaper which you can still get which is called Lincrusta.
And we've painted it with about 10 layers of paint (laughs) and gold and varnishes to give the effect of the leather wall hangings that give a richness but also an age to the room.
We've got two great fireplaces, and we've bought original overmantels which we kind of scoured antique shops for.
And then we've built kind of paneling to match those.
And we've had some columns molded off some carvings that we found just to give detail to the room.
- Uncle Ross and Aunt Demelza do not visit us now.
- We've joined it onto an increased library set that we have and created a composite of rooms and corridors and stairs, which are leading off the great hall but which add to the world of Trenwith.
(Elizabeth sighs) At the start of the series, George opens his new bank building in Truro, somewhere where he has real status and power.
So we've gone a bit overboard with that (laughs).
It's a big flashy bank.
And then they go off and spend the winter in the town.
So they go to his townhouse, which we've not seen before.
A more modern house for them in the late 18th century style.
It's brighter, it's a bit more vulgar.
You want them to walk in in their costume and feel that they can live in this world.
- [Director] Action!
- And so very often we're building four walls of a set that you may only see three walls of, but it just helps to make them feel that they're in a real space.
I think it does make a difference.
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