The old mansion on North Street has been renovated and revived by the Oxford Academy of Hair Design.
Instead of dark colors and alleged haunted rooms, the old Victorian home now boasts light rooms, with funky pink details.
Owner Kellie Steeves is finishing up the renovations after relocating her business to the building this summer.
Click play on the video at top to view the new details and design.
The 20-room mansion used to house the prestigious Wooster family, who moved to Seymour in 1878.
William Henry Harrison Wooster was an industrial leader, founding the Seymour Manufacturing Company, the Seymour Trust and the Seymour Water Co. He was a Civil War soldier and was active on boards and commission in town.
The family had six children – five girls and one boy.
For several years, the building housed an eccentric restaurant — Carousel Gardens.
Former owner Paul Sciaraffa believed the building to be haunted, and allowed ghost hunters from around the country conduct investigations there.
Steeves said she doesn’t believe the building is haunted, and wants to shed that part of the building’s reputation.
The complete makeover helps.
Steeves, and her husband, a contractor, have refinished floors, installed beauty equipment, primed, painted and polished almost every square foot of the home.
The former bar is now a cafe, overlooking the teaching salon.
Old bedrooms now house a library and office — with bright open windows allowing magnificent views of the Valley.
“It’s very bright and colorful and happy,” Steeves said.
“It’s kind of old looking, and yet it has zebra print everywhere. And lots of chandeliers,” Steeves said. “It’s very glamorous. Glamorous and sexy. And that is the beauty business.”
