O-o-o-h, You Want PICTURES of Biltmore Estates!

Well, we have a few pictures of the outside; inside pictures were not allowed. 

When you first arrive at the (remaining) 8,000 acre estate, there is a stone entrance guarded by a wrought iron and (presumably) gold gate.  Once through there, one is given directions at the first intersection either to the house or the Antler Hill Village and Winery.  If you're headed to the house one passes under a highway:

and to several locations for parking lots.  We park and hop on a small bus to be carried to the front door of the "house." 

All 250 rooms of it.  (For our basic ticket price we got to see 44 rooms - and it took about an hour and a half. We didn't go the extra $10 apiece for the audio headsets; we probably should have.) 

Through the front door and...

that's the last indoor picture we were allowed to take.  I have searched high and low (and will continue to), but I have not found interior pictures anywhere.  I suppose pictures wouldn't do the rooms justice, what with 20 - 30 foot ceilings and rooms up to 90 feet long...  The architectural details are stunning in person, but I suspect they would lose something in the translation to photos.

No pictures?  My only option was to whip out the iPhone and take notes - lots of notes:

Arched column passages
Sunken glass domed entry
Domed ceilings
Taxidermy up high
Buffalo eagle sheep fish elk
Cloth covered domino tables

Exquisite woodworking carvings
5 Tapestry from 1500s
70' ceiling
Triple fireplace 6' high
Andirons 3' tall
Pipe organ !
Gallery 5 carved panels gold relief

Doorway drapes
Brkfst room ( always served lunch)
Carved Marble door frames

Bay window wall
Busts
Life size portrait of architect, Olmstead
Draped Tapestry ceiling

Music room, upholstered ceiling beams
5' deep fireplace
WW 2 stored priceless art here

Tapestry gallery big enough to put our whole house in - used for tea n music

Library ceiling, painted canvas w/chicken
Napoleon's chess set
Book gallery
Carved marble mantle
Carved wood wall above
Looking glass size magnifying glasses on study table
5' high globe

Stone stairs
Bedroom mantle shelf starts at 10' high
Quarter-sawn Oak walled sitting room

Fans on Christmas tree
Louis XV Room
Doors details

Basement ? Bachelors qtrs?
Ping pong. Bowling. Nudes?
9 changing rooms

Heated Swimming pool
High dive garden

Exercise room, rowing machine, p bars

Kitchen area:
Fresh fruit room
Walk in canned goods room
Walk in fridge (in 1890?)
Preserved foods room

Maids rooms - 5

Pastry kitchen
Rotisserie Kitchen
Main kitchen
Copper cookware
Butlers pantry n dumb waiter

20 seat servants dining room

Fan room to power pipe organ
2 Florists rooms
Brown laundry
Main laundry with huge belt driven barrel washing machine, 5 sinks
Drying room
Bachelors wing: off main dining room
Smoking room
Gun room off right side of house

and we're out the door.  But there are a lot of outdoor pictures!