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THE LIVING SPACE MEME

If there's one thing we know about imPorts, it's that they're a little... odd. And sometimes, their decor choices reflect that. Is your character a mad scientist whose walls are covered in frantic scribbles? A child who has found independence and realized that everything in their room can and should be covered in a layer of glitter and T-rexes? A medieval man who has decided, ah yes, walls, the perfect place to display my twenty-five swords.
We want to know, and so do your poor, poor housemates!
STEP ONE: List where your character lives!
STEP TWO: Describe the pertinent details about their living space, whatever that may be!
STEP THREE: THERE IS LITERALLY NO STEP THREE THIS IS THE WORLD'S EASIEST MEME.
Have fun!

Heropa 18
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- The house is this color, only it glitters in the sunlight on account of the metric ton of glitter Mabel poured into the housepaint back when she was fully feral instead of only mostly feral
- this couch is in there somewhere. did Mabel make it or rescue it from being burned? the world will never know!
- mabel and dipper share a room! mabel's side is covered in band posters (rip marceline and the scream queens) and her version of the red string conspiracy wall, which is just an elaborate matchmaking scheme. she knows when you are sleeping, she knows how your date went back in April (she does not know how your date went)
- she leaves craft supplies e v e r y w h e r e. In the living room! the kitchen! better clean out the lint trap on the dryer before doing a laundry load or your clothes are gonna be covered in secondhand glitter
- she is generally chill with people watching whatever they want on television! she just wants to have some background noise while she scrapbooks
- there are at least 20 scrapbooks in that house, and they are constantly being added to
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There is now a dog called Steak Meat/Meat Steak. Big ol' Newfie who loves to sit on Dipper. The cats like crawling under Meat Steak, so sometimes you go to pet the dog and it's like winning the animal lottery.
Two imPocreats have joined the house, a ghosty robot and a punchy robot. The ghost one mostly lives in the attic and hovers over Dipper while he's doing video editing, while Punchline holds things for Stan.
everything is still terrible in this hellhole of a house
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and anything lexa finds laying around that she could reasonably assume is a weapon is getting put in a dresser or closet somewhere
(also there are probably candles everywhere, though usually only the ones in lexas room are lit because she knows where she lives)
The Midnighter
As his apartment is something I think about to a probably unhealthy extent... here is his apartment as designed in the Sims:
It's a two-story open loft with newly added on gym and monitor rooms. M's a fairly neat guy so there's not a lot out of place, and he's only just now starting to add personal touches to his place such as pictures of him and his close CR, and items picked up from various places, like the bad doujin he picked up at the imPort con swear in a few months back. It's also home to his Dragprawn from the imPocreat swear in, which has its own set of toys and fluffy bed.
M's cabinet's are 99% filled with Peanut Butter. Why? Because it's canon.
More sims pictures of his apartment:
Kitchen | Back corner | Downstairs Bathroom | Living Room | Living Room (better angle) (note: the old-timey radios should be large, modern black speakers) | Dining Room | Billiards Area | Gym 1 | Gym 2 | Monitor Room 1 | Monitor Room 2 | What the Monitor Room should look like if The Sims had such items | Upstairs | Bedroom | Changing Area/Laundry Room | Upstairs Bathroom | Upstairs TV/Desk
NONAH #005
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a list of pets
NONAH 5 HAS LOTS OF ANIMALS. Seriously, they could start a petting zoo. These animals are appropriately therapeutic to how stressed out or stressful their humans are. Except probably Ikki's birds. They're like his evil minions or something. Or maybe they just want to be fed???
The basement is full of dwellers and possibly monsters. Visitors are encouraged to 1) be invited into the house because there are a couple layers of magical protections on it and 2) be wary. Don't step on the various things lying around the floors???
HEROPA #11
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- every appliance in the house has been taken apart and put back together at once. Heropa #11's probably gone through two radios already. One radio is now a clockwork lizard that doesn't do JACK SHIT but hey it stopped the radio from playing Wham, the Doctor doesn't care.
- the Doctor's got three hermit crabs that hang out in a badass humongous crabitat in his room complete with tiny little hammocks and everything. Their names are Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras. aside from that, his room's organized chaos with soooo many plastic bins of taken apart electronics that he stole & can't bring up to the attic. Attic is work space, his bedroom is crabs + storage + occasional sleeping when the Doctor remembers to sleep.
- there's always at least one sort of dish in the fridge that barely looks edible because it has yet to fully impress on the Doctor that you can't just remove ingredients while you cook even if some of them are deemed stupid. Sugar is needed, just put the damn sugar in the cookies, it is not that hard. Lots of fruits & vegetables that the Doctor can just straight up eat, no need to prepare. anybody who brings home pears might find it ~mysteriously~ in the garbage can the next day.
- motherfucker plays guitar at 2am. he's slowly learning the thing called "humans have a proper sleep schedule, don't fuck it up" but look, it's gonna take a while.
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-He has formally decided, hey, you know what? FUCK BEDS. His bed has been given away, and it's been replaced with a mat on the ground that he sleeps on instead. His room seems otherwise free from adornments, because he lives an extremely sparse lifestyle, but he has:
1) A (caged) tarantula by the name of Charlotte.
2) A (caged) opossum by the name of Murray, who is in possession of an enormously crooked jaw
3) PLANTS. Somebody stop him from just making his room into a greenhouse.
4) A single cushion that he uses to sit on.
5) A Valentine's card from Mabel that he has hanging on his wall.
He has very few earthly possessions, so if he receives gifts, count them as being fairly prominently displayed on his wall!
He plays his lute thingy (though not at 2 AM like some people), and there's often the smell of essential oils or incense coming out of his room as he meditates. It's all kept immaculately clean, to boot, as is the rest of the house that Walker is permitted to touch. Even if the Doctor leaves chaos in his wake, somehow, it all seems to be tidied up at the end of the day.
Pevensie Farm
Kel
Kel's room is still fairly bare bones, but there's personal touches starting to appear. Her rack of weapons (sword, glaive, spaces for more as time goes on) sits next to her wardrobe, there's a couple, cheap maneki-neko on the night stand, and a small shelf of books, mostly leaning towards history books about war, and a few math books.
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There's two separate pastures and a round pen. Peachblossom and Phillip have to be kept apart for peace's sake.
Six
Six has squeezed himself into the fairly narrow attic space for three reasons: privacy, avoiding all the dogs (bleh), and because he's actually nocturnal, so he has an easier time getting to sleep of a day. His room is, er, austere: a mattress on the floor, a nightstand with a battery-powered lamp, a few rugs, and a heavy desk, atop and inside of which is a mess made by his various small possessions. He keeps his arms and armor on self-made shelves and racks on the walls; on calm nights he favors candles and an open window.
His chocobo, Hassle, has a home in the stables, which is where Six also keeps additional armor for himself and the bird.
Frederick Chilton's and Raina's Heropean Duplex + Plans
Individuals (Sam Merlotte, Will Graham, Abigail Hobbs) have had a habit breaking in, typically long after they've been invited thanks to the constraints of Sabriel's warding. Despite the enduring threat of this frequency, that intrusion alone isn't the reason why Chilton will be looking to Maurtia Falls as his new residency in a few months. If the new Ambassador can help manifest Chilton's vision, then he will want to be close to the Maurtia Falls Hospital for Behavioral Renovation.
Call it a potentially second home.
HEROPA 015
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Also he is super Spanglish-ing. All of the time. This is Spanglish House kids hope you have all kept in Spanish practice while you've been in MoM-land!!!
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- How well stocked the kitchen is by Jaime fluctuates depending almost entirely on his mood at the time. Good mood? Congratulations, you have lots of food, though particularly from the nearby Mexican market where Jaime's charmed the lady who runs the place. Bad mood? Cereal. So much cereal.
-He has habits from living with a biotic, so there tend to be tupperwares with post-it notes attached to it, either claiming food as Jaime's own, or one's that just say "anyone", which means anyone's free to chow down on it before it starts growing mold.
- The living room is where Jaime's made most of his mark; that's where he keeps his video games, his console (X-box), a stack of DVDs, and his netflix account. The first thing that all roomies are given when they move in is permission to use that space as they please. There's also almost always some rumpled sci-fi novel of varying quality and auto textbooks lying around.
- There's a grill out back that's used fairly regularly!
- He co-owns a dog - The Blue Beagle, AKA BB to everyone but him and Ted - who lives at Ted's place, but seems to make his way to Heropa 015 on a regular basis. His other dog that spends a lot of time hanging around is Ken Amada. Everyone be kind to this orange child.
- Maintenance on the house is typically done by Jaime! He keeps everything in good shape. This is his house, and he takes pride in it, and keeps things fairly tidy, albeit a bit cluttered.
JAIME'S ROOM:
KINDA CLUTTERED. The most prominent feature that pops out is his corkboard! He's upgraded to a truly enormous one, and it's absolutely covered in pictures. His family and friends from home are on there (his parents and his little sister; his friends Paco and Brenda), but it's also covered with pictures of friends both from the past and the present. On the other wall, above his computer, is a secondary corkboard with articles and photocopies that he deems important tacked up, as well as the everpresent sign of WWTKD.
Otherwise, his room is a very lived in one of a very loved teenager. He has a pretty big storage unit shoved into the corner, and it's filled with everything from toolkits (he owns three because people won't stop giving them to him) to Disneyland souvenirs to dog treats...
I THINK THAT'S IT
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▮ The room will constantly smell like paint (oil, acrylic, & spray), and not necessarily in a pleasant way... because he will be painting his walls and floor! Once he's done and everything dries the scent/fumes will likely at least even out and not be overwhelmingly present, thankfully (unless he paints over anything in the future).
▮ On his floor will be a giant abstract eye, which is what he's starting with (despite it making more sense to do the walls first) because he believes it'll help protect and dispel evil from the house. The walls will just be painted-coated works in progress for a while.
▮ His bed will be dragged haphazardly across the room, although will probably end up just getting left in the middle (more or less) because he's small and can't even lift. His stuff (mixed paint supplies, sketch- and notebooks, other books??, clothes, shoes, etc.) will be kept on the bed because he'll probably be taking the blanket to sleep on the floor with.
▮ Bookcase/dresser/other bedroom furniture is Free To A Good Home, he doesn't consider himself needing either and they will GET IN THE WAY.
▮ Window is pretty much always left open.
▮ In general he'd spend most of his time in there as opposed to shared spaces, including for meals (unless invited). He's either extremely quiet or
He won't have too much of a presence around the rest of the house (besides the paint fumes), as he keeps his existence very self-contained out of habit after a few years spent traveling/homeless; pretty much everything he owns at the moment is kept in a bag he always keeps with him. The more ~*comfortable he gets (since he's a very familial person) he might spread out a little more, but even then it might be in more of a decorative way than a cluttery way.
Either way, he might leave some paint finger- or footprints around sometimes (sorry), or accidentally leave his glasses/paint water cups/shoes just, like, around if he gets distracted and absentmindedly forgets about something after setting it down.
Nonah 06
Aerith's room
There are plants everywhere, some in normal pots and some in hanging baskets. She's bad about keeping her bed fixed and she bought too many pillows. She prints off all her photos from her phone because she's old fashioned and keeps them on her wall by her bed. She's fond of scented candles, fairy lights, and other things she can hang from the walls like bunting.
The walls are probably the same color they were when she moved in and, sure, she'd love to paint but her room's just too cluttered now so nah.
She has a secondhand vanity where she keeps her trinkets from stuff like Fanport. Most of the furniture she brought in herself is actually secondhand because Aer likes old things.
The fabrics are mostly earth tones and old-fashioned grandma floral prints.
heropa 33
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The Beach House in Cape Canaveral
More photos here.
The house itself is 3,776 square feet of living space on a 1.5 acre beachfront lot. It contains three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a living room, dining room, entertainment room, kitchen, bar, and an outdoor porch on every floor. An elevator goes from the garage to the top floor. The backyard contains a pool, hot tub, and barbecue area. A ramp leads straight to the beach.
The property is protected by Elsa Brandt's blood magic. It cannot be found without Jesse's permission, and cloaking magic causes it to look completely unremarkable from a distance. Observing the occupants is an impossible task, and even someone standing on the porch would be invisible to anyone looking in from outside.
Jesse shares the house with Joel Miller and Ellie Williams. Few people even know it exists. He tells people he's homeless and living out of motels.
This isn't Jesse's only property. He also owns a cabin outside of Maurtia Falls, and he's building more safehouses elsewhere.
Ted's shitshow apartment
Everything is pretty cluttered, actually, because Ted lives by himself and is kind of a slob. He mostly keeps his crap off the floor so BB can't eat it, but that just means the floor is littered with dog toys, particularly in the living room. Whatever keeps him from chewing the furniture, right?
The kitchen in particular is a disaster, and his fridge is always overstuffed with "healthy" takeout, because he doesn't really cook, but he's supposed to be eating better than he actually does. He's been in crunch mode on a project lately, too, so he's especially bad and has mostly been living on coffee, so there are about eight unwashed coffee mugs on his counters at any given time.
His bedroom is, surprisingly, the neatest room in the apartment, if just because half the time he conks out on the couch, or in his workshop, because he has the worst sleep habits ever. There's still a sizable pile of laundry piled up by the door to his bathroom, where the washer and dryer live and are never unloaded in a timely manner. There's also still a box of Booster's calendars and other miscellaneous crap stuffed into the closet, but the dog chewed up a corner of the box so it kind of spilled everywhere and now the closet is a mess.
Also there's probably a wrench somewhere in his bed. Ted's really great at being an adult.
Re: Ted's shitshow apartment
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Dorian & Toby's love nest
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- cleaning is still predominantly Toby but it's swapped from a 100/0 Toby/Dorian ratio to something more like 70/30. Dorian's putting in effort! he can learn!
- the New Toilet and New Couch are less shiny and new than before due to regular use which means that something in their apartment is overdue for breaking or getting ruined.
- Dorian has not yet really figured out how to best store his guitar in his cluttered room so it's just russian roulette for "where has Dorian left his guitar this week". His room is still cluttered but also more clean now than expected because you know Dorian had one of those moments where it's just "shit, I guess I'll have to clean this because something smells really off and I don't know what it is."
- super bourgie sheets, super bourgie towels. super bourgie hair care products as well, only the finest quality for these boys.
- the illegal drugs have been moved to like, the linen closet or something because when you have people randomly teleport into your apartment, not naming names or anything KLARION THE WITCH-BOY it might be a good idea to better hide the narcotics. the liquor still hangs out in the kitchen because Dorian knows Klarion's not going to touch that.
Heropa 20
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Francisco the chinchilla also has his cage in Piper's room, with a series of ramps for him to get in and out as he pleases. There's also a slide on the stairs so he can get up and down freely, because Piper's not about keeping him locked up. So yeah, there's pretty constantly a chinchilla running around the house, but at least half the time he's in a ball. The first of what will eventually be many, many rodents overrunning the house, I promise you this.
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It's as cool as he can get it and pretty barren. There are books on the shelves and there's a desk that usually has some brochures of various art museums and galleries on it. Since he doesn't trust the privacy, he has everything that could be more conspicuous - there might be some blueprints and schedules - in the locked drawers of the desk. Under a double bottom and the pens, pencil and usual utensils you'd expect in a desk.
The bed is between a single and a double in size, he sleeps with his back against the wall on one side of the bed when he sleeps. Usually he doesn't get a lot of sleep. The walls are barren. The only thing on the night-stand is a lighter.
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He also has a puppy. A little Dalmatian named Matches. She's adorable. In his room and in the shared space there's dog toys and and a bunch of other stuff for taking care of a puppy.
Mick also keeps turning off the A/C. Sorry.
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Also Piper is going to set sound controls on the AC and it will maintain a sensible room temperature and everyone will just have to deal with that. It's Florida in July, Mick, for christs sake.
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also PROBABLY THE BEST SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
HEROPA 16
Nonah Independent Housing
Basically it's a one-story house and one day Charles came home and Erik had added a library and a bedroom in the back and then asked to move in.
Imagine the library without the exposed air vent, and with both a librarian's ladder and a little slidey robotic arm. The bedroom is just really simple with room for clothes and a dog bed, basically the main feature is the floor to ceiling windows and doors to the backyard.
Eventually there may be a therapy pool and a gym, but that might not be for a few years.
I can't really think of anything else except they are going to give away king-sized candy bars on halloween.
Edit: Almost forgot, I did discuss with Lae that Erik would've helped Charles design the interior to be something I dub "masculine cozy", though I imagine they have a nice big airy kitchen.
klarion's tiny bachelor apartment!
Most importantly though, the walls, window panes, and the doorjamb are absolutely covered in magical wards that have been scribbled on with a sharpie marker. Klarion's booby-trapped the hell out of his apartment, and anyone who tries to get inside without his permission will either walk into the magical equivalent of an electric fence, or find themselves turned into something small and furry.
Maurita Fall 4
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Aurican currently lives in Maruita Falls 4, although he might move in with Kang's apartment but what is written below still stands.
His room is pretty sparse: a bed, a closet and a desk, but since he's a dragon, pretty soon that room will be filled with ... his hoard.
"Is it a treasure hoard?" you may ask. Why yes! But what kind of hoard really depends on the dragon species! I'm lifting this more from the Dungeons and Dragons than Dragonlance (since they are more or less the same thing), but gold dragons tend to collect priceless artifacts of culture, particularly of wisdom and other forms of knowledge or classic pieces of art. Aurican, being a sheltered and naive baby that he is, will more or less collect things that are considered junk - glasses, old books, particularly shiny rocks, ect.
But as his education increases and he learns more how to read, he will be quick to throw away junk and just make piles and piles of books and other forms of art, such as metalwork.
Just piles of the stuff. He's gonna be a terrible roommate.
Kang's Apartment
Xavier's School for imPorts
copy and paste w/e
(Look you can never be too careful!)
The only furniture Carl has in his room room is a single bed, a desk and a small bookshelf.
There's nothing much of decoration in there, except maybe a poster of a redwood forest. This room also has a duffle bag filled with weapons - Carl's personal stash, hidden underneath the bed. In another bag is an emergency bag of supplies - MREs, canned food, medicine and other medical supplies, anything you can think of, it's there. In that bag there's a large ziploc bag filled with the amount of one hundred dollars.
The books Carl have is a strange collection - some of them are just manuals of certain things, like how to fix a car or general outdoors-y manuals. There are a few fictional books, like there's the classics like Lord of the Flies (which Carl scribbles in the margins on survival failure 101, he really didn't like the book), Grendel, and The Heart of Darkness and there's plenty of native best sellers. But he reads a TON of comics and graphic novels, so those take up some of the space in his bookshelf.
Heropa #7
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- the socks she leaves everywhere. There’s probably a small collection under the couch.
- also pet toys everywhere.
- also the pets themselves. Jones the kitten and Jackson the wolf.
- because she’s tiny she has one of those little plastic step stools so she can reach things in the upper kitchen cupboards, she’s got a bad habit of leaving it in the middle of the floor.
her own room she makes the most royal mess out of that she can;
- floordrobe.
- cleanest thing in the room is the hermit crab tank
- since other people moved in she’s moved all her lego into her room. Most of it is on her desk, some of it is definitely on the floor.
- the walls are covered in drawings she's done. a lot of them are of her and her friends from back home, but chances are if you're buds with ripley she's drawn the two of you doing something and stuck it on her wall. she never takes any of them down either, so there's definitely drawings of folks who aren't around anymore.
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She keeps her stuff out of the main areas for the most part, leaving out a few fashion and girl talk magazines from time to time.
Her own room is kept a bit colder than most humans would find comfortable. Lots of film and tv posters! A whole bunch of plants in honor of her Uncle J'onn. She also likes to collect the comic books and action figures of her friends.
The Meadows
Current Residents: Gansey, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, Blue Sargent, Noah Czerny, Matthew Lynch and Henry Cheng. In other words, every Raven except Kavinsky, sorry Joe!
What: The Meadows is a patch of land, nearish to De Chima, which roughly corresponds to the location of Ronan's home (The Barns) in canon. Here it was an empty meadow, so a few months back, Ronan spent some weeks pulling the house and its contents out of his dreams. It is a weirdly shaped farmhouse that looks like someone started designing it one way and then changed direction halfway through. It works with 'dream logic', which basically means it's a little bit magical. There are appliances that work without being connected to anything, the sun somehow shines in every window in the living room, and both Adam and Blue have bedroom doors that only open for them. It's also slightly bigger on the inside than out, and the land is home to a various animals including ducks, chickens, two swallows that Kavinsky made, two kittens that Adam adopted, at least one dog, and a goldfish. And also anything else that Gansey's friends have adopted without mentioning it to him, it's amazing how often this happens.
All the Ravens have their own room, and there are also a bunch of spare rooms filled with Weird Stuff From Ronan's Dreams, which they can convert to extra bedrooms if need be. The full details for the house are here, although they need to be updated with the detail for Henry and Matthew's rooms.
Gansey's Room is not really a room at all, but a balcony that overlooks the main living room.
It includes a pool table, a sofa bed that he folds up when he can't sleep (which is often), a futon which he stress-bought back when they lived in De Chima, several mint plants that double as mood rings for Adam Parrish, a cereal box model of De Chima, the cage for the two Kavinsky-swallows and a goldfish bowl. Also, there are piles of books everywhere, and he promises that this apparently disorganised library is actually very much in order. This place is like home away from home for Gansey, he loves it here.
The Ravens also have several cars by now, including one Dream Camaro (called 'the Cub'), one very old, borderline unsafe hovering Camaro ('the Flying Pig' or 'Pig II', depending on whether Adam thinks it's air-worthy or not), Matthew's Mini Cooper and Ronan's Dream BMW (no names as of yet, Gansey is Disappointed in them). I may have forgotten some things, fellow Ravens please update this if so!!
Julian's place that he just moved into before he gets arrested
He also tried to recreate the troll wall, but since Kanaya is the only one here it's mostly just a Kanaya Maryam stalker wall. He also has the fledgling beginnings of a Doctor wall, tracking all of the Doctor's known regenerations.
There isn't much else. Bed. Table. Gimmicky gadgets he's been working on.