Alfredo dining room
The dining room is west of the living room and south of the stairs.
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There are two entrance doorways; one in the northeast corner and one in the center north wall.
There is one window facing south. It stretches the entire length of the south wall for this room. When the shutters are folded open above and below the window, diners can see the eastern edge of Whippetal Silo or the western slope of Pumice Hill. Between those two landmarks stretches the thickening growth of the Longgrass Plains.
The inside of the window has thick, heavy curtains in summer to keep out the day's heat, but in autumn those curtains are taken down and put into storage so that the strings of brightly colored beads can refract light throughout the day. Some beads are glass, others are crystalline chips. None are inherently valuable on most markets, but the entire "bead curtain" array (if brought as a single piece to show a potential buyer) would be likely to interest art appraisers in Samakar or Copan Shire.
Contents & Furnishings
There are three ornate servingware cabinets, one along the east wall and two along the west wall. A small table beside the door on the north wall has an antique lamp atop it, and the built-in shelf under the table holds a jug of lamp oil and boxes of beeswax candles for the dining table lamps.
There is a large rug under the rectangular dining room table in the center of the room. This is a well-maintained, genuine Pertimken, woven by the celebrated Silas Pertimken of seaweed-based fibers then "fluffed out" by his assistants with silk strands for long-lasting color. The rug alone would probably be worth the listed value of a deed for the smallest farms around Purgatory Gulch if someone could safely transport this rug to Morodar for auction.
The dining table is surrounded by twelve chairs. It has two small lamps, prepared with fresh taper candles every midafternoon to be ready for supper that evening, on top on either end of the table. This table does not have arrangements for someone to sit at the short ends, thus preventing anyone from having to fully face the window nor turn their back completely to it in order to occupy a position of "honor".
Special Properties
Someone who measures carefully might recognize that the doorway into the cellar is just out of sight beyond the western edge of the window, and of course some ways down. The furnace, therefore, is somewhere underneath the southeast-most dining position.
That seat does not seem to be unusually warm.
One cannot feel the thrum of heat traveling through pipes in the space below the floor, either.
I wonder how that was managed?
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Room, Common, Dining Room
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