I am a fan of what my brother calls “house porn.” I could spend hours going through stacks of House Beautiful and Architectural Digest–and I have. So when a list of 50 Perfect Powder Rooms showed up in my inbox , I had to peek. There are some lovely ones, of course, but #26 prompted the following snippet:
A dark bronze vessel served as the sink. Its handles and ornate carvings made it better suited to catching the blood of a human sacrifice than to Ethan washing his hands in the twenty-second century. The soap squirter looked like it would have been more at home in Conan’s Hyperborean age.
“Are you a druid?” Ethan asked politely while standing transfixed in the doorway.
His host only smiled.
I have pulled pictures from magazines to serve as models for what I want to do in a room in real life. But I’ve also pulled pictures for places I’d never live in but my characters get to go to. Does anyone else do this?
For others who share my vice, here’s the link.
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