[ Claude, for his part, is doing his best to (unsuccessfully) smother a smile at Hilda's hierarchy of house wishes as if there's a chance she's going to have to choose one out of everything. Sylvain has that handled, so he falls into step behind their leader while still studying the outside of the building and the grounds. Perhaps the inside is more promising than the outer grounds look without the benefit of hard work going on across it.
And as it turns out, the inside is in far better shape. More like rather nice shape, he has to admit when he stops in the middle of the space and turns in place slowly to scan everything in as much depth as possible. It takes more than one leisurely spin, but there's much to appreciate. This room hardly feels like the building they walked up to what with the ceiling stretching up into the rafters and the windows letting in enough light so it barely feels like they're inside at all. There's another smile carefully suppressed when Sylvain's first destination is the kitchen, though Claude himself goes to move to one end of the room by a glass-paned door which looks to lead out to some kind of terrace. He'll investigate that in a minute.
Now it's time to put those visions to work. It takes but a second for him to sketch where the space could be partitioned off into other smaller ones before walls even come into play. ]
This would be a nice sitting area thanks to this, [ with a point up at the ceiling above where a cache of windows all point towards each other to form a polygon of them meant to let as much light or night sky in as possible, and then next to a bank of windows lining the kitchen area in a small alcove, ] considering it comes with a view. And here would be a good spot if you wanted to grow, say, some herbs to put to use in the kitchen. The other side of it might be a good place for cabinets.
[ Claude might've been skeptical at first, but: there's near infinite possibilities here if they're truly allowed to customize it. Maybe that increase in enthusiasm will help Sylvain fidget a little less. A flash of a grin comes next first for the man in question and then their resident jeweler when he gestures to yet another well-lit area further out where a large workbench could fit with plenty of storage for everything to go with it. ]
Here's where your anvil can go, Hilda. Better yet, we won't put any walls around it so everyone can admire your work with a giant hammer.
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And as it turns out, the inside is in far better shape. More like rather nice shape, he has to admit when he stops in the middle of the space and turns in place slowly to scan everything in as much depth as possible. It takes more than one leisurely spin, but there's much to appreciate. This room hardly feels like the building they walked up to what with the ceiling stretching up into the rafters and the windows letting in enough light so it barely feels like they're inside at all. There's another smile carefully suppressed when Sylvain's first destination is the kitchen, though Claude himself goes to move to one end of the room by a glass-paned door which looks to lead out to some kind of terrace. He'll investigate that in a minute.
Now it's time to put those visions to work. It takes but a second for him to sketch where the space could be partitioned off into other smaller ones before walls even come into play. ]
This would be a nice sitting area thanks to this, [ with a point up at the ceiling above where a cache of windows all point towards each other to form a polygon of them meant to let as much light or night sky in as possible, and then next to a bank of windows lining the kitchen area in a small alcove, ] considering it comes with a view. And here would be a good spot if you wanted to grow, say, some herbs to put to use in the kitchen. The other side of it might be a good place for cabinets.
[ Claude might've been skeptical at first, but: there's near infinite possibilities here if they're truly allowed to customize it. Maybe that increase in enthusiasm will help Sylvain fidget a little less. A flash of a grin comes next first for the man in question and then their resident jeweler when he gestures to yet another well-lit area further out where a large workbench could fit with plenty of storage for everything to go with it. ]
Here's where your anvil can go, Hilda. Better yet, we won't put any walls around it so everyone can admire your work with a giant hammer.