#and a wood stove. wall mounted tv

[mattlauzon]

Living Room - Loft-Style

[sapphiccstudies]

Living Room - Contemporary Living Room

[krrjuus]

Rennes Open

[introvertedthinking]

Living Room - Loft-Style

[lecter-starling]

Living Room Library in Hertfordshire

[michaeldirnt]

Living Room - Rustic Living Room

[golshiftehnews]

Transitional Living Room - Living Room

[jawnwutson]

Rustic Family Room - Game Room

[legendasalvatoris]

Open in Salt Lake City

[hanayoyos]

Living Room Library in Hertfordshire

[sam-glade]

Happy WBW! What kind of houses exist in your world? Mansions? Cottages? Single family? Duplexes? Apartments? Castles? Space ships?

Hi Nopal, Happy WBW!

I'll answer for both DoD and The Fulcrum. This will get long.

Avia

In The Fulcrum, we have three cultures described so far:

The holy city of Lornai is located in seven ancient ziggurats that rise from the waters of a shallow bay. While they were initially made for creatures twice the size of avians, they'd been since split up into smaller rooms with wooden partitions. The lower the caste, the tighter the living quarters, and so ... starts off having just enough room to spend the night and store a handful of possessions, but it's just a tight hollow, not a place where she'd spend her free time. In comparison, a Priest's apartment is quite spacious, with a large nest of cushions and with a sand bath set up in the corner. Still, eating is done in communal areas, and nobody is expected to spend free time in their sleeping quarters, unless they're sick.

The avians living in the Sunswept Plains centre their lives around giant beetles. Their homes will have a brick or clay, circular foundation, and a conical roof made of beetle elytra. The elytra are amber in colour and a little translucent, and are often engraved and sections are thinned to make windows and patterns that light up with the sun.

The treefolk of the Wandering Woods live in the crowns of the giant trees, and shape their homes by weaving wines and branches, that will then grow into the desired shape. Similarly, vine bridges will connect the trees. They never cut into the trees.

Sunblessed Realm

I'll go through what we see on page in Days of Dusk, which is a more or less representative sample (except for city houses):

Cottages are anywhere from 1 to 4-5 rooms. They are often built around a large tiled stove (example picture) that keeps the house warm in winter. They vary between regions - can be wooden, can be brick, often plastered white. One element that's common to all of them though, is the memory shrine - a little shelf in a far corner or in the private room, decorated with a doily and dry flowers, where the mementos of the deceased family members are stored.

Especially in the second book, the characters consider the Army barracks to be their home, so I'm going to include those - uniform red-brick buildings, fairly modern by the setting's standards, with good plumbing and heating. Enlisted Swords will have small single rooms, with a bed, a trunk, a small desk and a chair, with shared washrooms. In comparison, senior officers would have larger apartment arranged in separate blocks around communal gardens, with enough space for a spouse and to entertain guest. NB, they'll also have an orderly to keep their living quarters tidy.

The manors of the minor nobility are honestly not huge - single-storey, 3-4 bedrooms, a dining room, a drawing room, a couple more smaller rooms/studies. The decorations depend on the region and on the family's preferences. These may include hunting trophies, woven rugs, paintings... but the House of the Sixth Tree was notorious for mounting firearms and engineering schematics on the walls, in lieu of artworks.

And of course these range all the way to the princes' greathouses, with dozens of rooms, a platoon of staff, collections of artworks and antiques, etc.

I'm going to also link the info dump on architecture and on folk arts, which include home decorations.

In The Truth Teller, the plot is contained within a city, and while the flats and the houses in the suburbs aren't that different from the real world, the appliances that might be surprising to see are radios (but no TVs) and stasis arrays (the works of crystallurgists) instead of fridges.

Also, this isn't a common housing situation, but Knacked tend to occupy single room apartments, often the least desirable ones, like directly under the roof. Lady Night is rumoured to offer hostel-style lodging and cheap long-term housing to Knacked folks, by remodelling large housing blocks to have single rooms, with communal kitchens and shared washrooms. But that's just the rumour😉

[whatwillheidiwatneyeattoday]

Music Room Family Room in London

Example of a large minimalist open concept light wood floor family room design with a music area, white walls, a wood stove, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[wnltl]

Music Room Family Room in London

Example of a large minimalist open concept light wood floor family room design with a music area, white walls, a wood stove, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[cebelamour]

Music Room Family Room in London

Example of a large minimalist open concept light wood floor family room design with a music area, white walls, a wood stove, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[exo-plushie]

Game Room Family Room Inspiration for a large rustic open concept carpeted game room remodel with beige walls, a wood stove, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[theautumnsociety]

Contemporary Living Room Living room library - large contemporary enclosed carpeted living room library idea with white walls, a wood stove, a plaster fireplace and a wall-mounted tv