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Vallarta Terrace - Apartment 404

Her apartment has been completely refurnished with Spanish colonial revival furniture, dark woods with ornate carvings and intricate embroidery. All of the windows are permanently blacked out but during the night the veranda is open and she allows the night wind to blow through her apartment. The walls are violently, almost garishly, orange with baroque painting reproductions and crucifixes and portraits of saints where possible. There are flashes of color here on the dark, contrasting wood surfaces and fabrics and pillows give a comfortable seating area.

Many books of fiction line her walls, mostly from the 19th century but also others from modern times. Invariably they are romantic, based on adventure or involve star-crossed lovers. Her bound tome of Shakespeare's sonnets has a special place upon her coffee table. The kitchen is adorned with shiny copper-clad cookware but it remains impeccably clean. Only her french press and her tea set seem to get any use. Her tea set is probably the only authentic antique in the place, a highly-polished sterling silver service that has been hand-engraved. There is an array of devastatingly cute aprons lined up neatly on the wall.

Her bedroom has a gold-leaf bed with white embroidered pillows and simple duvet covers. All of lighting is in the shape of candelabras and sconces that give the image of candles, though they have orange incandescent bulbs. Her bath is a clawfoot tub with rose-smelling oils and dainty soaps all about, a large wardrobe nearby filled to the brim with ballgown reproductions from costumers and rows and rows of shoes. Rugs adorn all the floors, and upon the veranda is a telescope and a cushy red papasan chair overlooking the city.