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Although the academy has many buildings, the main building is where most lessons are held, and where the common rooms, kitchen, and dorms are. This is known as the school proper - a large building with four floors and two tall stairwell towers with a room atop each built from large bricks of a dark grey stone. The tall arched windows at the front of the building are carved in a lighter stone than that of the walls, and are paned in thick, slightly blue-tinged glass.
Entering the courtyard before the front of the school proper, one can see benches tucked into the shady areas beneath massive trees and a few positioned in a loose circle about an interesting sculpture in the center. Walking across the courtyard towards the school, you come closer to the large arched doorway, you can see that an interesting design of plants and animals merging has been lovingly carved into the rich-stained solid oak of each door.
At a turn of one massive doorknob, the left door opens smoothly on well-oiled hinges, spilling light and visitors into a large common room panelled in the same rich-stained oak as the carven doors are made from. Straight ahead of the entry door is a wide and sweeping balcony, accessible by almost identical staircases at either end.
Atop the balcony are three doors, one in each corner and one large one in the center, all of the oak that seems so prolific in this building. The bannisters are smooth dark stone, though the stairs have been surfaced in wood and protected by a silvery-grey carpet - edged in intricate black designs - that merges with that covering most of the flooring in the hall.
The staircases themselves are almost a mirror image of each other - the one comes sweeping down from the left and curves to spill people out onto the lower floor to face the mouth of the other staircase, with the great door - matching the one above - under the balcony to one's left.
Beneath the balcony there is a doorway matching that of the one atop the balcony; a large, arched, oaken door. Either side of it are bookcases and a medium fireplace, about which are strewn chairs and pillows and a few low desks. Either side of the underneath of the balcony has one of these cozy little fireplace nooks. The bookcases are filled with books, dog-eared magazines, and scrolls.
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This large room is the first area a visitor to the school proper will see -
building is dark grey stone, thick walls, large bricks
the large oaken front doors are carved within and without with a strange pattern of plants and animals merging together in intricate coils
are flanked on either side by tall arched windows with thick glass
formed from a slightly lighter stone than the outside of the building.
The windows are usually covered by thick, heavy, silvery-grey curtains, edged with an intricate black pattern matching that of the carpet.
carpet is a silver-grey thing, same intricate black pattern, soft and deep enough to reach just below your ankles if you go barefoot
ahead of you the room stretches out, three doors along each of the walls to your sides, ahead of you a large double door leads below a balcony accessible by two staircases at each end
there is a matching door to the one below above the balcony and two doors in each corner of the balcony landing
either side of the door below the balcony are two large fireplaces and lining the curve of the wall under the stairs are big oaken bookcases stuffed with dogeared books scrolls magazines
walls are panelled with the same rich brown wood that the door is made from
spectral lamps dot the walls and give the room a warm glow
a few paintings are dotted here and there
there are bookcases along the wall space in the corners that stretch from the edge of each window to the first door along each side wall
soft chairs dot the room, some left in a reclined position
large heaps of big cushions are dotted around low tables, some of which hold open books or a game of cards
there are a few desks in the middle of the room, with soft padded chairs with low backs around them
hanging from the middle of the balcony is a large clock
----------------- Details:
big room for all the houses
two fireplaces under staircony, either side of door into lower classroom hallway
soft chairs, recliners
big cushions like indian ones
deep carpet
spectral lights (like gas lamps but magical)
bookcases
tables and soft chairs
paintings
clock
each corner of staircony leads into a stairwell tower, both lead down into kitchens, up into unused rooms, usually locked
stairs up to the classrooms landing
door under stairwell into lower floor classrooms
door into each small common room - some locked
door into the front courtyard
windows, heavy curtains
----------------- Notes:
colour scheme - rich woods, thick silver-grey carpet with black designed edgepattern, silver-grey curtains.
