Welcome to Gaia! ::

Their apartment is originally Adelbrecht’s, but since they discovered they were destined to be partners as a weapon and technician, living together was the most logical solution. Taking in account the fact that Adelbrecht is “a bit” of a perfectionist, and that Anastasia doesn’t really care where she lives as long as she has a comfy bed and a kitchen, they decided that Anastasia will simply move into his flat.

The flat was bought by the Lacroix family, which in eagerness to make their Adi feel just like home, chose an apartment a bit too big for just one, with rooms that even Adelbrecht had no idea what to do with.

Entering the flat from the hallway, you will find yourself in the lobby. On the right side, there is a simple modernistic-designed wardrobe, and a low shoe cabinet of the same style next to it. Most of the time, every jacket or cloak and every single pair of shoes is neatly stowed away, settled in perfect order even within the wardrobe and the cabinet – at least that’s how Adelbrecht’s attempting to keep things.

Five doors lead from the hallway; two pairs on the opposite sides, and one directly ahead. The door directly ahead leads to the main living quarters, more precisely the living room, which then gently passes into the dining room and kitchen. The living room is nearly exclusively black and white; or, more precisely, it would be if it wasn’t for Anastasia’s … stuff. The floor is covered in white laminate, creating nearly an overdose of whiteness together with the immaculate white walls and snowy white curtains hanging ceiling-to-floor next to the enormous windows. The sitting garniture is designed in a modernistic style of rectangular forms, and made of expensive black leather. Several small white pillows are placed neatly in the corners of the garniture. Hung on the opposite wall, there are some shelves, all crafted out of the exquisite dark ebony wood, and a large flat-screen TV. To liven up the room a bit, a plant is placed in the corner; it’s the sturdy Dracaena fragrans, also known as the tree of life in some countries. Anastasia named it Vladimir.

Passing through a simple door-less arch, one would enter the dining room with the kitchen niche. Its walls are painted bright orange – which does startle at first, but boosts creativity and encourages appetite, and goes lovely with the bright birch wood of which the dining table is made of. The table is designed for six, but despite its size manages to look elegant, and fits into the room nicely. All of the chairs around it are cushioned with velvet orange seat-pads, and shaped ergonomically to provide the maximum comfort while enjoying your delicious meal. The kitchen niche, being a part of the same room, is also designed in the orange-theme, and lit brightly by several large windows. Small lights are placed strategically to provide light directly to the working surfaces. Despite the obvious effort into making the kitchen look classy on the outside, it actually includes all of the modern appliances and every part of kitchen ware you’d ever need. A small door indicates the entrance to the pantry – basically a clean dry room filled with shelves and cabinets of the most basic food ingredients. There are no “just add water powders” in this home.

The balcony can also be accessed from the living room; it’s not really that large, but hardly small either, just enough for the two residents to sit there, comfortably drinking their favourite tea. A few flower boxes are hung on the elaborately curved iron fence, most of them containing delicate flowers, which Adelbrecht waters with care. One of them – the largest actually – is full of various fragrant herbs which Anastasia uses for cooking.

Returning to the hallway, let’s see where the other doors lead to. The first door on the left is the storage room, a small cupboard-style room used for putting away things they don’t need but have to or want to keep anyway. Probably the only place in the entire flat that Adelbrecht doesn’t even try to keep tidy and in order.

The first door on the right is the bathroom. It contains every single thing a fine hotel bathroom should have; plus, it doesn’t have only a shower, but a rather large bathtub as well. Despite the wc and the bathroom being in the same room – much to Adi’s discomfort – the wc and the bathroom part are actually separated by a thin emerald tinted glass divider. The colour theme of the bathroom is green, all the way from the nearly pastel shade of the wall tiles and the grassy-green floor mats, to the dark emerald floor tiles.

The second left and the second right door lead to Anastasia’s and Adelbrecht’s rooms respectively.

Adelbrecht’s room is dominated by blue colour theme; starting with the hardly coloured sky-blue walls and bed linen, all the way to the royal blue carpet on the white laminate floor and the curtains of the same colour hung next to a floor-to-ceiling window. This is the one room that is always tidy and in order, Adelbrecht’s little kingdom. Not a single thing can be seen left lying about; everything is stored in either the large closet next to the door, or the low chest of drawers lining the wall, ending up as a wide desk. There isn’t much else to be said about this room; when Adelbrecht is away, it looks almost as if no one lived there.

Anastasia’s room will be designed upon her arrival.