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I have a question: While I was reading again Wicked Grace, I was wondering How does Hawkes's house and carpentry shop look like? :O I'm very curious to see how the rooms are disposed and place? :3
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OHH THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION!!!!! admittedly i don’t have any detailed floor plans designed so much as just Settings In My Mind Which I Try My Utmost To Convey but i’ll try to explain them in broad terms here! :D
generally speaking, the vibe of all hawke-associated zones (namely, his house, the carpentry and leandra-and-the-twins’ house) is very much that of the hawke estate from the actual game. it’s all very comfortable and warm. i always hear the hawke family theme in the bg whenever i’m writing scenes set in them lol. the hawkes all subconsciously gravitate towards dark brown and red furniture and they tend to be a bit on the cluttered side (though leandra is by far the most organized of the lot. conversely, malcolm was the most cluttered HAHA – carver has since taken the title over), so everything always feels really... lived-in! in a nice way! (as a lil aside, fenris’ place is the same way; i think garrett literally thinks ‘this place feels cozy and lived-in’ when he first sees fen’s place haha.)
but anyway!!! garrett’s house is a two-story house which he rents from meredith (who is also his neighbor) (yes that goes as well as you’d think). the ground floor has a spacious living room which is VERY cozy because garrett doesn’t joke around when it comes to coziness. it has red carpeting, an extremely plushy old sofa, a couple of armchairs and a tv set. there’s a low table in front of the tv (basically just a coffee table) and another table next to the couch with some family pictures on display. the domain of the 500 straws aka the kitchen is attached to the living room - you get into it by going under a pretty wide arch (it isn’t sectioned off from the living room by a door or anything; you can see into the kitchen from the living room and vice-versa, hence why characters sometimes have conversations across the two of them). the kitchen is your standard kitchen with its counters and normal implements and stuff, but it’s also really cluttered. not in the unhygenic way but... you know. cluttered. there’s a cupboard in there that’s solely dedicated to chip storage. maybe even two cupboards. maybe even… a pantry. anyway. a part of it is put aside for dining upon the famed table which fenris drunkenly called shitty, but garrett usually takes his food elsewhere. like he probably eats on the couch in the living room more often. there is also a downstairs bathroom that you can get to from the living room… which i don’t think has ever been mentioned in wg…? but there it is. HOT LORE OFF THE PRESS!!!! dgdflhk but jokes aside that bathroom also combos as a laundry room.
the staircase leads up from the living room! it has another arch entrance which matches that of the kitchen, but it’s smaller because obviously the staircase is a lot narrower haha. the top floor has garrett’s bedroom (with an attached bathroom), a guest room, and another bathroom (‘the guest bathroom’ aka the domain of merrill’s gift-soaps). that bathroom isn’t attached to the guest room, but it *is* right across the hall from it. the hall is pretty tiny but it has some cabinets set up along it for extra storage. garrett actually keeps a lot of his extra stuff at the main family house since it’s way bigger and has a really spacious attic/basement situation.
the hawke family’s carpentry is definitely a lot vaguer since i’m not a carpenter so i am 100% giving the au’s characters who are trained in such things their own free rein of the place LOL but it essentially has a reception area and an area that’s totally off-limits to (most) clients. that off-limits area has a bunch of rooms – the workshop being the biggest one, with its heavy-duty tools and machinery (saws, workbenches, dust collectors, etc. SHARP THINGS!!!! be careful in there). there’s also a large room designated for storage, a breakroom with an attached bathroom, and leandra’s office for more administrative stuff. everyone drifts about but you can typically find leandra in her office, morrigan in the reception area, and the hawke siblings and zevran scattered around the workshop if they’re not doing a house call. leandra is a HUGE stickler for safety so everything is really up-to-par in that department. obviously, the hawke family’s tendency to be a bit cluttered is suppressed a whole lot in the workshop. if anything is out of place for too long the wrath of Mother Hawke WILL be incurred and no one wants that. seriously.
in terms of notable décor, the reception area of hawke’s carpentry has few of malcolm hawke’s (rest in peace, king) woodworking projects on display. he did a lot of big wooden sculptures and the like so, you know… obviously… There’s Birds. A Certain Bird In Particular. I Wonder What That Would Be. (hawks haha – two big ones on either side of the entrance to the workshop, almost like pillars.) there’s also a huge plaque of the family crest which him and leandra made together back when the carpentry was brand new. it’s on display right behind the reception desk so it’s pretty much the first thing you see when you walk in. it was garrett’s inspiration when he made the shield that fenris would later claim as his own.
so there you have it – a little run-down of these lil garrett zones! apologies if this wasn’t as detailed as you were looking for, i tried to keep it on the more general side. :D ty for the question and the warm welcome back!!!
