Danford House

Danford House

Grounds

Driveway

Exterior

Colonnade

Grounds

First Floor

Dining Room

Reception Room

Staircase

Second Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Grounds

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First Floor

• Entrance Hall: Dominated by the massive paneled stair hall with twin staircases that lead up, this is the entry foyer for the house. Though it clearly used to be more opulent, it still has an air of distinct class, even if there are obvious spots on the walls where art used to hang.
• Estate Office: Luther's office for the management of the household, only Eloise has keys for this office any longer. The only computer she owns is here, a run-down relic that hardly functions at all any longer. She does the bills by hand, writing out checks monthly and keeping file folders.
• Billiards Room: Once home to some very fine billiards and card tables, this room is now basically empty, its contents having been sold at Oz's emporium.
• Library: The family library with shelves built into the walls. Eloise can often be found here many nights, a fire going in the fireplace, a book in her lap and a glass of wine near at hand.
• Drawing Room: A room very nearly taller than it is wide, the drawing room never really gets any use any longer. The majority of its fine furniture has been sold, and Eloise keeps the doors locked and draped.
• Study: Something of a "living room" for the household, Eloise has allowed Robert to bring in a sofa, entertainment center and other such furnishings for this room. It is not uncommon for Robert and Miguel to watch TV here in the evenings, occasionally joined by Tina, Adrianna or Jaye. Eloise can't seem to bear to be in this room.
• Gallery: A wide hallway, this well-lit paneled passage clearly once housed a handful of paintings. There are only two small pieces left, which Eloise claims to be unable to let go.
• Reception Room: A seventy-foot long, twenty-foot high ballroom with walnut paneling, gilded cornices and multiple fireplaces, as well as an impressive elevated bandstand. It has seven French doors that open out onto the back lawn and once overlooked a wide, pastoral scene that is now rather overgrown and somewhat wild.
• Terrace: Though the terrace used to see summer parties hosted out here, and Eloise and Luther watching Becca play in the yard, it tends to remain abandoned for the most part, a dirty stone surface with several seasons of fallen, dried leaves. Only Miguel occasionally comes out here to play when he is in the yard.
• Dining Room: Once the household's formal dining room, the furnishings here have been sold. Eloise keeps this room locked and almost never opens it, and insists that the draperies remain over the main windows when she must be in here.
• Dining Room 2: This room serves as the household's dining room. Eloise is very strict about the eating of meals in the dining room, insisting that watching television or doing something else while eating not only causes indigestion, but is a mark of low breeding.
• Kitchen: This room serves as the household's main kitchen. Though she isn't entirely useless in the kitchen, Eloise considers herself very blessed to have the help of April Fowler in the kitchens. For her part, April enjoys cooking large meals for a big family again, and being able to feed herself and her husband for basically free.
• Utility Room: Serving as something of a mud room and a storage place for the household's various tools.
• Garage: A very large garage, everyone in the household has space for a car here, though the van used by the Fowlers doesn't quite fit, and so remains parked outside on the drive.

Second Floor

• North Bedroom: This is Tina's bedroom.
• Playroom: This space has been turned into something of a living room for Tina and Miguel. The Alvarados also use the tiny kitchen just south of this room as a place for their personal foods (such as Miguel's snacks), but tend to use the kitchen and dining space downstairs.
• South Bedroom: This is Miguel's bedroom.
• Seperate Staff Flat: This small flat, right near the elevator, is kept by the Fowlers. It has a large bathroom (that has been adapted for Cliff's handicap by Robert) and its own tiny kitchen, as well as a living room with television and the Fowlers' bedroom.
• Bedrooms 15 - 20: The door to this old servants' wing is kept locked, and the bedrooms here are abandoned.

Third Floor

• Master Suite: This is Eloise's bedroom. She uses the Master Bedroom Dressing Room 1 as her expanded closet and dressing space, but has turned the Dressing Room 2 into a small sitting room, where she can watch television or read, with a small comfortable space. It is not uncommon for her to end her days here, watching television or reading, polishing off a bottle of wine or so while doing so. It's also unfortunately common for her to fall asleep here. As there is a door between them, Robert knows he is always welcome to come and sit with her in the evenings, or otherwise use this space as well; as a result, he has been the one to find Eloise and put her to bed on more than one occasion.
• Second Master Suite: This is Robert's bedroom.
• Bedroom 3: This is Adrianna's bedroom.
• Bedroom 4: This is Jaye's bedroom.
• Bedroom 5: This bedroom, and the adjoining apartment rooms, is kept locked and unoccupied at the moment, though they could be easily turned out and given over to another boarder, if necessary.
• Bedrooms 21-25: Like the rooms below them, these rooms are closed up entirely, and have been for years.

Fourth Floor

These bedrooms remain locked and basically abandoned. What good furniture is still left in them is covered with dust-cloths, and there is no power to this entire floor. As a result, it can be a little unnerving to look up from the center of the third floor suites, up to the open railing space into this floor.