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Mamoru's place is a penthouse apartment in a seven-storey double-footprint building, thirty or forty years old, in Juuban Ward's little "downtown". Coming in through the elevator into the apartment hall, and then into Mamoru's foyer with its shelves of genkan space, it feels bigger. Going from there through a 'front door' with a stained glass window in it drops a body into an immense space, airy and high-ceilinged, where the sun streams in through the array of tall picture windows and the wide doors to the balconies. At night it's the moonlight and the stars and city lights, or the warm and brightly-colored tapestries that pull closed to block out prying eyes.
Decor for the apartment in general seems to be cream/off-white walls and brown and brass baseboards and detailing, and there are plaster mouldings on the ceiling, and there are tapestries on the walls, too. All around the apartment near-ish the ceiling there's a large cat run. There are a lot of plants in pots and none of them is placed under parts of the cat run that can be jumped from. The kitchen, already claimed by Makoto, is painted in sunny warm summer colors; there's enough room in it for a small table and a few chairs, the floor is a very pretty patterned mosaic in many colors, and the refrigerator is a communal bulletin board.
The apartment's main living space holds a comfortable scattering of antique (mostly) furniture, heavy and handmade and sitting on little carpet casters to be slid easily across the polished hardwood floor. There are a number of little rugs with no-slip grip on the backs, and there's a big kotatsu -- it's in easy view of a large mirror that hangs over a low bookshelf, and some remote controlls and videogame controllers lie atop that bookshelf. There's a plastic sheet tucked under each of the two couches. Various doors and corners -- even in this big living room area -- indicate it's even bigger than it looks at first sight.
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