# Crystalrose Manor

> An elegant, whimsical home in light blue and dark wood, a fountain in its entry hall.

https://narunest.com/portfolio/crystalrose-manor

Style: Residence, Airy

District: Empyreum
Plot: Large

The idea: An elegant, whimsical, feminine home in shades of blue, built on the contrast of light blue against dark wood.

Crystalrose Manor is an elegant, whimsical and feminine home, mostly in shades of blue. The client likes the way light blue and dark wood contrast with each other, and that was the inspiration for much of the house: pale blue walls between dark beams and pillars, with wood paneling and wainscoting throughout the ground floor.

The entry hall opens on a round seat heaped with pink flowers, under a chandelier and lamps of blue glass hung with glowing blue lanterns. A staircase climbs to a fountain on display beneath three arched windows, floating lanterns above it and rose trellises either side. A bookshelf stands under a transom window, window alcoves either side of the front doors hold a guest book and a music player, and along the windows are pots for growing the client's beloved Thavnarian onions. Paintings of the area around the Empyreum, where the home is located, hang here and throughout the house.

Coming into the living room, curved walls define a nook for a seat and a round table with books, and a letter lies on the table as if put down carelessly by someone arriving home. Two leather wingback chairs face the fireplace, and a long window seat runs beneath the windows. A cozy spot to drink tea is nestled into a corner by the room's raised platform — a leather sofa, a carved armchair and a low table laid with a blue-and-white tea set — and the platform itself holds more formal seating: two navy and gold settees facing each other across a table of letters and a lit candle, beside a globe and a grandfather clock.

The dining room and kitchen are connected. Benches sit in marble-arched alcoves along the dining room wall, and an elaborate meal is laid out on the huge table: a roast dodo on a platter at its centre, candelabras, honey pots and a tea set among the place settings. In the kitchen, a long counter with a tile backsplash runs under a row of arched windows hung with teal curtains. Rose trellises climb either side, bringing the eye upward, framing the space and adding a sense of whimsy, and the darker wall at the back gives the room depth and grounds it.

Upstairs, a gallery looks down over the entry hall. The bedroom introduces purple to the palette, breaking up the mostly-blue house — purple curtains and rugs, and purple-leaved trees — and fanciful moon-and-star decorations hang among the curtains. Comfy cushions are scattered on the floor in front of the fireplace, a small desk sits in its own alcove with a window, and the four-poster bed stands under a marble arch at the end of the room.

In the dressing room and powder room, angled walls wrap around the vanity, and a long vanity follows their angles, holding makeup and accessories — an open cosmetics case, a palette of makeup, and a pink hat and a necklace on stands. Blue glass canopies hang over the windows and the arch to the bath, strings of crystals run along the walls, and a flowering tree grows from a round stone table. Across the room a wardrobe glows blue beside open shelves between more rose trellises, and a marble arch leads through to the bath: a white tub on gold feet under blue curtains, between glowing blue flower lamps.

What went into it:
- Light blue set against dark wood throughout, the contrast the client likes
- Wood paneling and wainscoting throughout the ground floor
- A fountain on display in the entry hall, with floating lanterns above it
- A bookshelf with a transom window above it
- Window alcoves in the entry hall holding a guest book and a music player
- Pots in the entry hall for growing the client's beloved Thavnarian onions
- Curved walls defining a nook for a seat and a round table with books as you come into the living room, a letter left on the table as if by someone arriving home
- A cozy spot to drink tea, nestled into a corner by the living room's raised platform, and more formal seating on the platform itself
- Benches in alcoves in the dining room, and an elaborate meal laid out on the huge dining table
- A long counter with a tile backsplash under a row of arched windows in the kitchen
- Rose trellises that bring the eye upward, frame the kitchen and add a sense of whimsy
- A darker wall at the back of the kitchen, adding depth and grounding the room
- Purple introduced in the bedroom, breaking up the mostly-blue house
- Fanciful moon-and-star decorations among the bedroom curtains
- Comfy cushions on the floor in front of the bedroom fireplace
- A small desk in its own alcove with a window
- Marble arches over the bed and the bath
- Angled walls around the powder room's vanity, and a long vanity that follows them, holding makeup and accessories
- Paintings of the area around the Empyreum, where the home is located, throughout

Key pieces:
- [Fortemps Sofa](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/30417) — Furnishing, Shadow Blue
- [Indoor Marble Fountain](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/37349) — Furnishing, ×3
- [Message Book Stand](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/6541) — Tabletop
- [Starlight Dodo](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/8802) — Tabletop
- [Rose Trellis](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/32221) — Furnishing, ×6, Coral Pink
- [Heavenly Ornamental Array](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/35563) — Wall-mounted, ×2
- [Glade Sideboard](https://www.garlandtools.org/db/#item/6623) — Table, ×4, Celeste Green

Photographs:
- The entry hall — a round seat of pink flowers and pale cushions on a teal rug, a staircase climbing to the fountain landing hung with teal curtains, pink-blossomed trees and red flowers in urns on the stair pillars, lamps of blue glass hung with glowing blue lanterns, and a chandelier overhead (caption: The entry hall, and the fountain at the top of the stairs.)
- The dining room and kitchen from above — a long blue-grey table laid with place settings, candelabras and a roast dodo on a platter, bookshelves and brass sconces along the wall, and beyond it the kitchen's arched windows, tiled counter, rose trellises and stools at the island (caption: The dining room, opening onto the kitchen.)
- The living room's tea corner from above — a leather sofa with teal cushions, a carved armchair and a low table laid with tea — beside the raised platform, its railing above built-in bookshelves, with a globe, a navy settee, a table with a candle and a tree in a white planter up on top (caption: The tea corner, beside the raised platform.)
- The bedroom — a four-poster bed under an arch at the far end, a lit white and gold fireplace with floor cushions in front of it, a purple-leaved tree, purple curtains at the sunlit windows, a purple patterned rug and a chandelier overhead (caption: The bedroom, in purple.)
- The dressing room and powder room — a long teal vanity running along angled walls under blue glass canopies and strings of crystals, a striped barber's pole at its end, a flowering tree growing from a round stone table, and the bath visible through a marble arch at the back (caption: The dressing room and powder room.)
- The entry hall straight on — the round seat of pink flowers with teal and pale green cushions, the landing wall behind it hung with small frames of butterflies and flowers, a sunset painting and a painting of a city of spires, dark wood wainscoting below, and lamps of blue glass either side
- The round seat on its swirling teal rug, the staircase climbing at the left, and a tall bookshelf under a sunlit transom window, with a crystal wall sconce and a half-round console table and lamp beside it
- The entry hall from the side — the round seat in the middle of the floor, the staircase up to the fountain landing, a painting of a city of spires on the wall, and pots set along pink-draped tables by the windows
- The staircase up to the fountain landing between two square wooden pillars topped with red flowers, pink-blossomed trees either side, framed butterflies, flowers and a sunset painting on the left wall and a painting of a city of spires on the right
- The fountain on its landing — a tiered marble fountain under three arched windows, brass lanterns floating above it, window boxes of roses and a teal swag over the windows, rose trellises and large-leafed plants in urns either side, and a small table with a book and a candle below against navy damask wallpaper (caption: The fountain, with lanterns floating above it.)
- Looking down from above the landing past brass lanterns floating in the stairwell — pink-blossomed trees either side of the stairs, a floral rug on the landing, and the round seat and front doors far below
- The bookshelf between dark wooden pillars, a transom window above it, frosted windows either side hung with crystal wall sconces, a lamp of blue glass with glowing blue lanterns, and a half-round console table with a lamp and books (caption: The bookshelf, under its transom window.)
- From above — the bookshelf and its console table, a crystal sconce on the window beside it, and through the doorway the dining room's long table and marble-arched alcoves, a patch of sunlight on the floor
- The front doors — carved arched double doors in navy damask wallpaper, a marble-arched window alcove either side with a music player with a brass horn in the one at the right, and in the foreground green-patterned pots of tall green shoots on pink-draped tables, brass lanterns between them (caption: Pots for the client's Thavnarian onions.)
- The entry hall from above — the round seat on its rug, and the Thavnarian onion pots in a row along the window wall on pink-draped tables, brass lanterns between them, the staircase and framed pictures beyond
- The entry hall from the living room side — the round seat on its teal rug, the onion pots on their tables beneath crystal sconces, the bookshelf, and the staircase at the far right, teal curtains at the left
- A window alcove under a marble arch, an open guest book and a quill on the small table inside it, the front doors beside it, and the hall running on to the living room's teal curtains and window seat (caption: The guest book, in its window alcove.)
- The nook as you come into the living room — a carved gilt armchair on a leaf-shaped rug, a round table with books on its lower shelf and a lamp on top, teal curtains caught in wooden rings at the window, and a cushioned window seat curving along the wall (caption: The nook inside the curved walls.)
- The nook from above — the armchair and round table inside the curved wall, a sealed letter lying on the table beside the lamp, a stringed instrument propped by the window and tall bookshelves at the right (caption: A letter, left on the table.)
- From above, two leather wingback chairs drawn up to a white and gold fireplace, a stack of books between them, a hanging planter of white flowers overhead, and a long window seat beneath the windows beyond
- The two leather wingback chairs close up, gold chocobo crests on their navy headrests, a stack of books between them, tall bookshelves behind and a table lamp by the window seat
- The tea table in the foreground, a carved gilt armchair at the left and the corner of the leather sofa at the right, and beyond them the two wingback chairs facing the fireplace and the window seat under the windows
- The tea corner — a tufted leather sofa with teal cushions under the window, a low dark table with a tea set, a carved gilt armchair, a purple-leaved tree in a barrel planter and a painting of a mossy forest clearing on the wall (caption: A corner for tea, by the raised platform.)
- The tea corner from above, white and pink flowers of a hanging planter in the foreground, and the sofa, tea table and armchair on a dark green rug below
- The tea table — a blue-and-white teapot, a cup of tea and a plate of cookies — with the carved armchair beside it, bookshelves built into the base of the raised platform, and the platform's globe and settee above
- The tea corner seen past a tall bookshelf, sunlight falling across the sofa and armchair, and the raised platform above it with a globe, a navy settee and a grandfather clock against navy damask wallpaper
- Up on the raised platform — two navy and gold settees facing each other across a low table of letters and a lit candle on a pink cloth, a lamp on a side table under the window and a tree in a white planter in the corner (caption: The formal seating, up on the platform.)
- The platform past a globe on a stand — a navy settee, the table of letters, a lamp and a tree in a white planter beneath teal curtains, and a grandfather clock against the damask wall at the right
- The platform's back wall — a grandfather clock between wall vases of white flowers on navy damask wallpaper, a bookshelf under a pink and cream canopy on a carpet of white flowers, and the two settees around the table of letters
- The raised platform from above — the settees with patterned cushions and bolsters, the low table of letters and a candle, a globe, a lamp, and a tree in a white planter, on a pink and green rug
- The platform's table close up — a lit pillar candle, letters and red sealing wax on a pink cloth — with a settee behind it and glowing white flowers trailing down the wall beyond
- The two settees face to face across the table of letters, a globe at the railing, and over it the wingback chairs and fireplace on the floor below
- The platform from above, past a hanging planter of white flowers — the settees and table, the globe, the canopied bookshelf on its carpet of white flowers, and glowing flowers trailing down the wall beside a pink flower lamp
- The living room looking back towards the entry hall — a white and gold fireplace with a wingback chair and a lamp on a side table at the left, a long window seat in the sunlight along the windows, and the hall at the far end
- The dining room from the kitchen end — the long table and its chairs on a swirling teal rug, a tall dark hutch between brass sconces on the far wall, bookshelves at the right, marble-arched alcoves along the left wall and a hanging planter lamp overhead
- The dining table set with plates on placemats, a lit candelabra, a brass lantern, a honey pot and a teapot, a tall dark hutch at the left and brass sconces with pale blue shades on the walls, a hall running away towards teal curtains
- Three marble-arched alcoves along the dining room wall, each with a cushioned bench — a framed butterfly in the first, an arched window in the second, a wall clock in the third — and the table in front set with a roast dodo, a candelabra, a honey pot and a lantern (caption: Benches in the dining room's alcoves.)
- The dining table from above — a roast dodo on a garnished platter at its centre, lit candelabras, honey pots, a teapot and place settings of rose-patterned plates down both sides (caption: An elaborate meal, laid the length of the table.)
- The table close up — a lit candelabra, the roast dodo on its platter, a honey pot and rose-patterned plates — bookshelves at the left and the kitchen's arched windows and teal curtains beyond
- The dining room and kitchen from above, the other way — the long table and its meal, brass sconces at the left, a painting of snow-covered tents and two marble-arched alcoves at the right, and the kitchen beyond with its stools, a bread rack and a pink cabinet with glass doors
- The kitchen from the dining table — a row of arched windows with teal curtains tied back in wooden rings, rose trellises at either side, a tiled counter beneath, an island with stools, and a hanging planter lamp overhead
- The kitchen straight on — the long counter and dark green tile backsplash under a row of arched windows, the darker wall around them, rose trellises either side, a rack of bread loaves at the right and a cabinet of jars at the left, and the island with its stools in front (caption: The long counter, framed by rose trellises.)
- The kitchen island with three stools, a brass lantern on a white runner, a picnic basket and a woven basket with a red bow, and behind it the back counter's tiles, brick oven and round white basin, with a cabinet of jars and a rose trellis at the left
- The counter close up — an open picnic basket of plates and a woven basket with a red bow beside a brass lantern, and behind them a rose trellis, a round white basin, a brick oven and a basket of produce on the sill
- The back counter close up — a brick oven with loaves inside and a cooking pot on top, the dark green tile backsplash, the open picnic basket and woven basket on the island, and two carved stools in the foreground
- The kitchen counter and windows, a rack of bread loaves under a rose trellis at the right, a pot rack hung beside the windows, and the island's lantern and two baskets in front
- The kitchen from above — the island counter with a teal runner, its lantern and two baskets, the stools in front, and the back counter's oven, basin and produce beneath the arched windows
- The kitchen from above, seen past white and pink flowers in the foreground — the island with its runner, lantern and two baskets, and stools with carved backs
- The kitchen seen past the dining table, a white water jug, a brass lantern and plates in the foreground, and the island's stools and the bread rack beyond
- The dining room seen from the kitchen island, a woven basket and the picnic basket in the foreground — the long table on its rug, the hutch on the far wall, bookshelves and brass sconces at the right and a cabinet of jars beside the counter
- The gallery upstairs, a long teal runner beside its wooden railing, looking down on the entry hall — the round seat on its rug, the bookshelf, the front doors and a chandelier
- The entry hall from the gallery — a chandelier overhead, pink-blossomed trees in planters and red flowers on the stair pillars, and the round seat and front doors below
- From the gallery, the chandelier above the staircase up to the fountain landing, the walls below hung with framed butterflies, flowers, a sunset painting and a painting of a city of spires, lamps of blue glass, and the bookshelf at the right
- Two carved gilt armchairs upholstered in navy either side of a dark carved panel, stacks of books and a footstool with an open book between them, and tall brass floor lamps with spiralled glass shades on a patterned rug
- The bedroom — purple curtains caught in gilt rings with gold moon-and-star decorations hanging among them, a wardrobe painted gold and blue between two teal and gold wall panels, the desk alcove at the left, and heart- and star-shaped floor cushions on the purple rug (caption: Moons and stars, among the curtains.)
- The bedroom fireplace close up, white and gold with its round grate glowing, and on the floor in front of it square purple cushions, a bolster, a pile of scalloped and star-shaped cushions and an open book — paintings in gilt frames on the wall and a purple-leaved tree beside it (caption: Cushions on the floor, in front of the fire.)
- The bed at the end of the room seen past the fireplace and its floor cushions, a purple-leaved tree in a barrel planter by the hearth
- The bed under its arch — a four-poster hung with dark patterned curtains, red bedding and a blue cushioned bench at its foot, lamps on small tables either side and wall vases of white flowers, the moon-and-star decorations at the window to the right (caption: The bed, under its arch.)
- The bedroom towards the bed, the small desk in its alcove at the right with a candle, a quill and papers, a carved armchair in front of it, and the floor cushions on the rug at the left
- The desk alcove — a small writing desk with papers and a hutch of drawers set under a marble arch with an arched window, a carved armchair in pale blue, a brass sconce on the wall and a purple curtain at the left (caption: The desk, in its own alcove.)
- The bedroom from floor level — a chandelier hanging from a plaster ceiling medallion between dark beams, the fireplace and a purple-leaved tree at the left, the bed at the far end, and a carved armchair in the sunlight at the right
- The room seen from inside the bed's canopy, between its dark patterned hangings — the wardrobe and wall panels at the far end, floor cushions on the purple rug, and a purple-leaved tree in a barrel planter by the fireplace
- From beside the bed, the chandelier under its ceiling medallion, the wardrobe between its wall panels, sunlight through the purple-curtained windows, and the floor cushions and tree by the fireplace
- The bedroom from above — purple curtains with moon-and-star decorations at the windows, the floor cushions on the rug, the wardrobe at the far end, and a purple-leaved tree in the foreground
- The dressing room — a long teal vanity of drawers following the angled walls beneath arched and square windows, a mirror, an open cosmetics case and a hat on a stand along it, a blue glass canopy and strings of blue crystals above, and a tall teal and gold panel on the wall
- The vanity close up as it follows the angled walls — an open cosmetics case and a vase of white flowers, a tall mirror and a white chair, a palette of makeup with a hand mirror, and a pink hat and a necklace on stands — and a round rug of teal and tan swirls in front (caption: The long vanity, following the angled walls.)
- A round stone table with a purple-flowered tree growing from its centre, a tea set and a lantern on it, the vanity beyond under a blue glass canopy and a chandelier, and white open shelves and a rose trellis at the left
- The vanity seen past a carved chair and the round stone table, a lantern on the table and the tree's trunk rising from its centre
- The dressing room from above — the vanity following the angled walls around a round rug, the stone table and its tree, a chandelier, and the bath's tub just visible through the arch at the back
- A purple-flowered tree on the round stone table in the foreground, the vanity under arched and square windows beyond, a striped barber's pole at its end and white shelves at the left
- The other side of the dressing room — a wardrobe with glowing blue glass panels open on hanging clothes, a pink flower lamp beside it, open shelves of books, shoes, a mirror and a coat between two rose trellises, and an open box of colourful cosmetics on the vanity at the right (caption: The wardrobe and shelves, between rose trellises.)
- The dressing room ceiling — a chandelier hanging from a plaster medallion between wooden beams, a blue glass canopy over an arched doorway hung with blue curtains, and tall teal and gold wall panels
- The bath — a white tub on gold feet with a gold standing tap and shower, under an arched window hung with blue curtains tied back in wooden rings, glowing blue flower lamps on white columns either side, framed in marble (caption: The bath, under its marble arch.)
- The tub and its gold tap beneath the arched window and blue curtains, a glowing blue flower lamp on its column at the right, and a marble arch draped in blue beside it
- A corner of the bath — a basin and an arched mirror on a dark wooden cabinet, a glowing blue flower lamp and the end of the tub beside them
- The tub and a flower lamp at the left, a marble arch draped in blue opening on the room beyond, a blue upholstered bench against the wall and a crystal wall sconce above it
- The bath from above — the white tub on a patterned rug between the two flower lamps, the gold tap and blue curtains at the window, and the blue bench at the right