Strangetown: Trading Places (Makeover Contest)

Guided tour:

Their new house sits on top of a hill overlooking Strangetown, but other than the local monitoring station it's quite private.

A path from the house leads to the family mausoleum situated in a shady corner of the garden, where Olive's parents, her three dear departed husbands, and that lying cheating no good scumbag Earl E DeMise who jilted her at the altar have been placed in their urns. Olive's sister Willow, mother to Ophelia, is laid to rest in a grave near the fountain, along with her husband. The water feature is supposed to be a comfort to them in their life in the great beyond. Or at least that's what the autopsy paperwork about their drowning Olive found in her desk drawer says anyway.

Then there are the graves under the trees. Townsfolk they don't remember. They have no idea what that's about.

And while Ophelia saw lights in the night and next day found evidence of a six feet deep hole having been dug behind the mausoleum, Olive refuses to speculate on who, what or why.

They do feel close to their family though, if only because the long gallery contains so many portraits of them. There may once have been a portrait of Earl E DeMise, but if so Olive won't say what's become of it.

But really, when she shakes off the non-memories of the old ancestors, Olive's a bit of a party person. She insisted they get a long, large dining table so that she could throw the biggest dinner parties. And if people are in the mood for dancing, there's a sprung ballroom floor under the carpet, which just needs to be rolled back out of the way.

Neither woman is really interested in cooking, apart from the necessities, but their kitchen is adequate for catering for Olive's parties and conveniently adjacent to the dining room.

When she's not partying (or digging), Olive likes to spend time reflecting in the library. As a form of meditative relaxation she sharpens pencils. She has lots of them on her desk.

And if sometimes when Ophelia's not around she sneaks through the hidden door in one of the bookcases and down into her secret basement, who's to know? Fortunately spacial awareness doesn't seem to be Ophelia's thing, or she might have noticed that the passageway is rather longer than the combined length of the library and part of the dining room would suggest.

The basement is Olive's really private place. Gardening isn't something she really goes in for, but she has found the dank dark corner under the basement stairs to be an ideal place to cultivate mushrooms. Sometimes she cooks and eats them, but mostly she just studies them under the microscope in her mini laboratory.

Ophelia is more likely to spend her me-time watching television in the lounge. She likes old black and white movies and sci-fi blockbusters.

There are more portraits on the entrance hall wall as you go upstairs, this time of Ophelia's grandparents.

Olive has an ensuite bathroom leading off her bedroom, which is convenient as she likes to wash her hands a lot. It's not always because she's been handling mushrooms.

And there's a spare bedroom next door, also with its own ensuite, just in case she should acquire another husband.

The main bathroom is mostly Ophelia's province, even though there's a small tower room leading off her bedroom which could have been converted to an ensuite bathroom of her own. She declined however, and said she was perfectly happy to walk along the hall.

This may have had something to do with the fact that she had other plans for that little tower room. Somewhat concerned about the short lifespans of many of her family, Ophelia has wondered whether there's some congenital defect in the family genes. Or something in the water. Whatever. Just in case, she's supplied herself with her own personal medical care facility, and she gives herself a full checkup frequently.

And just in case it's something in the air rather than something in the water, she goes up onto the roof and checks out the air quality daily. And because you never know whether it might be related to the weather, she has her own personal weather station in the corner turret room at that level as well.

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