Thread: Can someone please describe this ?

I want a full description of this very picture, I want details. I'm using it in the story I am currently working on, and it's kind hard for me to describe a place like this.
Can anyone help?
It'd mean a lot to me. :

By the way I am new to this place, so hello

Where is it? A European palace perhaps? What is the ceiling like? A dome maybe? What is behind the camera? More doors?

Not exactly sure what you are asking for.

Originally Posted by Caged

I want a full description of this very picture, I want details. I'm using it in the story I am currently working on, and it's kind hard for me to describe a place like this.
Can anyone help?
It'd mean a lot to me. :

By the way I am new to this place, so hello

Hi there!

I assume you can see that it's got red walls, spherical room, two pillars, etc so I'll just give my interpretation:

It looks like a grand lobby, or junction between other grand rooms. The doors most likley lead or, in the past, led to official
courts or offices (doors normally being required for privacy). If there were corridors behind the doors then the spherical room is the important place.

It could be a waiting area for people to gather before those doos are opened.

"The room glowed with the silent hum of natural stone, as if every mosaic tile in the elegant geometry of the floor remembered the violent circumstance of its birth from the crucible of wanton ages. It's doric columns joined earth and man-made sky with the grace of an arching willow, petrified by the ardor of innumerable stone-poets throughout the bygone millennia. The candelabra sat cold and expectant, jilted lovers wrought in iron withholding their waxen tears until the coming of blessed night."


or something like that I guess, ha ha.

I'm not sure if you are looking for words to describe the individual elements in the room such as 'sunburst' for the central floor pattern and 'alcove' for the location of the candelabra. Or are you looking for the technique of describing a character's sensual experience? 'The high domed ceiling made Bob feel small. His footsteps resonated around the large, empty room.'

Blend C.M.Aaron's literal description of elements and his personal pov with Glass Pencil's interpretive physical description and you have your setting perfectly in focus.

To me, this room evokes a sense of royalty and I expect that it sits within a large house. The rich colours of the walls brings a certain warmth to an otherwise barren entrance hall. The tiles speak of formality and class. The depiction of one door open and one closed makes me wonder what secrets are being shut off from the rest of the house. I want to venture through the open door and discover what else this magnificent home has to offer. The two lit candles indicate that this house is lived in. These candles in particular have not been lit to provide light as the entrance hall itself is very bright, so it would make me assume that someone has taken the time to light them. Since only two have been lit, perhaps they were lit with thought in mind - remembering loved ones who had passed on for example.

I am not sure if I am meant to comment on the image you attached of Britney Spears, but "Oh dear" comes to mind

Description of a setting stems from, and is influenced by, the character in that setting. So perhaps Bob is in that room, and Bob doesn't like the sunburst pattern on the floor because it makes him nauseous. He might then describe it as dizzying, or an orderly assault on the eyes. And perhaps Bob is a small man, and the high-domed ceiling only serves to exaggerate this fact. And maybe Bob is a commoner, more at home on a farm than in such an ornate room as this, and so the only way he could describe the rich red walls is by comparing them to rust.

I would probably start off with calling it a rotunda, the color of the walls a washed red. The floor pattern is concentric rings, collapsing to a sunburst or maybe eminating out from the sunburst. Never underestimate the power of perception and the ability to enduce or show optimism or pessimism, or to influence emotion by the way you describe a scene.

Into the walls are set two doors (direction of choice) and an overzealous candleabra into a depressed space, guarded by a floor to ceiling column on each side.