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To help you get the appearance of rooms right how about using a floor plan or 3D house designer program for your computer? These can be quite inexpensive and very useful for designing new colour schemes and DIY projects for your real house as well as fictional ones. A good example is Real Homes Magazine 3D Designer. You can find this at Dream Direct (www.edream.co.uk) for £29.99. Once your floor plan is set up you can click any wall to change its colour scheme or add wallpaper. Drag and drop furniture to add it and move it around. When you've finished, the whole room - or whole building if you've done several connected rooms - is brought to life on screen in realistic 3D and you can walk around it as if you were really there. This really does allow you to get your settings exactly right, and allows you to visualise your story taking place there. To create a set of rooms from scratch can take quite a while to do, so you might not want to consider it for a single short story. But for a series of stories or a novel it would certainly be worthwhile spending some time on. These programs are very easy to use and also allow you to view the setting in different lighting conditions, so you can alter the mood and atmosphere in seconds.

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