Does this sound like an okay description of a living room?

As my eyes slowly adjusted to the dim lights in the room I realized there was a small fire burning on one side of the wall, surrounded by a huge, brown couch and a rocking chair. I looked to my left and found a large dining table, with several chairs around it, a small closet with lots of dishes and glasses behind it, and several mirrors on the sides of the sort-of-seperate room. near the middle of the living room I saw three large, red sofas forming a U letter with a rather low table in front of them, with nothing but a large vase with three beautiful red roses sticking out, in front of the sofas, I found a rather big T.V stand with two units on each side. The units has several different animal sculptures on them. I couldn't see really well from the distance between but I could make out a tiger, a wolf, a horse and what I thought was a gazelle. I then realized I wasn't standing, but on a huge, leather chair. it wasn't very comfortable and it made my skin itch, but it looked very grand with the large black desk in front of it, with a computer on the desk. I looked over my shoulder and spotted several photo frames all over the wall, pictures of family and friends, along with several framed awards and certificates. On my other side I spotted endless shelves of shelves, coating the walls, filled with books. Many of these books were obviously special editions or collection items, and some looked at least a decade or so older than me. Several lit candles were hung on the sides and their plates were covered with dried wax. The candles were all lit, and looking upwards I saw several glass chandliers with candles on their plates. these two were lit, but no matter how many candles they hung up it would never be enough to light up all the whole room. near the desk, I saw several more large candles and smirked. I wondered how anyone could put a candle and a computer near the same area. I looked down and saw why I was freezing, no carpets covered the wooden floor, yet somehow no matter how modest the living room was it gave me the uncomfortable feeling that it belonged to an incredibly rich man or woman. Even though I couldn't see any money around, I could smell it and it was probably in a hidden safe, or somewhere under a block. Tons of it. I thought of what I could do if I got that money, but blocked these thoughts out of my mind and concentrated on where I was and how I got here.

Well, it's a bit wordy for just a description of the room...

I would suggest you give an initial description of the room in just a few sentences at the start. Then, make the character do something and add more detail subtly, in sentences like, "I stood up and stretched, looking at the picture frames behind me."

Does this sound like an okay description of a living room?

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One Response to “Does this sound like an okay description of a living room?”

  1. poorsias says:

    Well, there's a TON with "going down to the river"

    "turtle rocking chair" is throwing me a little.

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