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- Fairy homes emphasize height over width, allowing room to float. Social hierarchy is incredibly important in Fairy culture, and tall rooms allow those with higher social standing to float higher than those lower on the food chain.

- This home was built for kabouter residents. If a gyne was born and raised in this house, the guest bedroom (purple bed) would be repurposed as a preening room once he comes into his adult wings. Following the gyne’s death or departure from the home, it’s custom to turn the preening room into a guest bedroom again rather than letting the space go to waste.

- Strict separation of noisy social areas from quiet resting areas upstairs; children don’t play upstairs with their friends, but play downstairs beneath the watchful eyes of adults. If you and your friends try to sneak off, you’ll likely get reprimanded. Socializing should be in the social area. It’s not uncommon to block the bottom of the stairs with a curtain. Some bold Fairies may choose to have no stairs at all, and simply poof to bed.

- Focus of the main room is open social space (Note the absence of even a bathroom on the main floor). Plenty of room for movement. Bedrooms are cozier, with less room to maneuver; Fairy homes encourage the family to socialize together in the main area.

- Houses are well insulated and built to keep out the cold (Very useful for a species who live in the clouds but can’t thermoregulate). Only very wealthy families have fireplaces; the addition of a fireplaces requires the addition of a cooling system too. Thermostats are very new to the cloudlands; Pixies have adopted them, but most Fairies haven’t.

- The trellis out back is decorated for the seasons (Similar to a Christmas tree, but decorated every three months - See Fae Celebrations).

- Electric lights were included in this build, but electric lights are new to Fairy World and don’t exist in most Fairy buildings. Candles, oil lamps, or lamps made from stars are more common light sources.

- Keeping rooms were the standard when H.P. was growing up, but in a modern Fairy house, the living area and kitchen are separated (Contrast with the small half-wall kitchens Pixie architecture is best known for). Large kitchens feature plenty of elbow room, many cupboards, and an island counter (Bar stools make the kitchen a possible social area).

- Walls have light, cheery colors (Usually pastels). The corners are sharp and neat (No slanted walls here). The walls aren’t too cluttered; Fairies may hang portraits of relatives or godkids, but they don’t favor landscapes (Contrast with Anti-Fairies who value painted landscapes over portraits). Round windows are common.

- Sleeping rooms and mating rooms (also called affection sites, or yidreamu) are generally separated in Fairy houses and apartments. This custom has its roots in Fairy heat cycles (Female Fairies can only mate once or twice a cycle due to their reproductive parts breaking off like a male bee’s, and those take time to regrow even with magic). Mating is therefore a special occasion for Fairies and deserves a special room.

- At the low point of their cycle, Fairies are much more interested in snuggling than mating. The yidreamu is used for snuggle sessions too, not just pairing (hence “affection site”). As time passes, Fairies grow increasingly interested in kisses. They mate at the peak of the cycle. After this, interest in mating drops off again and returns to snuggle sessions.

Heat cycles vary by subspecies and sometimes don’t line up regularly between partners; Fairy World’s strict caste system arose long ago in an effort to pair children with cycle-compatible partners.

- Fairy homes will always be built with a yidreamu off the master bedroom; even “one-bedroom” apartments will include a yidreamu. Notably, poking around someone else’s yidreamu (a stranger’s or a relative’s) is a major faux pas in Fairy culture.

Peeking at someone’s yidreamu is the social equivalent of walking in on them mating; you wouldn’t even ask an interior designer to go in there because that room is strictly for the head couple of the household to design to their liking. Not a guest room. Definitely not a guest room. Massive faux pas if you treat it like one.

- Flowerpots with three yellow wands sticking out of them like flowers are very common features in Fairy homes; they’re colloquially known as “soul carriages.” In Fairy culture, they represent the three parts of the soul and are used to represent relatives both living and dead. If you’re a Fairy, then each member of your kinship circle (AKA family members living and dead that you have met or heard of and are on good terms with) should be represented somewhere in your home.

Immediate family members are traditionally displayed in the public eye while the soul carriages of relatives whom your neighbors aren’t likely to know are normally kept on shelves upstairs.

Notably, Mama Cosma refused to keep a soul carriage in her home for Wanda until after Poof was born- an absolute insult in Fairy culture, since according to tradition, she should have built one for Wanda the moment she learned of her son’s marriage.

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Related: Fairy Class Overview || Anti-Fairy Design || Pixie Design

- Monochrome color scheme of grays, whites, and blacks.

- Whenever possible, Pixie rooms are not as boxy as rooms of Fairy design; slanted walls are expected. Overall, Pixie architecture is angular but flows smoothly.

- Pixie apartments are intended for sleeping, storing clothes, and washing up. Socializing within the apartment is not a priority, so you won’t see many seats. When off the clock, pixies most often socialize in the recreation building, where they can work on their hobbies and converse with others in a larger space (Hobby items are stored in locker-like closets, freeing up space in the apartment for life essentials).

- Most apartments feature a desk with a computer in the entry hall. Pixies may love technology, but they generally keep electronics out of the bedroom. You wouldn’t see TVs mounted on the wall, laptops in bed are shunned, and even those who stay up on their phone don’t stay up long. If you work in Pixie World, high-quality sleep is a must.

- The ceilings of Pixie rooms are not as high as those of Fairy rooms; for Fairies, expressing dominance or submission in quiet but visible ways (like floating height) is incredibly important because it keeps the peace without stepping on toes. Pixies, composed entirely of gynes and drones, are sensitive enough to pheromones that they identify rank instantly and constantly without requiring the strict floating positions of the Fairies.

- Pixies certainly don’t have separate sleeping and mating bedrooms like Fairies do- their culture discourages those affections to the point that they didn’t keep that crucial element of Fairy design at all. If a pixie does mate, it will most likely be done outside of Pixie World entirely; this contributes to the stereotype that pixies are an innocent, submissive race.

- Bathrooms are never connected to master bedrooms directly; there is always some sort of hall. Pixies are neat freaks and distinguishing the rooms clearly is a must. No one wants to sleep with their head near a bathroom door.

- Note the cushioned benches in the bathrooms- these are for sitting on while pixies clean each other’s wings. Fairies normally clean wings in the bedroom (which is usually where dressing occurs) while pixies are more likely to dress in the bathroom following a quick shower and a toweling off. This reflects the differences in each culture’s time management; Fairies tend to ready themselves for the day leisurely, sitting in bathrobes and eating breakfast, while pixies are prompt creatures who get in and out.

- Few decorations, even on shelves. Bookshelves (if any) hold textbooks, Da Rules, dictionaries, and citation guidelines instead of novels.

- Floors are tile or wood; carpet and stone are not common. Pixies use electric lighting instead of torches or oil lamps.

- Half-wall kitchens are signature to Pixie design, providing more openness in a small space. Expect a coffee maker in every Pixie kitchen, even though they’ll probably buy a cup on their way to work anyway.

- Dining tables are not staples of Pixie architecture. Rather, breakfast nooks provide small tables and a few chairs. Some pixies prefer the table farther from the wall with four chairs around it, though two usually serves just fine.

- Worth mentioning that most pixies don’t do their own laundry. Laundry workers rank among the lowest of the Pixie social hierarchy, so when pixies return home they might find folded clothes waiting for them. Or, clothes might ping on top of them if they were in bed at the time (Blame Rosencrantz).

Related: Pixie Class Overview || Fairy Design || Anti-Fairy Design