Maison Garfield

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Maison Garfield is a fading Belgian house where each room holds the residue of an interrupted life—a once-celebratory space with peeling white walls and a red dragon mural now sits beneath hanging lanterns, while an expansive loft gathers papers, boxes, and debris under exposed beams and a wall of bare trees. Upstairs, a dust-choked attic bedroom frames an unmade wooden bed beneath slanted timber, and a darker bedroom holds maroon bedding beside a mirrored armoire and a desk scattered with the quiet evidence of daily use. Most striking is the mantelpiece lined with colorful Garfield figurines, their cheerful faces looking out over torn lace curtains, a large white V-shaped watermark creeping down the wall like a slow stain of neglect.

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