Tuscan House Under Renovation [J. de Luce]

The front door stands ajar, revealing an atrium crowded with scaffolding rising beyond the roofline of the impluvium. The owner, Lalage, sits at the end of the impluvium directly oppposite you trying to choose among plans for the mosaic floor. The contractor has just returned with his crew of slaves and is impatient to start laying the tesserae. He suggests a design of brightly colored fish around the inpluvium with the rest of the floor a sedate white/black chevron pattern; she is inclined to pick a design of mythological scenes from the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
As you cross into the atrium itself, you notice that the ceiling in the guest bedroom on the left has been finished. On the right, the studiolum appears to be in use already.