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by ramesh31 697 days ago
It's neat as an art project, but we aren't hobbits. People like windows.
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> In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

> ... The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

While true, high ceilings with light scoops could be the rage.
> we aren’t hobbits

Speak for yourself