5 rooms, 5 completely different evenings.

The ceiling is a galaxy and the far wall is the Earth seen from orbit. A crescent moon the height of a person stands where a screen would normally be, there are candles along the ledge, and the seating is a low curved bed of cushions rather than chairs. The glowing table in the middle changes colour. This is the room guests name in their reviews, and the one we set up for proposals more than any other.

Warm wood, a domed ceiling laced with rope and hundreds of small lights, a white grand piano and a ship’s wheel for a table. The screen runs along one wall and usually shows open water. Deep blue banquettes wrap around the room with more cushions than anyone needs. It is the warmest room on this address and the one that photographs best.

Grey panelled walls, a marble fireplace with candles in it, a gilt mirror, a saxophone on a stand and a deep green velvet corner sofa. Daylight comes through tall curtained windows, so this is the one room that works as well at five in the afternoon as at midnight. Two armchairs in oxblood velvet, a marble table, and a chandelier of mirrored spheres.

Faceted black walls, black floor, black ceiling, heavy silver curtains and a projector hanging in the middle of it. A brown recliner sofa faces a wall-sized image of a city at night. Dozens of candles do all the lighting. Nothing in here competes with the screen, which is exactly the point.

A living wall of leaves and flowers, ivy over an arched window, a copper ceiling with a mirror ball, string lights everywhere and a forest running across the projection wall. Long low sofas in blue, red and brown, a swing seat by the window. The brightest and friendliest room here — birthdays and anyone travelling with children.