The room had recently had the dviding wall between two smaller rooms knocked down to reveal one big central space on the first floor. The beams were exposed and the wooden floor had been sanded perhaps even polished. It had an underground archetctural feel with good natural light coming in through I do not remember the windows. It is the floor I remember.
We found somewhere the white paper. It was before the time I embraced the worship and manufacture of paper - that cam 10 years later. This was for me in my first year at university, where I had my own residency room in the heart of Notting Hill Gate. By contrast The Room was in deep South London - Catford, and as I've said opposite the Graveyard.
For me, the area represented the opposite of the future, I imagined it as I imagine Bowie thought of the suburbs of South London, not too far from this spot - as a dead end, opposite the graveyard - somewhere to escape from. - Bowie's Suburban Life