Name
Ada Palmer

Date of Birth
November 27, 1969 (43)

Employer/Occupation
President, Peel, Inc.
More Than Skin Deep®

Description of Residence
140 E. Walton Place (The Drake Hotel), Suite 903.
1,184 square feet of hotel room - for no matter how beautiful the Italian marble in the bathroom, no matter how lovely the view over Lake Michigan, no matter how comfortable the expansive bed, it's still a hotel room - is by many accounts a lovely and luxurious place to live. Ada could never fault the tasteful cream and white on the walls or the warm chocolate browns captured in the carpet and furniture, the tasteful gold accents, the ample lamplight. It was all very beautiful, all very luxurious. But to Ada, it's still just a hotel room, just an address to use on her taxes. For the last few years, Ada has only just barely spent half her nights in this high scale residence.

She spends the rest of her nights at Peel, Inc.. Although her suite at The Drake has both a shower and a whirlpool tub, Ada uses the small shower tucked away in the private bathroom of her office a good three or four mornings a week. Likewise, a full-sized bed in the back room of her office ends up catching her after the long nights drop her. A set of pull-out drawers built into the bottom portion of the bed frame stores a pair of gray cross-trainers, four pair of thin, gray sweatpants, and a handful of ribbed tank tops in various shades of blue. She also keeps a well-stocked wardrobe in that room -- a strong showing of executive navies, power reds, classic creams, and pinstriped blacks. Apart from her business attire, there are a couple pieces of evening wear hanging carefully in the wardrobe - the classic little black dress, and a more elegant royal blue silk sheath - for the times when her nights include more than just office work.

The back room itself captures a better sense of her own personal style. Positioned in the center of the room, that full-sized bed takes up most of the space. Draped with medium gray sheets and midnight blue pillows, the bed itself is sinfully soft. Two small tables on either side of the bed serve as a lamp stand and a place to set her alarm. A padded bench at the foot of the bed gives her a place to slide on her shoes, and her mahogany wardrobe is positioned on the wall directly across from it, just beside the door itself. The appointments are simple, the space small, but everything in the room carries a thick air of quality. Although Ada doesn't use her personal rooms at the office as a 'home', per se, she feels more at ease in that simple spare room than she ever does at The Drake.

Apart from the furniture she picked out for her office back room, the only personal item in the room is a picture frame on the wall with a set of three rotating images - a distant and dignified portrait of her parents from the same year when Ada graduated college; her brother, age 26, in his U.S.A.F. uniform; and their childhood pet - a shaggy Irish wolfhound named Perceval.

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