MOTHER'S ROOM

Up the stairs and the first door on the left is Mother's room. Mrs. Bates' has a Victorian, baroque, stuffy, upstairs bedroom. Ornate fixtures surround the room and strangely preserved Victorian artifacts including an antique dry washbasin, a nude goddess statuette, a cold fireplace and empty chair, an armoire-wardrobe with old-fashioned, high-necked women's clothes neatly hung, a vanity table with large mirror, hairbrush and comb. There's also a jewelry box (a bronzed sculpture of two crossed, lace-cuffed hands clasped in prayer) on the dressing table. Chances are if you come in here, you're not going to live very long because Norman certainly wouldn't invite you in.