Possible Clues:

• Writing in great novel? An Attic Room With A View, perhaps!
• Setting for much of 'La Bohème'
• High quarters
• Top-floor or attic room
• German paintings with the Queen reflected in an upper chamber
• High spot seeing stocking support half raised
• Slip up in gunroom
• Dingy loft
• Inhospitable attic
• An artist might starve here