I Love architectural stuff.
As for the look... Here's what tends to inspire me, there's a collection of miniatures which is not quite as cutesy as dept 57... it's david winters collection: http://www.davidwinter.info/wizardcastle.html   http://www.davidwinter.info/saireygamp.html
Some of the pieces are over the top cutesy, but there are others that inspire me, and I keep thinking about something that might fit a fantasy or a fairy, or with a right texture even a pretty realistic 18 or 19th century dilapidated look.  There's a logging cabin model I made, released here as a freebie that was inspired by his work. But, I'd like to up the ante on quality from that one.
If you like architectural kind of things, you've probably noticed things that meshbox designs makes - chikako here on rendo.  http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?Start=31&vendor=132485   His work inspires me too.

As for poser... Even thought I have half a mind of eventually offering some of the things I make (not out of this effort) for sale that's not my motivation, and especially not for this idea, so, as far as I'm concerned, things would not HAVE to fit poser. Most of my personal scene type rendering is not done in poser, and this idea is a personal interest kind of a thing.  

Being that my mom is an architect, I suppose just by osmosis I'm a bit of an architecture ..um... admirer shall i say, and have a huge pile of books on architecture, different styles, element sand pictorial references, catalogues... and if needed I can sketch up a set of reference plans.

One of the more vague ideas, I gather there are writers around here, sometimes I get inspired by reading a story, and feel the urge to illustrate it... 

LOL, perhaps I may be hoping someone will get interested in narrowing down some of the ideas. At the moment I get too many. ..  
Hmmm... I don't think I'm being of much help LOL   maybe it was a bad idea...

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