Contest $300/7 days contest: Creative, modern and classy design for an unusual website

Brief Overview:
Our L Life is a website for people to meet, chat, share their stories, both real and fictional. Also, members will be posting general fiction, poetry, fan fiction stories relative to television series, as well as artwork and photography. Mature people.

Requirements
You can see the working example of what I'm after by visiting this website: http://www.jacksonfish.com/
This is a sample look, I'm counting for something a little bit more sophisticated.
The site has to have a fixed 1000px width, with background that will cover up to 1900px monitors.

Front page
Front page should consist of a 1/5 of screen size menu, that will lead to different subpages. The menu has to have a format of an old town with clickable buildings+text.
The list of positions in the menu is as follows:
Home - Home page
Forum - Discussion board
Reader's Cafe - A writers works in progress
Town Library - Completed works
Chat - Chat room
Photo and Art Gallery - Self explanatory
Contact - contact us form
(do not change the menu's positions)

The menu has to have a look of the old town. Every building will be another position in the menu (see attached examples and link provided).
I'm aiming at a mature look, greenish, maybe dark cherry, gold, beige & semi-dark colors, maybe to imitate a library,a classy bookstore or art gallery.
Boxes surrounding upcoming articles, featured books, featured forum discussions should have a distinctive look, maybe something like old picture frames.

Sample images (don't use them in your designs):



To see an example of what I'm after see: http://www.jacksonfish.com/ - the menu there is something that you may start with.

This contest is only for the design of .PSD, I'm expecting the designer to deliver very well organized, layered file.

The deadline for submissions is 16th Feb, 23.59 GMT. I will be giving feedback to the entries, and I'm hoping for many designs. Even if I will not choose the winner, I will be giving prizes for participation.

 

I just wanted to suggest you could try 99 designs as well for a project this big as a contest

 

I tried, but for some reason all the entries were crappy as hell

 

Ah I see I havent actually used them but have seen some good projects there that's too bad it didnt work out

 

Count me in!

 

Is stock allowed ?

 

yes, allowed. I prefer fotolia, but istock is also ok

 

just a reminder: slightly over 1 day left
under no circumstances I will extend the contest even by one minute, so if you want to submit your entry do it on time

 

I would like to participate, as it has a design show.

 

this contest is now closed