Friday 2 January 2015

Giving houses for Christmas

A gift hint for urban sketchers - you can give people a drawing of their house, even if they live on the other side of the country.  You don't have to be there, because Google Streetview almost certainly has been.  I was actually at my sister's red-brick house in Kingston this fall, but didn't think to take a picture.  So, the all-seeing eye of Google to the rescue...

The other little house is The Viking cabin at Hollyburn, in the hey-day of its pink phase, long before Google.  The cabin, we are told, was painted pink by a former owner as a protest against some restriction placed on his architectural ambitions by the municipality.  When we acquired it last summer, it was an inglorious brown, and on - or mostly fallen off - its last legs.  Fortunately a few old photos and a bit of imagination let me restore it, at least in the drawing for Kelly.  The real cabin we had to disassemble, salvaging non-rotten logs, hauling painted parts down the trail and to the landfill, and burning the unusable clean wood.  Next summer, we'll build a very similar replacement.  But not pink.  Purple maybe?  Chartreuse?  Or perhaps just natural unpainted wood...



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