I've had an idea......

[Feltwell]

I could extend on this - do this to my windows and I need never decorate or tidy ever again.........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-22819331

 

[DJH]

There's quite a lot of talk about it over here. We're sending nearly 800 Gardai up there to help protect the G8 leaders who, in turn, will be trying their hardest to force Ireland into reducing Corporation Tax which currently stands at 12.5%... Is there something Irish about that?? :roll:

Doug

 

[Ebenezer]

Great until you try and walk through the door!

These have been around for ages. Seen a few in essex over the last few years.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Similar idea here

None of the arched or oval windows are real.

 

[LadyArowana]

Oh dear, why is this giving me the idea that I want to print up a huge plastic banner with a picture of a glass and steel modernist box and hang it over the front of our lovely Georgian townhouse? I could leave it up for a couple of days and just when people were about to start complaining, roll it up for a month or two, way to go to tease the enforcement team :lol: ( sorry Gareth )

 

[Zebra]

I like your thinking LadyA. I was thinking I could print up a big picture of a beautiful, finished, gleaming bathroom, and hang it over the doorway of the filthy, temporary bathroom that I have.

 

[Lindyboo]

We have something similar but lower key in our local village. Most of the traditional shops have long since disappeared and along with a great many properties in the centre were scooped up for next to nothing a long time ago by a ‘developer’ with plenty of brass and no interest in the community he’s virtually bought (he lives ‘darn sarf’). As I understand it, it works out better for his pocket to leave the former retail properties empty, so the village council begged him to allow fake shop-window images, which he permitted, so it’s relieved the semi-derelict look they had.

Alas, the residential properties he owns have all been let out for ‘social housing’ which has, as one local tactfully described it, ‘changed the character’ of the village. Consequently no-one ventures out after 9pm, unless they’re looking for a brawl.

 

[Penners]

None of the arched or oval windows are real.

Ahem... I'm sure the esteemed Mr H meant to write "...is real."

Trompe l'oeil decoration is nothing new, and is not restricted to the UK. Have a look at this slideshow of the village of Carcès in the Var, Provence (not everything is phoney!):-

http://www.beyond.fr/villphotos/carces-photo-gallery.html