When I was a child I didn't realise that people wanted to live in the countryside.
I also thought allotments were shanty-towns because I couldn't conceive of anyone choosing to leave a proper building and huddle in a shed surrounded by mud.
That's all changed, but I still don't understand why people build miniature rural replicas inside city houses.
Take this two bed flat on the Hornsey Road:
Battered stainless steel wardrobes, distressed floorboards, grey everywhere. It's all very post-industrial and urban until you get to the wooden logs:
Thanks to Kate in the Attic for finding this.
That's all changed, but I still don't understand why people build miniature rural replicas inside city houses.
Take this two bed flat on the Hornsey Road:
Battered stainless steel wardrobes, distressed floorboards, grey everywhere. It's all very post-industrial and urban until you get to the wooden logs:
There's nothing sinful about little-house-on-the-prarie fantasies, but why live one out on the Hornsey Road?
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