apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Look! Fence of Colored Pencils

121007_coloredpencils.jpg

Photo uploaded by Saima

There are 2 mysteries going on here. The first is this: we don't know how originally took this photo, but to the photographer: thank you. This photo has popped up on a few blogs (mostly in London), which makes us wonder if this house is across the pond. Which brings us to the second mystery: we don't know who owns this fence, but to the owner/creator: you rock our socks off.

If anyone knows anything more about this lovely fence, please share! We feel that there could be a grand house tour lurking behind that rainbow penciled door...

Comments (9)

Judging by the window frames in the house it's definately either European or a former British Colony (South Africa).

Don't think I would want to live with the fence though...

posted by hdtex on 2007-12-10 14:58:26
view hdtex's profile

...and the post-box is a huge tip off. And the cobblestones.

posted by Bruised on 2007-12-10 15:13:39
view Bruised's profile

Cute! It would also be perfect for an elementary school or preschool.

posted by jems on 2007-12-10 15:24:18
view jems's profile

first thing that comes to mind is "picture pages, pictures pages, time to get your picture pages...."

posted by vertigo on 2007-12-10 15:29:46
view vertigo's profile

The fir tree next to the window appears to be a Nordmann Fir, which would probably mean somewhere in Northern Europe? Seems to me a well-travelled European could peg that mailbox.

posted by Kurt on 2007-12-10 16:20:15
view Kurt's profile

Can't place the mailbox but my ex-boyfriend's parents' neighbours in a tiny village in Normandy had big ol' pencils like these instead of fence posts in their post-and-wire fence. They were a pretty solemn middle-aged French couple so the pencils came as a really lovely surprise, especially as they were unpainted so you didn't notice until you'd already gone past them a dozen times.

posted by El Jinx on 2007-12-10 16:46:20
view El Jinx's profile

i love them. maybe your favourite colour pencil and only that colour would look less BRIGHT!

posted by venus_thames on 2007-12-10 21:17:49
view venus_thames's profile

I think I'm going to steal this idea, how cool!

posted by crash on 2007-12-11 00:31:47
view crash's profile

I think it could be Northern Italy, or Switzerland, of France or, possibly, Germany.
Definitely not Britain. They don't have windows like that in the UK.

posted by luce on 2007-12-11 05:21:46
view luce's profile
Buy Text Ads