The Doll House It is Actually a Human House [Architecture]

This very old farm house on the Canadian tundra feels like any ordinary farm house from the front. You then get to its back and discover that it truly is really a playhouse for human-sized dolls.

Back in 2007, Saskatchewan artist Heather Benning decided to get this old farm house that after sat on her father’s land, rip apart the entire north facade, and cover it with plexiglass:

We used to have an abandoned farm on my father’s land where I grew up, and I used to play there a good deal once I was younger. I’d play within the house. I needed to expose the passage of time … I was in a position to show what it seemed like before it was left, but then what it seems like now, you know, 35 years later. I chose to depart the porch on there, that is rotted out, and [leave] everything to peer quite rustic on the skin.

That’s why she painted the internal like a real doll house. She did it so well that, just by the choice of colors and furniture, it tricks the brain into thinking it really is the true thing:

Then again, we all live in life-sized doll houses. Some of them with glass facades too .

Now, time has passed again, and the house is totally abandoned, rotting away off Highway 2 near Sinclair, Manitoba, Canada.

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