Impossible Homes: the Houses that Haunt Your Dreams

The Writing Home Challenge: Week 9

Fillip Dujardin, D’Ville 007, 2012. Source. Searching for images for this post, I came across this image by Fillip Dujardin that immediately felt resonant.

Fictional houses

A “house” dream. A big old barn conversion. I was changing the arrangement of the lower floors ... The upstairs was much as it has always been and I was on my way through to that perfect room perched high up over everything to see if I could make the access easier. Squeezing myself through a tiny doorframe on the way, I thought “enlarge that for a start.” I noticed some damage to the roof. It didn’t seem to be letting rain into the house (it was over an “open” part of the building) but I needed to check …

(Dream diary extract, 25th January 2010)