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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 299994" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>First, make sure you have detailed photos, a special album of the place. Next, see if you can meet the new owner and let him/her know that if the murals ever need modifying or touching up, you'll do it (if the murals are kept).</p><p></p><p>Thirty years ago husband & I moved to the village where we live now. back then, the end shop in the arcade was a takeaway food place, specialising in seafood. There was a mural painted on the wall in a sort of bricked in frame. The mural was a portrait of a local bloke, a fisherman who was a real character. The background of the portrait was dark brown like the rest of the wall.</p><p></p><p>Then the business was sold. In the time we've been here, the business has been a dentist's, a hairdresser's, a real estate agency and is now a doctor's surgery. I remember the dentist painted everything white. The real estate agency had pictures hung everywhere of places available for sale. Filing cabinets all over the place. I asked one day and they showed me a venetian blind - the portrait was behind that. The portrait just didn't fit in with the business, but they covered it instead of painting over it.</p><p></p><p>And now the doctor has removed the blind and we can all see the painting.</p><p></p><p>The bloke the painting is of - he died over 20 years ago. He's long gone, few people in town even remember him. But the painting is still there, still valued.</p><p></p><p>So you never know...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 299994, member: 1991"] First, make sure you have detailed photos, a special album of the place. Next, see if you can meet the new owner and let him/her know that if the murals ever need modifying or touching up, you'll do it (if the murals are kept). Thirty years ago husband & I moved to the village where we live now. back then, the end shop in the arcade was a takeaway food place, specialising in seafood. There was a mural painted on the wall in a sort of bricked in frame. The mural was a portrait of a local bloke, a fisherman who was a real character. The background of the portrait was dark brown like the rest of the wall. Then the business was sold. In the time we've been here, the business has been a dentist's, a hairdresser's, a real estate agency and is now a doctor's surgery. I remember the dentist painted everything white. The real estate agency had pictures hung everywhere of places available for sale. Filing cabinets all over the place. I asked one day and they showed me a venetian blind - the portrait was behind that. The portrait just didn't fit in with the business, but they covered it instead of painting over it. And now the doctor has removed the blind and we can all see the painting. The bloke the painting is of - he died over 20 years ago. He's long gone, few people in town even remember him. But the painting is still there, still valued. So you never know... Marg [/QUOTE]
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