Huize aan de Paling

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Huize aan de Paling sits half-swallowed by the dense North Brabant forest, its faded light-blue prefab facade peeling above an overgrown lawn where a weathered concrete path still leads to the double white doors. To the left, a glass conservatory holds a lone white chair and table, while the adjoining green corrugated metal building sheds panels onto the sandy ground, with brick piles and a wooden shed scattered nearby. A separate green mobile home, its wooden steps and horizontal siding smothered by tall grass, waits in a second clearing as trees lean in from every side. This is a quiet, slow decay—nature methodically reclaiming a domestic scene that has clearly been abandoned for years.

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