#brick

The picture isn't painted on — it's laid into the brickwork itself, different bricks for the different bits, so it's as permanent as the wall. And the wall belongs to a neighbourhood library, which apparently got its own decoration rather than a poster.

I couldn't find much on why it's a house, or who asked for one. What I did find is that the ground it stands on was seabed until the 1940s — the whole polder was pumped dry and the villages on it built from scratch, so nothing out there is much older than eighty years. A chimney with smoke coming out of it starts to read differently once you know that.