Council paints homely scenes on boarded up windows to attract buyers in Burnley | Mail Online

Council paints homely scenes on boarded up windows to attract buyers in Burnley | Mail Online

With their newly painted front doors, puffed up curtains and fresh flowers in the windows they look at first blush to be dream homes for any first time buyer.

But take a closer look and the neat red and blue doors, bouquets of roses and newly drapes are merely paintings - designed as an elaborate disguise to persuade house hunters to buy derelict homes in a boarded up suburb nicknamed ‘junkie's alley’, in Burnley, Lancashire.
Council housing officials joined up with a housing association to paint pictures of curtains, vases and neat front doors on scruffy boards covering a row of empty two up two down terraced houses to look as though the homes have caring owners.