Polish painted houses

For the townsfolk of Zalipie, every day is a celebration since the isolated outpost blossomed into one of Poland's most iconic villages.

Traditional kachelofen in Zalipie, Poland.

90 year old resident of Louka, Czech Republic, Anezka Kasparkova, formerly an agriculture worker, is aiming to make her hometown just as picturesque as a little Polish village where everything was covered in colourful floral paintings. Kasparkova picked up the hobby from another retired woman who was doing the same vol

Anezka Kasparkova- 91 year old Czech street artist - Imgur

Hungarian folk painting covers walls and household items with the same intensive detail and color used in their embroideries. A decorative art tradition of brightly colored daily surfaces resulted.

Once upon a time, in a small Polish village called Zalipie, somebody painted a flower on their ceiling in order to cover up a soot mark caused by the stove. Ventilation was poor back then, and soot stains were a common sight in most if not all of the houses, and so other people started concealing the marks with their own little flowers until every house was covered in them.