Inside, the house gave an impression of bourgeois solidity and comfort, with mahogany panelling in the hallway and on the staircase, heavy mahogany furniture and thick velvet curtains.
Initially, their new home, The Hollow, proves the perfect sylvan setting, but things begin to go insidiously wrong, and the new house gives every impression of being a sentient being, intent on the dysfunctional family's destruction.
Punk passed him by in the 1970s, acid house made no impression in the 1980s, and he has serenely ignored every subsequent pop trend to arrive at middle age unscathed, and still selling records.
Instead, we felt like house guests, an impression enhanced both by the slightly untidy tone of the place and by family portraits on the walls dating from the dim past into the mid-20th century.
Even for films that merely appear to be a single shot — like the Uruguayan haunted-house movie "La Casa Muda" (2010) and its American remake "Silent House" (2012) — the impression of a high-wire stunt remains a selling point, decades after Hitchcock's "Rope".
It even brought back the classic action of swatting, where an armed SWAT team is sent to a streamers house with the impression that they've murdered their family.
Horse fencing and the occasional historic home give the impression that the house is in a rural setting, even though the village, harbor and beaches are all within a five-minute drive.
While the upper floors of the five-story town houses give the impression of an office building or warehouse, the ground floor has a wooden exterior with discrete entranceways.
Why? Partly it's due to their bad reputation as filthy and deadly creatures (see below) and also because rats will flee sinking ships and collapsing houses, giving the impression of abandonment.
The relatively small study contains plans for the house and potential impressions for various elevations.
Start with the first impression your house will make.
