Heritage Listed, Art Gallery, Building. 01/23/2010
 Reg and I are loving our down sized life, It suits this phase of our life together as Reg prepares to enter his 70th year and is interested purely in eco therapy, enjoying well earned retirement. Our downsized hobby business, gallery caravan and downsized art works, fridge magnet art is not where I thought I would be when we set up our Buninyong Gallery to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We bought a two story dwelling on the Midland Highway at Buninyong for what became a successful, award winning gallery for eleven happy years of our life. We had to have wired in fire alarms and panic alarms installed with the home security systems, before the council would grant the permits for us to change the premises from the child minding centre and family home it had been, to an art gallery and home for an empty nest couple. I did think it was funny at the time that the bi laws insisted on greater security to protect a building containing art than it had required for a building full of little children. Lol J Well who can explain council bi laws? Before we left Buninyong, the council classified our gallery and home, which was built around 1970, as ‘Heritage listed’. Now that in itself was a joke as most of the building were less than 20 years old and it was of unremarkable design. The Heritage Listed laws dictated that not even the colour of the paint work could be changed without a written permit from council, (at a cost of course ), they even had the audacity to state that the paint used, should be Haymes Paint. . With councils looking over your shoulder and over dictating what you can do, can you blame us for preferring the casual lifestyle with an address, ‘Highways of Australia’? You can order the four fridge magnets that feature images of my art work, that I have used to illustrate this post, through the contact page of this web site. FREE Postage or shipping.    Comments Comments are closed. |
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