Visitors enter through giant "royal" gates and stroll along an avenue lined with white birch trees before arriving at the 38-foot-tall Big Ben.

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Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.

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But the birch bark not white after all, as you got closer.

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Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some small, untidy evergreens, rolled up like sleepy bears.

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The sofa is a dove gray, while the kitchen, built from more stained birch, seems to disappear into the white walls.

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Others sit by the roadside in the shade of birch trees, bikes propped up next to them on verges dotted with pink and white cosmos.

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