Big House

The Big House is a residential lot on Wanmami Island in which the Tiani family live.

Outside
At the entrance of this lot, there are two identical groupings of three tiki torches stuck into the ground. Around these torches are a variety of fauna which includes a couple shrubs and ferns. Between the tiki torches is the gravel path you walked in on. The path leads from the entrance and takes a slight leftwards curve before ending at wide wooden stairs. The steps are made with logs split in half and placed flat-side up. On either side of the wooden steps is a wooden railing made of branches, quite possibly from the same tree that supplied the steps.

After four short steps you come to a long wooden porch, this time made out reddish-brown bamboo. Along the sides of the porch hang decorative grass thatching. Straight ahead lies a carved wood doorway of the same width as the stairs.

The walls surrounding the house on the first story are made of a striking combination of thin, alternating vertical and horizontal bamboo framed by thick, dark brown lumber. The second-story walls, however are made of woven grass that has perhaps been dyed as they are still green. In even intervals down the side of the wall are bamboo struts of a slightly thicker diameter than of those used on the first floor walls. At the foot is yellowed woven grass which is reflected by free-hanging woven grass spanning 1/5 of the wall tops. This top grass is much the same as the grass seen hanging from the porch sides.

To the right the porch wraps around the far side and on the left, it opens up to a large hexagonal deck. On the far side of this deck are two small bongos connected together. Along the back side, against the railing, are two lounge chairs made of banana palm frond backing, woven grass seats, and a bamboo frame. On either side of the loungers are crude end tables made out of tree stumps. Not far from the house corner is another entrance way of similar make to the main one on the front of the building. Atop the house is a hipped roof made of wood and tiers of light brown grass thatching which are supported by what seems to be even more lumber underneath.

Beyond the deck is a good-sized pond in the shape of a short "L". Around the far sides of said pond are good-sized trees full of mangoes as well as a small [[The Simple Wheeping Willow|Wheeping Willow. These, in turn, are surrounded by orange shrubs, a small bed of pink phlox, and thick patches of grass. Following the property line back are two papaya trees and a very large Mangrove tree that towers far above the house, making the location easy to find in the island jungle.