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The cabin

E1 E2 E3 E4 from Y0 On screen

Alsothe hidden house; the painted-over house; the one-window house; HOT WINDOW; house_painted_over.png; #FFC870

A small cabin with one lit window that the television painter paints into the ruins "just for me" and paints out without a word; the X-ray finds it ("I always put one in"), and its window's warm #FFC870 becomes the series' sign that someone is in there.

The host paints a little house with one lit window, says "That one's just for me", and covers it with three strokes of gold. Ten minutes after the break the X-ray finds it, and the only warm pixel in the radiograph is its window. Jefrie asks the question the series keeps answering: "...Is anybody home?" Every later episode hides a house or a window of that colour and never says why: Teo draws one and rubs it out, the x-ray finds a child behind HAB 3's window, Episode 3's protagonist is a cursor the colour of that window, Rosie stitches the house and unpicks it, and in Episode 4 the colour is all that is left: a caret, a glowing square, one warm stitch.

On the Y axisY0 = the night of Episode 1

E1 0 On screen

E2 about 60 Running

E3 55–63 Open

E4 about 63 Running

Ages at each episode come from the birth year and the episode's place on the axis, and are only as sure as the weaker of the two (their mark says which). Empty decades are drawn short, at the break marks. The cabin on the whole timeline →

What15 lines

Steel"The painter painted a secret house in the oil painting and then painted over it so that you cannot see it." {Aaron 2026-10-14} edit

On screenPainted with the Pencil, lower right in the ruins, with one window in the lightest mix, HOT WINDOW. {E1 11:13-11:16.5} edit

On screenThe host, as it sits on the canvas: "There. That one's just for me." {E1 11:20} edit

On screenThree opaque strokes of Cathedral Gold paint it out. {E1 11:20.5-11:27} edit

On screenPainted on DAY 4 of the painting's clock. {E1 S17} edit

On screenBox (1943, 427)-(2033, 503) in pixels of the 2400-wide painting. {Q-E1-02} edit

On screenLead white gives it away to the X-ray; its window warms to #FFC870, the only warm pixel. {E1 21:38} edit

On screenHost: "...Oh. You found it." / "I always put one in. Usually it's the part you paint over." {E1 21:28-21:32} edit

On screenCaller: "THERE'S A HOUSE IN IT." {E1 21:34} edit

On screenJefrie: "...Is anybody home?" {E1 21:36} edit

On screenIn Four Hands the host paints a new cabin where it was painted out, by a lake; its window lights on "And somewhere to come home to." {E1 26:35} edit

On screenFour Hands is cut away; the clean painting comes back. {E1 26:51} edit

On screenCredits: The Cabin ........ still there. {E1 S44; 26:55-27:17} edit

On screenIt flashes by with its window lit as the chaos runs the time-lapse backwards, and flies past inside the spiral tunnel. {E1 29:31; 29:48} edit

RunningThe window's warm #FFC870 became the series' colour for the hidden house. {Q-E1-02} edit

By episode18 lines

Earthlight

EggTeo draws a tiny one-window cabin on the west rim of Sheet 1's pit, dabs the window orange and rubs it out without a word; the orange ghost stays. {E2 02:57.5-03:02; EGG-03} edit
EggThe ghost is still on Sheet 1 in the last wide of his desk. {E2 29:15} edit
EggA papermaker's watermark of a small one-window house shows only through Plate IV's punched hole. {E2 15:53.8-16:00.2; EGG-13} edit
EggThe x-ray of the real base warms HAB 3's window to #FFC870, the only warm pixel: someone is home, a child. {E2 17:43-17:46; 28:40; EGG-04} edit
On screenRhyme: kaito_tsukimi's "one window lit"; hers is the one lit window in the flyby. {E2 13:44; 29:00-29:15} edit
On screenThe hidden page's end wall: a chalk window of four panes with an Earth in the top-right pane. {HIDDEN-01} edit
RunningTeo has never mentioned it. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §13} edit

Context Window

not released yet

EggThe cursor is its window: a warm #FFC870 block, the only warm light on the plane, blinking at 530 ms; lit at 0:07.42, out on its blink at 29:59.467. {E3 0:07.42-29:59.467; E3-EGG-01} edit
EggRosie's sampler stitches a small one-window house in walnut thread, its window warm. {E3 10:08-10:18; E3-EGG-16} edit
RunningShe unpicks it, leaving needle holes and one warm #FFC870 thread; built in S08, never checked frame by frame (partly verified). {E3 S08 NOTES; E3-EGG-16} edit
EggThe Cabin ........ still there, a leftover row in Bea's credits sheet, rolls again on the stadium screen. {E3 17:01-17:07; 26:39; E3-EGG-25} edit
Running~/private/house_painted_over.png was planned for the private listing; the listing never reached the film. {E3-EGG-04} edit
On screenThe hidden page shows house_painted_over.png (Episode 1's ghost cabin, 690 x 648), the only picture in the folder she would not open. {HIDDEN-02} edit
RunningEvery catch-light shaped as a small four-pane window: parked, not visible at 1080p. {E3-EGG-37} edit

Touch Move

not released yet

EggOnly its colour: the warm #FFC870 caret in Lantern's move box, blinking at 530 ms. {E4 0:44-0:46; E4-EGG-11} edit
EggThe x-ray lightbox's glowing square, f7, then d8 under the 1910 plate, in #FFC870. {E4 5:00-5:16; 19:40; E4-EGG-03} edit
EggThe one warm #FFC870 stitch at the centre of the x R inside the box lid. {E4 20:17-20:23; E4-EGG-21} edit
RunningA cabin with one lit window on a far hill of the knight's battlefield, painted over in gold by the next medium, was proposed and not made. {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 4} edit

Ties8 lines

On screen Hidden in Crimson Coil by the The host. {E1 11:20} edit

On screen The X-ray's "Usually it's the part you paint over." echoes the last line of the The Egg Stand story. {E1 06:53; 21:32} edit

Egg The habit is shared, unexplained, by Teo Varga. {E2 02:57} edit

Egg Its window warms over HAB 3, Noor Haddad's room. {E2 17:43} edit

Egg Its window is The agent's cursor. {E3 0:07.42} edit

Egg Rosie stitches it into Rosie's sampler and unpicks it. {E3 10:08} edit

Egg Its row is on the The credits sheet; its ghost is in The private folder. {E3 17:07; HIDDEN-02} edit

Egg Its colour is Lantern's caret and the warm stitch in the The piece box. {E4 0:44; 20:20} edit

Open7 lines

OpenWhy the host puts one in every painting. {E1 21:29} edit

OpenWho is home ("...Is anybody home?"). {E1 21:36} edit

OpenWhy the host, Teo and Rosie each hide a house and never say so. {WORLD_TIMELINE} edit

IdeaThe house is real and it is Rosie's: the house Episode 3's rework puts everyone in has one window always lit, and her warm stitch stays because the one it waited for came back. {series gather; eggs sweep} edit

Idea#FFC870 marks "someone is in there": a child in HAB 3, a session in a terminal, a warm stitch in a lid; a warm caret on a boy's tablet means an agent now runs there. {eggs sweep} edit

IdeaA later episode shows the house itself from outside at night: one window lit, #FFC870. {eggs sweep} edit

IdeaFor our own reference: the host's first cabin was the one he grew up in; he paints it out because nobody is home there any more, and paints it back by a lake only when he is sure nobody is looking. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit