inspiration: http://www.maxmorinelli.it/MondoAnime/BestImages/Maison%20Ikkoku/MI_grandi/Altre/Ikkoku%20-%20kan.jpg

header: bright roof, side view, pure black letters on top, or horizontal wooden sign (scaling problems)

overall background: wooden wall texture, tiled, subdued

image indexes: window frames around images, maybe pair images in "double windows"

single image: wall texture "zoomed in", larger wooden frame

sidebar: either paper scroll or wooden "name sign", possibly dog house ( http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Courtyard/1802/anime/maison/soichiro.gif )

footer: grass texture with scrap of paper for copyright notice

sources:

http://mrtoga.org/~sabercat/migal.html
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Courtyard/1802/anime/maison/
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Courtyard/1802/maisonikkoku.html
http://www.cartoonparty.net/recensioni.php?titolo=ikkoku
http://pingshan.parfait.ne.jp/maison.html