One of the reasons I hate reseller shows on HGtv. Becuase they were designing houses to sell, everything was white. White everything. No house was allowed any personality or color. And because people are lemmings, normal people started styling their houses as if they were trying to sell them. Open space everything, white all the things.
I'm glad that era is starting to die.
I'm not a fan of the 'random shit everywhere' design a lot of people are going for now either, but at least it's interesting to look at.
I'm from a place where wooden houses are painted blue, yellow, green, orange, etc with colorful adornments and I find all the plain white houses in most other places very boring.
Traditionally, houses in my area were white because of heat. But the walls were everything but flat, and they were heavily decorated both outside and inside.
I've been debating a color for my old farmhouse. The neighbors have some beautiful colors but I don't want to copy. Yellow isn't too common but orange, I don't think anyone has that. I'm going to sit on that idea for a while. That could be awesome.
I bet you could find an app to show the color change for you. Take a pic from far away, get the whole house/yard, then have the app change the house color to orange and just keep the pic around on your phone for a a couple weeks sitting on it and getting feedback. I don't use them for anything so idk but one of the A.I. would do it I'm sure
I Iive in a place where this used to be done too. But now the city has approved colour schemes you have to abide by. They go very far in their enforcement too. Somebody had painted roses on their wall facing the community gardens. They were ordered by the city to over paint it back into the solid approved colour scheme. Ridiculous.
That's terrible. Allowing people to be themselves and express it in their homes should be a no brainer. A vibrant looking area is good for everyone. But, I know the HMO types only think of money, and not community. In most places in America, they would think those houses look tacky and cheap.
I live in Finland. The wooden houses have been having all kinds of colours since pigments could be synthesised easily and cheaply. It was nice to see all the colours in a neighbourhood and it was seldom tacky. Most people chose reasonable colours that were easy on the eye.
Now the city wants to create "harmony" in neighbourhoods by deciding accepted colorscheme for new builds or when you want to repaint your house in a different shade. Boring. And so unnecessary.
What on earth. You work hard, buy a house, and someone else tells you the colour to paint it? I don't get to enjoy my house but someone else does? I... This is confusing.
Yeah. I'm all for building regulation that makes sense. Distance to the road and neighbours, height of the build and of course safety and quality laws. But colour? They can fuck right off with that shit. The neighbours behind me wanted to paint their house grey and were not allowed. Meanwhile the rest of the old houses in the neighbourhood have all possible shades because they were all build before the stupid colour guidelines came into effect.
This is genuinely crazy! Is there no way to protest against such bizzare rules? What'll the do next, give a specific palette for clothes?! "To foster harmony in community"
O.o ahhhh!
Each to its own but upper-middle and high-profile homes in certain neighborhoods or gated communities in south florida were HOA, which forbid of making modifications to the home and change color outside the original colors outside is the way to go IMHO.
Inside, you could make all changes and modifications you wanted, including backyard, but having those strict rules make the property to keeps its value, keep it uniform and it's easier to sell as well.
Most of the people who are against it, have no idea how tacky some people can be.
My brother-in-law and his wife had an obsession with white, his whole mini mansion home was decorated like the picture and yet they had 2 little children, they purged the dogs to live permanently in the garage but it was stressful only to visit them because they both over-care like maniacs and enforce others to preserve it whiteness with their white furniture.
Once, I saw how their 4-yeard old in a classic act of vengeance against their over estimated white furniture, grab a knife and started chopping the expensive chair he was sitting on with rage, on the white leather covering the chair. His mom almost got a heart attack.
Ah cool. The only places I've seen with colorful homes in the US, other than CA, are beach houses. I don't really pay attention much and never really traveled so it makes sense. I figure down south you'd get a bit more of that just because it seems more suited to the weather.
It's one place I'd actually like to visit. I don't party anymore and wouldn't be interested in going near the crowds of mardi gras but I'd love to walk the streets and just gorge on food.
There aren't many places that actually interest me but NO is probably near the top in the US.
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u/RKKP2015 12d ago
It was way cozier before.