I was just thinking about this yesterday as I had a drive round the dull streets. Unfortunately, grey seems to be the colour of choice at the moment.
And cars, everything’s black or grey these days
Ah yes. So much fun from being ‘forced’ to do so.
Anyone painting theirs pink with yellow spots will be first up against the wall come the revolution I can tell you.
Ever seen that BBC schools episode “Terraces”?
You’d love how some of the older parts (Nyhavn in particular) of Copenhagen looks if this pleases your eye 😀
Nah, I’d have the Balamory song permanently going round in my head like it does every time I see a row of colourful houses
Does anyone remember the red and white candy striped house in a posh street in London?
A couple of years ago, a millionaire had a fight because of some construction works and painted her house red and white. I watched a short documentary and I absolutely loved it. Can’t find it. Help please?
Is this bristol? I remember when the painted houses first started in Montpelier in the 70s then spread out from there.
I agree, our architecture is getting bland and needs tarting up.
But “forced?” 🤣
This was the first thing I noticed when I went to visit my wife’s hometown in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Makes the place look so much nicer.
Forced into brightly-coloured whimsy, like a North Korean *Balamory*.
Civil liberties
It looks nice when there’s a row of them. There’s one house on my street that got painted bright blue. It looks pretty bad.
PLEASE. This country is so dull we need more colour 😭
It would be ‘fun’ like a mandatory Christmas party at work
😒
OP hasn’t visited “Tin Town” in Luton.
In Bratislava they have huge blocks of flats painted in bright colours. Under communism they were dull grey, bare concrete. So the colours are a nice symbol of their freedom.
The front of mine was deep maroon when I moved in. When it was due a refresh, it became a mustard yellow. That was a while back, so it’ll get swapped again this year or next – I’m thinking possibly either deep sky blue, or robin’s egg.
I can’t even afford a loaf of bread mate let alone being made to paint my house 😂
My ex gf lived in a street were they legally weren’t allowed to paint the houses, not even a neutral colour, they were just left the grey concrete type finish, couldn’t understand it, anyone actually know why that might of been?
Let’s move to Balamory!
Forced fun?
Are you a middle manager somewhere?
End sad beige
It wouldn’t be very interesting then
Brighton is great for this. There’s loads of murals and stuff too. Also shit tags but that’s everywhere.
They do this in my town, but reality is it’s grim round here and the gutters are still all full of rubbish and everything has a century of dirt all over it. So it just clashes with the actual reality, and for me personally actually makes it more depressing in a strange way.
Yummy Mummy’s “I want a sad beige house for a sad beige family”
Let’s start with painting just the doors, as optional, and see how that pans out first.
I do worry what some of you would do if you ever were in power.
I agree that colourful is nice, thanks for volunteering to pay for mine OP.
Makes the entire country look like a seaside town
You advocate for compulsory fun and joy?
More seriously, most of those colours very quickly, if not instantly, look quite tatty or tacky in our northern light. These are colours for closer to the equator where the light is less filtered by the atmosphere.
Balamory lookin asses
I always thought this when watching Ballamory.
Talked to a builder once about this and he explained that buildings need to breathe so painting them was a terrible idea
No
Okay I want black though
But then how would you know when you were by the seaside?
What’s the story in Balamory?
I agree. Being forced to do something is always the prerequisite of fun and joy.
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Mine will be lime green
I was just thinking about this yesterday as I had a drive round the dull streets. Unfortunately, grey seems to be the colour of choice at the moment.
And cars, everything’s black or grey these days
Ah yes. So much fun from being ‘forced’ to do so.
Anyone painting theirs pink with yellow spots will be first up against the wall come the revolution I can tell you.
Ever seen that BBC schools episode “Terraces”?
You’d love how some of the older parts (Nyhavn in particular) of Copenhagen looks if this pleases your eye 😀
Nah, I’d have the Balamory song permanently going round in my head like it does every time I see a row of colourful houses
Does anyone remember the red and white candy striped house in a posh street in London?
A couple of years ago, a millionaire had a fight because of some construction works and painted her house red and white. I watched a short documentary and I absolutely loved it. Can’t find it. Help please?
Edit: found similar documentary.
https://youtu.be/SJx-L7nc7Zs?si=4xkLn92uExRIVTdD
Is this bristol? I remember when the painted houses first started in Montpelier in the 70s then spread out from there.
I agree, our architecture is getting bland and needs tarting up.
But “forced?” 🤣
This was the first thing I noticed when I went to visit my wife’s hometown in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Makes the place look so much nicer.
Forced into brightly-coloured whimsy, like a North Korean *Balamory*.
Civil liberties
It looks nice when there’s a row of them. There’s one house on my street that got painted bright blue. It looks pretty bad.
PLEASE. This country is so dull we need more colour 😭
It would be ‘fun’ like a mandatory Christmas party at work
😒
OP hasn’t visited “Tin Town” in Luton.
In Bratislava they have huge blocks of flats painted in bright colours. Under communism they were dull grey, bare concrete. So the colours are a nice symbol of their freedom.
The front of mine was deep maroon when I moved in. When it was due a refresh, it became a mustard yellow. That was a while back, so it’ll get swapped again this year or next – I’m thinking possibly either deep sky blue, or robin’s egg.
I can’t even afford a loaf of bread mate let alone being made to paint my house 😂
My ex gf lived in a street were they legally weren’t allowed to paint the houses, not even a neutral colour, they were just left the grey concrete type finish, couldn’t understand it, anyone actually know why that might of been?
Let’s move to Balamory!
Forced fun?
Are you a middle manager somewhere?
End sad beige
It wouldn’t be very interesting then
Brighton is great for this. There’s loads of murals and stuff too. Also shit tags but that’s everywhere.
They do this in my town, but reality is it’s grim round here and the gutters are still all full of rubbish and everything has a century of dirt all over it. So it just clashes with the actual reality, and for me personally actually makes it more depressing in a strange way.
Yummy Mummy’s “I want a sad beige house for a sad beige family”
Let’s start with painting just the doors, as optional, and see how that pans out first.
I do worry what some of you would do if you ever were in power.
I agree that colourful is nice, thanks for volunteering to pay for mine OP.
Makes the entire country look like a seaside town
You advocate for compulsory fun and joy?
More seriously, most of those colours very quickly, if not instantly, look quite tatty or tacky in our northern light. These are colours for closer to the equator where the light is less filtered by the atmosphere.
Balamory lookin asses
I always thought this when watching Ballamory.
Talked to a builder once about this and he explained that buildings need to breathe so painting them was a terrible idea
No
Okay I want black though
But then how would you know when you were by the seaside?
What’s the story in Balamory?
I agree. Being forced to do something is always the prerequisite of fun and joy.