On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:08:43 -0800, "Roger Shoaf"
wrote:

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| "John Harlow" wrote in message
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| - - Scrape/Paint the house bright yellow (currently gray)
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| One of my neighbors has a bright yellow house. It
| doesn't look so good. (And I'm glad it's not in my
| line of sight!)
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| No kidding. That alone might DEvalue the home for the amount of the rest
| of
| the improvements.
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| Yellow. Yech.
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| I would rather see a yellow house than another earth-tone. I have seen
| endless tracts of houses built with nothing but various shades of beige, tan
| and brown. That is boring.
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|

The thing about yellow houses is that there are some yellows that look
fine on some houses, but a slightly different shade or even slightly
different color saturation can look god-awful. We have brown and
yellow Craftsman-style houses in our neighborhood, and they look very
nice. But there is a primo example of Craftsman style (it was actually
written up and photographed in a renovator's magazine once) that the
new owner painted bright yellow and it looks dreadful. So close ...
yet so far! It looks exactly like someone got the wrong paint by
mistake.

Be careful. I'd suggest looking for another yellow house you like and
being damned careful you get that exact shade of yellow. Knock on the
door and ask.

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| Roger Shoaf
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| About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
| they come up with this striped stuff.
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