In alt.home.repair on 29 Jul 2005 13:48:34 -0700 Banty posted:
True. which might make this whole subthread moot -- I don't remember. It might make this post moot too. :)
Neither do I but maybe for a different reason from yours. AFAIK, the only way they could have built homes cheap enough that most of those people could have bought one was by making them the same. It may take a while to build the first house, and the second, but I bet it took much less to build the ones that followed. (the particular issue here, I don't know about, if they were the same color or not. I don't think changing colors would be bad with free-standing houses, and it wouldn't slow them down or wasted money much either, I think, except for those partly used cans of paint at the very end. :) )
When I lived in Brooklyn, I made a point to go see Levittown, Long Island, just because of its fame. I went in 1980 or so.
I too noted that almost all had additions and bushes, and trees iirc. I sort of wondered how the 5% of people with no changes 30 years later felt. :)
The proof is in the pudding. I think if you would see this row, you too would think it was bad. Maybe if I had a digital camera, I would post pictures.
It's not about the individuality of the owner**. It's about 2 or 3 adjacent and proximate colors clashing. I think everyone agrees that's possible. **In fact, it was their attempts to use the same color, but not finding it, that caused this problem. Originally, we all knew what company, Duron, sold the paint that matched, and what the two colors were called. But I think no one told these people**, and they did the best they could to match, and didn't. The brown has become unavailable twice iirc in the past 26 years, but there is a substitute name that seems to be the same color or at least doesn't clash. But brown is used a lot of places so there are always a lot of browns. This one, when they don't make it, they don't make anything close enough. That won't stop a clerk from suggesting something, though. He doesn't know there is another house a half inch away.
**I think no one told them they would get 10?% off if they said they lived in this n'hood either. Easy enough to arrange, but most homeowners wouldn't think of it if not told.One house is sort of carrot yellow, a combination of light carrot and the original color it seems, and another particularly clashing one I can't remember. Each color would probably look ok if they were farther from the others.
Arent' those free standing houses? Anyhow, they're not like my top row (which fortunately I don't have to drive by to get in and out. :) )
Meirman
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