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There is a lot of fancy theorising, but its basically down to one thing: fashion. In architecture, for the last 10 years, there has been a move to adding BLACK
by KaiserPro 4y ago
There is a lot of fancy theorising, but its basically down to one thing: fashion.
In architecture, for the last 10 years, there has been a move to adding BLACK (not just dark, but #000) to buildings. Be that through carbonised wood, paint or metal cladding.
However, black, outside of a few applications, is a stupid colour for modern buildings. It gets hot, it collects dust, and degrades pretty quickly (unless its carbonised wood)
Then in LA about 5 years ago, people started dicking about with grey. Having got bored with the Italianate white/blue combo (or perhaps Jardin Majorelle blue) There is also a natural reaction to do something new, which means rejecting what cam immediately before.
this has gradually translated into grey shit for houses. Here in the UK, people are getting grey window frames, and sometimes painting the house grey. it should really be banned as it makes the house indistinguishable from the sky, which is a traffic hazard.
Personally when I got my house painted, I wanted a huge fucking rainbow down the side. But the wife overruled me. She wanted grey, I said no, so we agreed on titanium white, which has a pleasing algal green to it now in places.
- Etheryte 4y ago> painting the house grey [...] should really be banned as it makes the house indistinguishable from the sky I was very confused until I reread the comment and realized you were in the UK.
- bambataa 4y agoThe whole grey windows thing is so odd. I can see the argument that white uPVC can actually look out of place, but the grey makes no sense and will look dated very soon imo. We were house hunting in 2020 and saw so many houses with it.
- hef19898 4y agoWe opted for gray PVC windows. They matched the style of the house, pseudo wood PVC looks ugly and real wood, the preferred solution, was unaffordable. That was 9 years ago. It all depends on the house so, on other houses wood / wood like looks way better and gray would just be ugly.
- matkoniecz 4y ago> it should really be banned as it makes the house indistinguishable from the sky, which is a traffic hazard. Is there a joke here that I am missing? If not: how it is traffic hazard?
- KaiserPro 4y agoBecause the stereo type of the UK is that the sky is grey and rainy, thus a grey house with grey windows and grey furnishings would be invisible.
- 323 4y agoIs it possible for project approval time to be related to color? I would imagine a lot more would file comments against building a yellow house versus a bland gray one. > Lilac house in Watford conservation area rejected by council https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58730417 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5873041... > Court rules woman can keep her red and white striped townhouse https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/24/red-white-striped-house-zipporah-lisle-mainwaring https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/24/red-white-st...
- KaiserPro 4y agoIndeed for a conservation area (the first one) or a conservation area with exceptionally rich people living near buy (the second one, people often having millions in disposable income) it can be challenging to paint your house something unorthodox. but that is only a tiny part of the country. It is pretty rare in a normal area to have to ask for permission to change house colour. The concept of a HoA doesn't really apply here in the UK (there are some special cases for ex-council houses, or leasehold properties)