Would you paint your house with glaring and bold colors ?

This came in timely with our neighbour deciding to paint his house a flourescent greenish hue! Yesterday, as I was washing my hand and wondering at his choice, I ended up washing my hands more. Good for me! I agree it comes down to personal choices and we humans have this varied taste nodules that make them distinctive. I do not have any problem with that except for the fact that the inmates might suffer health hazards in tropical summer. The amount of heat that purple would absorb is way above some lighter colors would! And the more electricity consumption, more wastage of power to cool down the heating affect. This, I would totally blame on the lack of consciousness of the people. If you ask me, inspite of the go green thing, I love lighter shades. More light, more good it is. White would be the best, anytime. But since it gets difficult to maintain I can settle for light lemon or lighter olive shades.

Let me confess I too dislike gaudy and bold colours on the out walls of a house. The house feels repulsive to me, if I happen to see any such house. I also wonder how come those house owners dare to go for bright shining dark colours. Dark purple or red colour in fact observe the heat and does not do any good to the house, in terms of temperature control and they look like an eye-sore. I would never like to paint my own house in dark colours. I even do not like dark colours being used in my rooms. I prefer light and soothing colour for my house.

in the area where i live, all the external paint of the houses are similar... we are not allowed to change it by the council and body corporate to preserve the market value of the houses in the area... just imagine if we buy a house in the area where every house have a different color of paint... i wouldn't want to buy it as i know that it will be very hard for me to sell it in the future... take care and have a nice day...

I wouldn't be adverse to painting a house in bright colours, but it would mainly come down to my surrounding area and neighbours most of all. I'm all for individuality, but there's definitely a fine line between chic and garish at times. lol. The style of the house structure can play a major part too. In my home state, there are many timber built houses with sweeping verandah's etc. This building style looks great in lemons, purples and other bright colours. But a standard brick and tile home may not be anywhere near as suitable for the same! Personally I would far prefer to be creative with paint INSIDE the house rather than outside it. I'll differentiate the outside with my garden instead! And colours I like? I'm open to most things really, as long as it's not too bright like a fluorescent tone or something! lol.

I think the first thing to consider is MY personal taste and not my neighbors' taste. Thank God, I'm not a big neon fan! I do want a yellow house or a lime green house all because it makes my house unique and its easier to find. Say, I have relatives coming from abroad or the south, they can just tell the name of the subdivision and ask where the lime green or yellow house is.hehehe

My house is painted a light shade of lemon yellow and it happens to be one of my favourite colours for the house. I would not like my house to be painted in any dark colour. Everyone's choice is different and luckily everyone at my home likes the light colours only.

Hi Alok!I will never do that simply because I do not want to hate my own house.

Personally I wanted to paint our house we live in now a shade of Bluish purple, and my husband is against it. He is thinking that it would make it stand out too much and personally he is not for that. There is no way I could do mine Orange, Green, Pink, Bright Yellow or a noticeable purple unless my neighbors did not mind me painting it that color. As I hate any shade of Green for a house that is definately out for sure. Right now we cannot afford to consider painting the outside of our house, but in time I still would like a Bluish purple for sure.

Let me confess I too dislike gaudy and bold colours on the out walls of a house. The house feels repulsive to me, if I happen to see any such house. I also wonder how come those house owners dare to go for bright shining dark colours. Dark purple or red colour in fact observe the heat and does not do any good to the house, in terms of temperature control and they look like an eye-sore. I would never like to paint my own house in dark colours. I even do not like dark colours being used in my rooms. I prefer light and soothing colour for my house.

It is down to personal taste. I wouldn't paint my home in gaudy colours just for the sake of it. I think I'd have to consider what the neighbours would think, because it's not really fair to paint something they'll hate as they'll have to look at it too. I know someone who deliberately painted their wheelie bin in purple with orange spots because she hated her neighbours and wanted to irritate them. Rather petty in my opinion!

I personally hate painting the house with dark colours. My favourite is a light shade of lemon yellow or else a shade of pista. I avoid white paint too especially when we live in a very polluted city.

I have seen a house that is all purple. It does get your attention though. I don't know if I would have the house painted in bold and bright colors. Like what they said, it all comes down to personal taste and individuality. Just as long as I don't get to see it every day, I am fine with what other people decide to do with their own homes.

The first time we painted our own apartment, that was several decades ago, we paint our sitting room wall as bright yellow, a bit italian touch. My relatives and friends felt shocked when seeing the color, but i enjoy the masterpiece very much. Since then we have moved several times, never that color any more, but pale green, light yellow, or just cream white. I guess the choice of color preference has a lot to do with the inner feeling, your self esteem, your choice of life style, etc.

For my next house I'm going to paint it a mellow yellow with big black circles, so it looks just like a block of Swiss Cheese.