Painting the family house
>As to house colors, how come we have to be all drab and people in
>places like Nepal can paint things bright colors and it looks good?
They do that in other places, too.
>I've been wondering if it'd be possible to create the worn, layered
>paint look on some interior woodwork. Here we favor plain cedar
>shingles.
One of my early childhood psychic traumas was when my parents asked
me what color we should paint the new house they were having built,
and I said "Red". They told me that wasn't acceptable, so I asked for
at least a red stripe, and showed them how it should be ... a swath
about three feet wide, spiraling from the ground up, around the
house, to the roof. They agreed.
It was a huge disappointment when the house was painted plain white,
with no candy stripe.
I'm grown up now, live in a white house and by golly I can do it ...
but somehow it has lost its appeal.
Doug