Texas couple paint their house bright shade of teal only to receive DEATH THREATS from neighbors who
Source: DailyMail
Texas couple paint their house bright shade of teal only to receive DEATH THREATS from neighbors who call them 'white trash' and refer to their home as the 'Smurf house'
By Ollie Gillman For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:32 EST, 23 October 2015 | Updated: 00:23 EST, 24 October 2015
A couple who painted their house bright blue say they have received death threats after a picture of their home was posted online.
Keely Dubrova and her husband Peter said their local homeowner's association approved their request to turn their property a shade of teal.
But, after numerous complaints and abuse online, the Texas couple have now been told their 'Smurf house' must be re-painted.
The Dubrovas, who live near Lake Houston, said they wrote off to Atascocita Community Improvement Association and were told they had permission to paint their Victorian-style house blue.
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Maybe it is a good thing I am broke... I could get in a lot of trouble if I had enough money!
Teal gets its name from the colored area around the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family.
The first written use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.
says the Wiki
I've never heard of that. I thought they were only for condos and townhouses. 
I would have been mad that I lived next door to a prettier house than mine. 
As for the neighbors, they can go and bug off.
i would have not used the word "bug"
in any case i just can't imagine getting worked up over it, very strange indeedIt had been that color ( dirty faded, at that) for years, my poor next door neighbor had to see it every morning from her kitchen and her deck.
She told me, she had been out of town for a week and when she came back, the deed had been done.
Apparently the then new owners came from Fla. where everything is pink and green and etc and decided to bring the color with them.
Complete with green shutters.
I asked her what color it was before, she said light grey, like hers.
So that is the color we painted it, a year later.
There is, as far as I am concerned, only one serious flaw with dogs. They don't live long enough. What I would give to see my Great Pyrenees Abigail and Belle alive and healthy -- two big beautiful dogs who helped me deal with my combat-related PTSD by loving me.
Here's my latest Great Pyrenees, Constanze, as a puppy. She is bigger, but just as cute.
Yikes.
Well, I live in California and I think it's a beautiful color for that house. They would love my house in Texas. It's chartreuse! 
There are two houses about half a mile from me (I live in Houston) that are painted fun colors. One is mint-green, which is a bit tame compared to the one that gets the most attention: Orange with purple trim/shutters. I love 'em both!
Orange and Purple (Streetview)
Mint Green (Streetview)
And if those two are able to get away with fun colors, there may be more in that area. Plus, we've got some art-houses here, like the Beer Can House and The Flower Man's House (although the latter had to be torn down due to mold and non-reparable decay.)
Lake Houston is the "exurbs", so think "conservative" overall.
as I suspect there are everywhere. When I was looking up other sources of colorful houses here, I came across a comment someone made about driving to Galveston and noting all of the differently-colored houses down there. That's usually the ones on stilts, though there are some brightly-painted houses further into Galveston. Lots of bungalows and Victorian houses down there, though there are many of those styles in Houston, too.
Here are some in the Heights area (plus a little something of artistic merit leading in The Armadillo House used to be there, but I don't know to where it's been moved.)
Art Car Museum
Red house
Green house
Olive-green and yellow (I have seen this color combination used several times so far, and just on one street!)
Mint-green house, beige house, pink house
Mint-green house, dark-red house
Blue & yellow house, yellow house, mint-green house
Mural on same street
And there's more than I can spend the time waiting for streetview images to load Take a look at random and you'll find more. Heights Blvd. has quite a few of the historically-marked Victorian houses on it, though I don't recall just how colorful they are. Not the kind of bright colors I originally posted, but still better than the duller colors we all see far too often on dwellings.
As in cool-color
The people in The Heights have done a good job fixing up those old houses, even the "shotgun shacks" and painting them nice colors for the most part. I'd like to see more of them go on down to Galveston and fix up the homes that were damaged by Ike. Far too many are in sad states because of it.
There are a lot of great, historical homes all across this area (and this state.) Some people simply have no idea about that, or what it's like to live in one.
A few years ago, I painted the house siding (Compressed asbestos) a sky blue and the brick wainscoting a much darker blue. Mine was more of a pure blue than this house. Mine's a much smaller house than that. Mine is a Gothic bungalow. We took down ugly aluminum awnings my grandparents had put up (good for slicing the top of your head if you weren't careful) and we put up egg and dart painted crown moldings over the windows. We tried to change it from "1970s era nursing home" to "1880s Gothic bungalow" character.
The gossip down at the hardware store was "Buncha Messcans musta moved in thar" because we all know that boring white people would never dare paint their house a non-neutral color and have the neighbors disapprove of them for being different. Being different is bad around here.
I've heard of people in rich neighborhoods freaking out over weird colors in neighborhoods without a HOA. In Houston I had a next door neighbor constantly calling the City of Houston to come out and hassle me. We didn't have an HOA but she wished we did. I guess we weren't respectable enough. We didn't have shiny new SUVs to drive. We had old cars.
The complaints the city employee told me about? "You have sticks in your yard." "You have poison ivy on your back fence." First of all I had huge oak trees which would be a good reason to have sticks in my yard. Secondly, why is snoopy neighbor worried about my back fence when she lives on a lot on the SIDE of my lot? How would she know about what's on my back fence? I asked the city employee if he knew what poison ivy looked like. He said no. I said I didn't either. Strangely enough, that alleged poison ivy sprouted honeysuckle blossoms in the summertime.
The people in the article live in far North suburbia of Houston which is quite conservative. I live in a little town in TX that doesn't have to worry about a HOA telling me what color to paint my house. I have the only non-neutral color painted house in town. However, the locals tend to strew a lot of trash on my right of way, which is not my responsibility to maintain. The Texas Highway Department is supposed to maintain it and they never mow it or do anything to it, and it's hilly and quite difficult to mow in places. Plastic shopping bags, glass beer bottles, beer cans, chip bags. The latest thing hubby found right by the driveway was a used plastic douche bottle crumpled up with nozzle still attached.
Once my husband was standing out in the driveway and somebody pulled up right in front of him in a pickup and poured a coke out of a cup on the ground. We even get trash imported from the nearest McDonald's. That's twenty miles away in the next county. They buy it in the next county, eat it, and then toss the bag out twenty miles later on my right of way. They can't find a trash can at a gas station and use it.
That tells me that the rest of the town probably hates us for fixing up our house to look nice, do some landscaping and mowing to make it look like the plants are somewhat intentional. We are not anywhere near the "this looks like a golf course" stage.
As my dad said when some guy down the street put in an in-ground swimming pool in our crummy post-war suburbia subdivision, "There goes the neighborhood."
mostly, though not exclusively, they are nonwhite. That is no doubt what has these poor snowflakes (double entendre there) so upset.
Those are all Russian (traditional Siberian decor) -- perhaps appropriate for a couple named Dubrova, nyet ?
The brick really needs painting. Even the beige color of it just does not go with the turquoise. It "muddies" it way too much. At least if they painted the brick, you could be easier fooled into thinking it was a Victorian.
But this is a real Victorian. In Texas (Houston) 
And in Galveston:
Reading the comments on any political article makes me want to puke.
Just kidding 
I have lived in the same place for 29 years and of what was once outskirts of the metropolis but as of late has just built around our area. Two acres between any neighbors has always seemed weird after living in suburbia for 25 years before.
My house is white canvas with two good coats of acrylic primer waiting for the color. So this story is so cool to me, it gives me lots of ideas on how to go 
