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Does your house need a face lift? Here's some idea's for you.... (Original Post) Little Star Apr 2013 OP
I'd kill myself if I had to live in that first one. hobbit709 Apr 2013 #1
I actually thought the one with the advertising was a pretty neat idea. Little Star Apr 2013 #3
Our house is painted turquoise with white trim. hobbit709 Apr 2013 #4
I wanna see the purple shed! I bet it's cool. Little Star Apr 2013 #6
Here you go hobbit709 Apr 2013 #9
omg, it's beautiful.... Little Star Apr 2013 #10
I'm going to continue my landscaping projects starting next week. In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #2
Don't forget to show us pictures of the Koi Pond when it's all pretty.... Little Star Apr 2013 #5
I had one at my old place. In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #7
I'm in MA it gets cold and I'm also a widowed old handicapped woman.... Little Star Apr 2013 #8
When I was a kid, one of the neighbor couples got into a huge fight over painting the house. baldguy Apr 2013 #11
omg, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard!..... Little Star Apr 2013 #13
Now that sounds like a story. Baitball Blogger Apr 2013 #21
I lived in a pink house... Phentex Apr 2013 #12
Good thinking. But I do think Miami has some pretty color houses.... Little Star Apr 2013 #14
These houses were in NC and Georgia, lol... Phentex Apr 2013 #17
lol. I learn something new every day on DU. Little Star Apr 2013 #26
Actually, I could live in the polka-dot one. Rather cheery. BlueJazz Apr 2013 #15
I liked that one too! It was done very artistically. Little Star Apr 2013 #16
This one would be nice... one_voice Apr 2013 #18
I'd take it! Little Star Apr 2013 #23
My 6 year old daughter wants us to move to the Hello Kitty house Paulie Apr 2013 #19
And who can blame her it's adorable! Little Star Apr 2013 #24
The third home is part of Heidelberg Project in Detroit, MI Earth_First Apr 2013 #20
New Orleans is always good for colorful houses. bluedigger Apr 2013 #22
Pretty. I hope to get there some day & see for myself. Little Star Apr 2013 #25

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. I'd kill myself if I had to live in that first one.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 06:04 PM
Apr 2013

i like the blue but it needs a different color on the trim.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
4. Our house is painted turquoise with white trim.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 06:12 PM
Apr 2013

When Donna bought it in 1990 it was painted O.D. Green. I said I wore that color for 3 1/2 years and there's no way I'm living in it. I wanted to paint it purple but she wouldn't let me. The shed I built out back 10 years ago IS purple.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
2. I'm going to continue my landscaping projects starting next week.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 06:06 PM
Apr 2013

My neighbors would freak over a weird paint job.

My new Koi Pond is half way dug. I have all of the materials.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
11. When I was a kid, one of the neighbor couples got into a huge fight over painting the house.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 08:35 PM
Apr 2013

It got so loud & so bad that the wife stormed out and left (presumably to her mother's house - this was the early '70s). The husband proceeded to paint the house black - the sides, the trim, the gutters, the front door. Then when he was done doing that he painted the windows (including the glass), the fence in the front yard, then the shingles on the roof. Then he left too. A couple weeks later there was a For Sale sign in front. Never saw either of them again.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
13. omg, that is one of the funniest things I've ever heard!.....
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 08:48 PM
Apr 2013

My sister got mad at a boyfriend once. She had made him his favorite duck dinner but he chose to stay at the bar and get blasted instead. Well, once he got home & passed out she took the cooked ducks outside and smeared them all over his truck and I mean everywhere inside & out. Duck grease everywhere. Then she skewered both ducks on his antenna.

Getting up to go to work the next morning he had quite the surprise.

Phentex

(16,330 posts)
12. I lived in a pink house...
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 08:39 PM
Apr 2013

pink Miami brick. We were known as the people in the pink house (although it was a softer pink, lol). I was a kid and couldn't change it.

When my husband and I moved into the house we're in now, it was bright yellow. UGLY bright yellow. Neighbors talked about the people in the yellow house.

It was changed to gray - and still is!!! I cannot torture my kids.

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
14. Good thinking. But I do think Miami has some pretty color houses....
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 08:51 PM
Apr 2013

it gives a nice vibe.

Here in New England we usually keep things a little more bland, lol.

Phentex

(16,330 posts)
17. These houses were in NC and Georgia, lol...
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 09:07 PM
Apr 2013

Miami brick is just a style of brick that's thinner and longer than regular brick.

This was the early 70s after all. Shag carpets, the whole nine yards.

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