Pettiness over red house

[nzoomed]

There have always been occasional black houses. Black can be a "bright" black, but everything today is muted and dull/grey tones. . Sometimes it's quite subtle. A colour that looks "light" can still be far from "bright" and some of the furnishing colours are quite hard to match without staying in the dull tones. DH calls them suicide colours and won't use them.

I hope the red house doesn't fade too much too soon, or at least that it fades to a nice colour. Time will tell.

Ive seen a fair bit of black and/or dark grey homes around in recent, it seems to be a more popular colour.
One of our neighbours painted their nice 1960s brick home a dark grey and it looks horrible, then they go and put it on the market, I think they would have got more money if they left the original bricks, but seems the in thing to do is to paint these older homes in these "trendy" colours.