Pettiness over red house

[Lilith7]

There's a neat weatherboard house in Wanganui... every second board is a light purple, and the ones between are white. And there's another there that is bright yellow.

The only real downside with the red is it will fade out quicker than some colors. The town I stay in when in Canada is big on apple orchards, so the townsfolk tried to get the water tower painted red. The council refused based on the fast fade.

I love the sound of those two colours together on a house. 


I have a loathing of grey thanks to a truly hideous school uniform, & its so fashionable these days that it seems to be everywhere. And those that aren't dreary grey are inevitably beige.
More colour would I'm sure, lift people's spirits - it always cheers me up to see a non grey or beige house but they're few & far between.

 Perhaps each city should encourage the use of more colour for houses; the most colourful suburb could win some kind of prize.

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The neighbor must think she is an entitled Karen trying to tell the owner what colour to paint the house.

It's a Mount Maunganui thing. From my experience living in the Tauranga area some years back 'the Mount' postcode includes an unhealthy dose of entitledness.

There used to be a children's book my kids had, The big orange splot. I just looked it up & apparently its now used to teach kids philosophy



https://www.prindleinstitute.org/books/t...nge-splot/



"Summary
 
This is the story of a man in conformist suburbia who learns to embrace his own individuality.
Mr. Plumbean lives on a street where all the houses look the same, and everyone likes it that way. Everything changes when a seagull splashes orange paint on Mr. Plumbean’s house. He decides to paint his house to reflect his colorful dreams. Although the neighbors are upset at first, one by one they talk to Mr. Plumbean. He convinces them to use their imaginations to transform their own houses to reflect their dreams."