Did you know that hardware stores often sell mis-mixed cans of housepaint for, like, 90% off? You can only get a few gallons of any one color, as each one is unique, but if you’re doing a small project it can be a great way to save money.
Huh. No idea why I thought of that.
Loveliest comment, by Luka: When you showed me color samples and I said OK I ment the first one, not all of them…
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When you showed me color samples and I said OK I ment the first one, not all of them…
Well, the exterior of the house speaks volumes. I guess the owner really wanted to show their colours.
This looks like a lot of houses do in Charleston, SC. Bright colors are supposed to ward off evil spirits, according to local customs. I think they are cool looking – not that I would buy it and keep it this way! Well, unless the whole neighborhood was like this and then, why the hell not?
I kind of want that house. It would be like living in a Lego house.
LOL That’s exactly what I was thinking–I love it!
One full-size Lego House with utilities for sale:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html
Me too. i think it’s a whole lot of awesome!
“Emma, I can’t find the house again!”
“You just drove by it, Hubert! Twice!”
“I can’t help it, it just blends in with the rest of the neighborhood. That’s it.. tomorrow, I’m painting the dang thing! Yeah.. it won’t blend in ever again!”
I want it. But I think it needs fine tuning. The garage doors are unnecessarily dull. I think Crayola green would add that certain je ne sais quois but I don’t know what it is.
I agree. I love the colors. But should the pedestrian gate be the same color as the garage doors or another?
That’s a huge garage by SF standards and actually usable for storing your car in. That alone will have added 100K to the price.
“that certain je ne sais quois but I don’t know what it is”
LOL. Nice one.
I like it.
You said that in jest I’m sure, but I’ve painted my entire house with “oops” paint (interior, deck furniture, porch & fence). I’ve found colors I like and redone a whole room around the color. Every time I go in a hardware store I check out the oops paint! Mmmmmm, paint……
Jeez, it’s like Crayola threw up!
Snort. That comment is made of win.
Ewww–”great” view of the factories, construction and smog. And I wonder what an “extra wide” lot is? Does that mean that they have a few feet of grass?
I like the colors, but couldn’t live that way. I like my country 6 acres and Colorado mountain view. >shudder<
It’s in San Francisco. Many lots (like, to pick one entirely at random, the one I’m in right now) are 25 ft. wide. And in general there’s no smog — the prevailing west wind blows it to Oakland, haha.
I know.. I’m just a mountain girl at heart. It’s just hard for me to understand 25 ft. wide lots. =D
I believe the technical term in the property market is a “shotgun house” or “shotgun shack”. All the rooms are line up in a straight line so that bullet could travel in a straight line and still go through all the rooms.
You know that guy… the guy who sewed together all kinds of dead body parts then put a brain in the resulting body? He shocked it with lightning and it came to life, only to terrorize the villagers. You remember that guy? Well he’s an architect now…
Or a housepainter.
$875,000. For a little 1906 (=small rooms and retrofitted closets) box with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths (and an attached “legal” 2 bedroom apartment, whatever that means).
If that house was in Fort Worth, looking the way it does, they’d be lucky to get $100,000. On the other hand, it wouldn’t have views of any mountains or bays, just the neighbors’ tree-tops and maybe a grain elevator or rail yard.
Did you notice the solar panel on top?
I bet you’re right, and that would explain the mishmash of what really seems to be collected “Oops” paint. It’s Green to re-purpose after all.
If that house was in Fort Worth, there would be tiny crosses burning on the tiny lawn.
According to the gossip here http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/01/536_laidley_just_in_case_you_cant_spot_the_short_sale_i.html#comments
‘legal 2 bedroom apartment’ means the building at the back of the property is two apartments, one legally eligible to be rented, one not, both in the possession of a tenant on a long lease.
Should it be considered particularly telling that there are no pictures of the interior?
That’s likely where they really went nuts.
HMM yes I would like to see that. Can’t see in the windows. Plain white curtain liners for what looks like standard-issue drapes. Those have to go, of course. A truly high-class house would have no curtains because the residents don’t care what the neighbors see. (I am not that high-class, personally.)
Let me guess – Every door is a different color and has a smiley face painted on it. Every room has it’s own time-of-day theme, either dawn, daytime dusk or night-time. Accordingly, ceilings are painted with rainbows, clouds, stars, sun, moon or planets, while the walls are painted with panoramic scenes of farm country and mountains. The carpets will be color coordinated to match the ceiling, with cloud and galaxy patterns. Every step of the staircase will have a different color and have a number painted on it , to help the kids learn to read and count. All doors will have chime bells on them, so that everyone knows where everyone else is. Cupboards and storage units will have the six W’s to further help their kids with English.
nah: I’ll bet the interior is 100% eggshell white! The only color inside here is in the soft pastel watercolor paintings of basic sunsets and such.
I’m thinking they were REALLY mad at the neighbors. “We’ll show you!”
I lived in SF for years. Wacky is very typical. Not all “painted ladies” end up color coordinated. It is also considered very large and anything under a million is considered cheap.
I would live here in a minute.
This house would match a three-year-old’s decor! Matchy matchy inside and out!
So THIS is where The Wiggles live….
I think this is Teh Awesome! My main gripe with HOAs is that they don’t let homeowners do this sort of thing. Sure, you want the exterior in good shape, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be *Fabulous*!
Well I think it’s absolutely fabulous!
I now have the song Funky Town in my head. “wonchu take me to… Funky Houuuuse!”
::plugs ears:: ::ignoring my realtors request to neutralize paint scheme:: nope, not doing it.
This house is a block from where I live!! It has been on and off the market a couple of times, with numerous variously ambitious fix-up jobs in between, including the solar installation on the stand-alone shed-house in the back yard and the paint job. It is a nice neighborhood, but I just gotta say good luck. But on that note, I have seen other houses (not kidding here!) done in the same colors. I actually think somebody designed this colorway and amazingly some other customers have taken them up on the brazen scheme. Google StreetView the address to see the really nice house right next door, built after a fire wiped out the former house. It sold not long ago in the $1.4 million range.
The house is color-coded for easy organization and filing.
If I bought this house I would have to add some crayola-themed showers, just to keep the theme going.
TOTALLY!!! I looooooooove me some crayola showers.
I want this
I think it’s awesome.
Kinda cool, but that staircase at the front? of the house really doesn’t match anything. Needs something industrial there.
Plus I would have added red. Would make it look more like a lego house!
I think we can safely say that the owners do not suffer migraines. Their neighbors on the other hand…
AMAZING! Love it!
With all this effort, why did they fail to paint that one small section in the bottom pic?
I’ve always wondered what happened to Pippi Longstocking’s house, Villa Villekulla…
Punky outgrew her tree house twenty years ago, she has to live somewhere.
Well, that is one way to sober up your alcoholic neighbours. No more hangovers for you, ooooh no!
When paint goes bad. Really, really, bad…..
I’ve seen that house!!!
Btw, I would live there in a second if I could afford it.
I haven’t shown this to her yet….but my 10 yr old daughter wants to live in this house. I can promise you.
I love the colors, actually! It’s like a more urban version of the house in Up. I mean, I’m not sure I’d want to live there myself — more location than the house, really — but I like houses with pizzazz.
I also have trouble with directions, so, you know, if I could tell people “I live in the Crayola house” or something like that it’d make things a lot simpler.
“It’s the house that looks a lot like the Partridge Family bus.”
This reminds me of the house from the movie “UP”
It looks like a box of those 1990′s “day glow” Crayolas puked all over this house.
…I love it.
Call me crazy, but the paint job appeals to me.