Why do we have a pink house????

We have been asked the question many times as to why do we have a pink house? Some people make fun of it and others just scratch their heads. When Della and I added on our art gallery 24 years ago, we had added a lean to shed roofed addition that made the old house look a little newer. The house up to that time was painted with an Olympic Overcoat, dark red-brown overcoat because it covered up bad siding. When we picked out the paint chip, both of us being artist, thought it would look nice to have the grayed red color that we had been seeing on other houses. We looked at the chip, bought three gallons and went home. It is like a rose quartz. When we started to paint, it went on dull but was such a contrast to that brown that it looked great. As we continued, we thought we had made a mistake, it sure wasn't the color we wanted. Since you really can't take back premixed paint and we were young, we just continued on and used up the paint. It grew on us as the more that the brown paint was covered up the better it looked.
Both us knowing our art history knew that it was close to the color that Claude Monet painted his house in France. The color was made by adding to white paint, a ground-up red brick powder. This is how his color was intentionally made and could a great painter like Monet be so wrong. It has stayed pink, brown is it's base and it is lightened to this color. It really isn't pink, and we have added the green accents to it with shutters. The new porch I built last summer fits right in and makes the house look great. The light of the seasons makes it look differently and the favorite time is summer and fall.
Below are pictures of Monet's painting of waterlilies, and a photo of one of his house in the background. His gardens at Giverney are very famous. He has a pinkish house and one other of his buildings is periwinkle blue. Maybe some day we will change it but for now we are happy with it.












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