A colorful house

Ahhh Spring! I am so Sleepy! We have a proverb "春眠、暁を覚えず". This is pretty much the same as "In spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn" in English. In such sleepy day, I would rather introduce easy, or funny pages to look at. For such cases my favorite site,"Nifty Portal Z", is always useful. I do not always get a big laugh from their page, but their "playful spirit" is so nice. I cannot live without a sense of fun! The last two times were yami-nabe, and a natto restaurant. Since both were food topics. This time I will pick a non-food topic.

Actually I love this post "dye and tints house". Shortly they collected images of vividly colored houses just like an experiment in real estate landscape terrorism :-p. In your country, are these colors normal? Are they easy to find? For Japanese, it is hard to accept!! I do not want to have a Bill Gates colored house. Yes they call it the Bill Gates color because MS office set this color as their default in Power Point. Next one is yellow houses,like the site says, I wonder if this could be related to Dr.Copa's feng shui telling. He says "Yellow is money"!! I've heard that his commercial brand of feng shui is far different from the original Feng Shui ideas. The long recession seems to have made people crazy for fortune telling and feng shui geomancy. At any rate, surely they must have some reason for picking Blue and Pink as paint colors for a house? If so, I have no idea what that reason might be. Anyway I suppose they look nice they are on display like this.

Anyway I could not help showing this food topic (>o<) from Portal Z. So useless but so funny. She loves quail eggs, so she ate, ate ate and ate, then she tried to hate even look at them. I love quail eggs too, so I left an egg like this as dessert too!! I don't know how many she ate, but finally it seemed that she could not look at another quail eggg for a while. Ha! I want to try that.

Comments

[bingobangoboy]

I associate those kinds of coloured houses with certain European countries...
In North America, it's quite rare and eccentric. Actually, I see more brightly-coloured houses in Japan than I ever did in Canada.
In fact, in some cities there are city laws against brightly-coloured houses. In my town, you were only allowed by law to paint your house one of three colours: White, light grey, or light beige. Very boring. Usually I don't like gaudy colours, but I like those houses because they're so different.

[Mari]

Recently I am enjoying to watch Google map which show me satelite good picture. It is very intereting. And I could find, Most of American house and building have white, grey, brown, orange roof. What do you think? I could not find green or pink house yet.

Hi Gwen and Haung
Yes I like her challenge too! I will pick Yakiimo as food I need to hate it.

[huang]

I like food topics too !

[Gwen]

I like food topic \(^ ^)/

In the USA, some people paint their house these colors but it is not a popular thing to do. Paint is not very expensive but other things such as furniture, draperies/curtains, carpeting, flowers and many other little things are difficult and expensive to match color with the inexpensive paint.

Such strange colors as "Bill Gates" decrease the value of the home. Neighbors also do not approve. Natural colors or very light colors are more popular.

Here is an example:
When my friend told me his wife painted one inside room a dark, strong color I laughed and told him his wife would soon want to purchase new carpet and new furniture. My prediction came true 3 weeks later.