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What Color Would You Never Paint Your Home?

Wed, 01/09/2008 - 10:37am by casasugar
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Orlando Bloom recently painted his $2.75 million Hollywood Hills a near-black shade that has neighbors Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson a bit perturbed.

While I think the house is actually kind of cool-looking (okay, and a bit goth, admittedly), I can see why it would turn off neighbors who have to look at it every day. There are definitely some shades that I'd never dream of painting my house — what are your color no-nos?


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  • Kristinh1012's picture
    Kristinh1012
    4

    SweetnLow, I was going to say the same thing! I wouldn't paint that house ANY of those colors.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • mn48225's picture
    mn48225
    6

    I'd paint colors that compliment the neighborhood and the type of house (i.e. Victorian, Colonial, etc.) If I was living in Bermuda, and all the houses were colorful, I'd paint my house pink.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • ella1978's picture
    ella1978
    7

    I'm with the others above.. how about a "none of the above" choice.. that's where I fall. ew, pink, gold, silver, neon.. how do you chooose between those?

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Carri's picture
    Carri
    11

    Anything neon!! How obnoxious. I've owned two houses, and I've painted both of them blue/grey with white siding on the front. Smiling I guess I know what I like.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • sugarbecky's picture
    sugarbecky
    12

    I would have to go with none of the above, although I don't have a problem with Orlando's color choice.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • sugarbecky's picture
    sugarbecky
    13

    Or I guess it would be all of the above-- I would never paint my house any of those colors.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • kpatel1980's picture
    kpatel1980
    14

    This color isn't bad. It actually looks good. I would go with black as well.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • mouldy's picture
    mouldy
    15

    i would paint it something totally different from the neighbors. like grey and pink! stripes? or flowers?

    then i can say, "my house is the only grey and pink house on the block."

    i don't see anything wrong with orlando's choice of color, i think it's pretty.

    how cool is that, he could borrow some sugar from charlize and scarlett?

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • julieulie's picture
    julieulie
    16

    Totally depends on where the house is. My family has a victorian summer home in Cape May that is light blue and green... fits in perfectly with the neighborhood, because all the victorians are painted that way. I could never, ever paint my house pink though (the house next to ours is!) because I don't like the color. I don't think I'd want to live in a black house, either... can you imagine how hot it would get in the summer?

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • MandyJoBo's picture
    MandyJoBo
    17

    I think his house looks great - at least from what I can tell. I would never paint a house orange because I don't like orange. Actually, come to think of it, Sherbert Orange is OK and much preferable to anything NEON, so I change my vote to neon. I like color and I'm not afraid to use it! I am also a fan of expression and making things match my colorful personality. My car, for example, is custom-painted pink. Eye-wink

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Kelly O's picture
    Kelly O
    20

    I went with neon, but if "all of the above" is an option, please count me in. Now, painting a wall or a room in a "wild" color for accent is another thing entirely, but the whole house?

    I mean, okay maybe a cool deep violet shutter on the right house would work just fine, but not the whole house. I actually don't think the grey would be too bad for an accent color, but it is a bit much on the whole house. Granted, I am not uber-cool Orlando either.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Twinkle's picture
    Twinkle
    21

    I like the almost black. The house appears to recede into the background and the foliage really stands out.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Lizzard214's picture
    Lizzard214
    22

    I went with neon, but all of the above! ... minus black, b/c I think in the right place it could look OK.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • Historygal3's picture
    Historygal3
    24

    Depends where I'm living. My house in Bermuda was pink and blended in perfectly with the neighborhood.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • specialcamper's picture
    specialcamper
    25

    I rather like the black house.

    I wouldn't like to paint my house in many of the choices given, but I went with orange because the color orange makes me angry.
    Does anyone else have emotions tied with colors?

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • emalove's picture
    emalove
    26

    Well, they all sound terrible, but neon is the worst to me. Ugh.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • tdamji's picture
    tdamji
    27

    i would also like to vote for all of them! i don't think orlando's house looks that bad, actually.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • ilanac13's picture
    ilanac13
    28

    i was giong to say pink but then remembered that i lived in miami and that's normal....so NO NEON - that's what i say

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • snapsh0t's picture
    snapsh0t
    30

    It may be the angle, but I see nothing wrong with Orlando's color. As long as it's not electric green or is super unkempt (aka a huge eyesore), I don't think I'd object to someone else's creative choices.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • lovelymiss6's picture
    lovelymiss6
    31

    I think I could handle a silver house, but I would never do anything neon. It would burn the eyes of passerbys.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • jsknutson's picture
    jsknutson
    32

    I like his house. V. cool. I wouldn't paint my house any of the other colors listed really, but I couldn't choose just one, so I said other.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • KimBurnett's picture
    KimBurnett
    33

    My late godmother used to crack me up saying that if someone pissed her off enough she would pay drug addicts to paint their house black.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • CRob's picture
    CRob
    34

    There's a house in my town that is hot pink with orange trim... I figured that the owners must hate their neighbors.

    47 weeks 1 day ago Report Comment
  • king's queen's picture
    king's queen
    35

    There is a house in a neighborhood we drive through that is painted pepto pink and black. We call it the "Pepto House." I would hate to live across the steet and have to look at it all the time. Bleh.

    47 weeks 22 hours ago Report Comment
  • leeapeea's picture
    leeapeea
    36

    I Ireland (and in some towns around here) people paint their houses in all sorts of different, vibrant colors. The folk-lore says people do this so they don't accidentally walk into their neighbor's similarly-colored house by accident when they're drunk.

    47 weeks 19 hours ago Report Comment
  • ms_dior_cherie's picture
    ms_dior_cherie
    37

    anything neon. though I have heard that some people paint their houses bright, vibrant colors to warn off evil or bad spirits.

    47 weeks 19 hours ago Report Comment
  • CaterpillarGirl's picture
    CaterpillarGirl
    39

    I live in florida and for some reason people here like to paint thier houses ungodly colors, like purple and all sorts of pastels, and bright neon colors, its sickening.

    47 weeks 18 hours ago Report Comment
  • karisaamy's picture
    karisaamy
    41

    A friend of mine's mom house was BRIGHT yellow for quite a while, he finnally conviced her to re-paint this past summer. Now it's a far more normal shade of yellow.

    47 weeks 11 hours ago Report Comment
  • specialcamper's picture
    specialcamper
    42

    There is a house in the neighborhood owned by an old veteran who owns a hot dog truck. He paints his house every sports season for his different teams. Right now it is red and gold for the 49ers. It has been black and orange for the Giants and Green and Yellow for the A's.

    47 weeks 20 min ago Report Comment
  • melui's picture
    melui
    43

    It's cool that he painted his house black and not white like the others!
    I wouldn't paint my house neon.

    46 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment
  • lexichloe's picture
    lexichloe
    44

    It depends on the neighborhood, and the adjacent houses. I've seen some crazy colors work perfectly well in very nice neighborhoods.

    46 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment
  • lexichloe's picture
    lexichloe
    45

    OK, just read the above comments...NO MIXING OF COLORS, PEOPLE!!! That's just plain crazy.

    46 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment
  • cougar41's picture
    cougar41
    46

    I kinda like the color of his house BUT it does look dismal.
    I would never paint my house any of the colors in the list.

    46 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • Schaianne's picture
    Schaianne
    47

    Teal blue, purple, neon colors, bright green ... I could go on! I'm pretty conservative!

    46 weeks 4 days ago