Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?
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Why are there so many colourful houses in Bristol?
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#2I visited Devon on my trip to the UK and was really surprised to see palm trees around the coast.
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#3It's not unique, there's quite a few and I like them. Friend of mine I knew in Cheltenham UK managed the same when she moved to Gloucester https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/01/rainbow-road-artist-unveils-l...
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#4I visited Devon on my trip to the UK and was really surprised to see palm trees around the coast.
That would be the Devon "Riviera": Torquay/Paignton.
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#5Some of these photos are just around the corner from my house. Weird to see them in Hacker News.
Some of the people who own houses in my area have started hacking off the painted cement and brought the houses back to plain brick. Even some of the ones who had murals painted on them for Upfest (mentioned in the article), it seems a more conservative feel has started taking over. I think it’s sad to see the colours disappearing.
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#6I visited Devon on my trip to the UK and was really surprised to see palm trees around the coast.
Speaking of palm trees in unexpected places, I was excited to see them in Vancouver, BC
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#7In San Francisco, there's Painted Ladies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies
I have this vague, hand-wavy impression it's somewhat common in coastal communities.
I spent some time looking for a term for a particular house style and can't seem to find it. There's a particular style of small house with big windows and shutters typically found in beach vacation towns and they tend to be colorful.
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#8In Greenland they had a system to encode what purpose a building had. For example, if you were in a medical emergency, you would look for a yellow building.
> Red buildings signified churches, schools, teachers’ or ministers’ houses. Yellow colours were assigned to hospitals, doctors, and health care personnel. Green was at first the symbol for radio communication and later became the colour of telecommunications. The colour blue was often reserved for fish factories. Police stations were black.
https://www.polar-quest.com/blog/greenland/the-backstory-of-...
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#9In St. John's NFLD, many houses around the downtown are painted like that as well. I love the look.
Apparently, they would use boat paint because: A) they had a lot of it and B) it holds up well to the elements.
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#10I really wish they'd do this everywhere. In the town I live in there are a lot of houses and shops that are just exceptionally grim to look at. Everything is dilapidated, rotting, grey and pebbledashed. I can't help but think that, even if it's not fixing the root causes of why everything is shit, it would at least make things a bit less miserable and maybe give people a bit of joy and pride again for a pretty low cost. I'm pretty sure they did this exact same thing in a favela or slum somewhere and most of the residents agreed that it substantially improved life in the neighbourhood.