Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Advice Needed: Repainting the community after 12 years in residence

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

I've thought about this a lot, usually when I'm on my way home and I see 
our houses in a group.  My opinion about house colors is "let a thousand 
flowers bloom", maybe with the stipulation that certain colors are too 
obnoxious or are so intense that only a few scattered houses will use them, 
or asking immediate neighbors not to select the same color, etc.

I regret my community's "visual unity" decision although I wasn't willing 
to block it, back when - I think it's dull.  I believe the houses in a real 
village would have an idiosyncratic range of colors unless the place was so 
isolated or poor that their choices were extremely limited.

    Muriel
    I'm not saying where, since I just dissed our color scheme :-)

At 10:58 AM 4/15/2010, you wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm a resident at Coyote Crossings Coho in Santa Cruz, CA. We need to
> repaint our community after 12 years in residence. Anyone have any
> experience with how they went about figuring out a palette or letting go of
> a palette at this stage of coho life? Some in our community feel like this
> is a time to let their individual creativity flow. Others are concerned
> about keeping some "visual unity" among all the units.
>
> All suggestions welcome!
>
> thanks,
> Kathy Kelly
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