Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Choosing Colors

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, PattyMara Gourley wrote:

> Ahem.  This is the part that echoes Liz's post.  Our beautiful bold
> colors faded unevenly, with the southern exposures, of course, fading
> more quickly.  The estimates to repaint are high because of the labor
> involved in all those colors.  And the labor costs are rising anyway. 
> What we may have to do in the present, is bite the bullet and repaint the
> bold colors for now (which will be paid for by a rise in HOA dues) and
> five years down the road when the reserves call for repainting the
> stucco, veer onto another color palette of just ONE color to help keep
> the costs of future maintenance sustainable.  Bummer huh?

Ummm, painting isn't terribly difficult, just labor intensive.  I would 
encourage the residents to do a bit of community building and paint it 
themselves.

-- Matt
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