Looks like Venetian Red - slapping it on as we speak, with dark green
trim - so called 'heritage colours'
Scandanavian heritage perhaps!
AndrewF
On 05/01/2005, at 11:18 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have mentioned to some that I'm painting our house these days. The
> colour
> was chosen by my wife.
>
> It struck me recently that this chosen colour has become very popular
> of
> recent years. Not that we often decide on a predominant colour for
> our OM
> photos.
>
> The background colour of this URL http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ is
> close to
> but a bit darker than the magenta-based colour I am using. It's a very
> striking, rich hue. http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/ is darker
> again
>
> I think the base colour is #99000
>
> The cars that the two females of the house own are this colour
> (daughter is
> always trying to score brownie-points from her mum, and colour could
> well
> have been a factor in choice of car), there is the choice of house
> paint, bed-
> linen purchased for my son Eric is this colour, and it so happens that
> some
> items of clothing (shirts, T-shirts) that I wear are the colour as
> well.
>
> I wonder how long the fad will last?
>
> As a paint colour on wood in our climate, it is a bad choice. Dark
> paints like
> this absorb so much heat from the sun that the wood it sits on becomes
> savagely dried, and cracks greatly. The time required to mend the
> cracks etc
> means that painting time is increased about 5-fold. White makes a lot
> more
> sense.
>
> Back to the spatula (filler), various sanders, and paint-brush.
>
> Brian
>
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