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It's the type of man whose wife wants a pink house, and he wants to make her happy.
after reading this, I just had to post this. This is Brooklyn NY's pink Brownstone. It was painted this color back in the 60's. The mans wife liked pink, (obviously) she has since passed and the Brownstone remained pink for decades.
The neighborhood is historic and land marked, but since it was pink before landmarks was started, it was "grandfathered". It was then again re painted this shade of "pepto" pink, much to the neighbors horror. According to the owner it was the wrong color.
The Brownstone was sold a few years ago for a few million dollars and has since been restored to being painted Brown. Yes, it was an eye sore, yes it was ugly, but some of us liked it and some didn't. WE would pass this house everythime we were in the Park Slop neighborhood.
I love the looks of a Craftsmen house but I have never been in one.
I love my open kitchen. If I didn't have that I would never see my DH, lol. He likes the recliner and TV and I am either cooking, cleaning or sitting at the island.
I am only in the "living room" a couple of hours a day....maybe
I totally agree. I love cooking and being involved in the house goings on at the same time. I hate prepping an elaborate dinner tucked away - but I love prepping dinner. Nice to be able to do both.
I would love, love, love it if I found a house with an original pink bathroom. Yup, all pink fixtures and pink tiles too! I could settle for blue or mint green, but pink would be fabulous. I have seen pink fixtures on craigslist, but unfortunately I couldn't use them in my house at the time. Oh, a pink kitchen would be something I could live with too. Even my husband is okay with this.
after reading this, I just had to post this. This is Brooklyn NY's pink Brownstone. It was painted this color back in the 60's. The mans wife liked pink, (obviously) she has since passed and the Brownstone remained pink for decades.
The neighborhood is historic and land marked, but since it was pink before landmarks was started, it was "grandfathered". It was then again re painted this shade of "pepto" pink, much to the neighbors horror. According to the owner it was the wrong color.
The Brownstone was sold a few years ago for a few million dollars and has since been restored to being painted Brown. Yes, it was an eye sore, yes it was ugly, but some of us liked it and some didn't. WE would pass this house everythime we were in the Park Slop neighborhood.
here is a picture:
The first thing that comes to mind is Emergency services would have no problem finding the house. I must be getting old..
But don't get me started on brownstones. Years ago they couldn't give them away. If only I knew then what I know now I'd be rich.
I stopped watching HGTV regularly. Occasionally, I'll still watch House Hunters International, or Beachfront Bargain Hunt, if I see them. I got tired of watching shows where people would walk into a perfectly normal kitchen and/or bathroom and say something like: "EWWWW! This is totally outdated, and must be completely gutted, immediately!"
Since bathrooms with colored fixtures were brought up, I'll mention my aunt and uncle's bathroom. He inherited the house before they were married, but it needed lots of work. So, he worked to remodel the house before their wedding, in the summer of 1990. Because they were young, and wanted the trendiest stuff, they installed matching burgundy vanity top, tub, and toilet, with polished brass hardware. Needless to say, all of that stuff has since been replaced.
My Dh is not like yours. He will say to me when he sees a pink house. What kind of man would live in a pink house He's my dinosaur and a truly wonderful man but draws the line at pink, lol.
One of my girlfriends told my husband he must be very secure in his masculinity when I painted our bedroom pink. I do know he likes the color. We've also had pink walls in a kitchen before, at his suggestion.
Here's something from the site I linked earlier about how pink and blue weren't always designated for girls or boys.
Quote:
Pink was not always the color for girls, Blue was not always the color for boys
Real men DO have pink bathrooms. You see, a university professor, Jo Paoletti of the University of Maryland, actually has done extensive academic research studying why the color pink today has come to be associated with girls and the color blue, with boys. Seems like the shift did not begin until the beginning of the 20th century and even then, it took until after World War II for this yet-another gender distinction to become entrenched. Before that, parents used a variety of colors for their children’s clothing and rooms. So, in the 1930s, when pink bathrooms started to appear, I surmise that pink did NOT mean girlie or effeminate — it just meant “lovely.”
The University of Utah Press will publish Jo Paoletti’s monograph, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, in 2010. Ad: Kohler, 1954.
Oh, I just remembered the house across the street from me way back when; it was a range with pink stucco on top and light to medium yellow brick on the bottom. And this is in Minnesota! It might sound weird, but it was a very beautiful color combination on a very nice house. Pink and yellow is my favorite color combination.
On my goodness. My grandparents built a house in Florida in the 1950s and they had the pink bathroom. We loved that house and all the tropical gardens around it! It was such an oasis. Even the exterior was pink.
Their pink bathroom fitted the era of the house, but not in the poodle art style people think of. The fixtures were pink, but the floor tiles were pale gray and charcoal gray, which made it more sophisticated. Then there were pale pink tiles that went up to about chest level on all the walls, and above that was a silvery wallpaper with large pink flowers, green lily pads and swans. The wallpaper was perfect with all the pink and gray tiles.
I saw the house listed a few years ago, and the current owner had ripped out all that perfect tile and installed dark earthy stone instead, which does NOT fit the Old Florida style of the house at all. The house is not an earthy house. The decor had been done in pale aquas, blues and greens when my grandparents lived there. The new owner painted all the walls white and drained all the character out of the house. The charm is gone.
That house of your grandparents sounds so cool. My next door neighbors when I was a child in Chicago had a pink kitchen. Ahhh... it's their fault! Haha!!! I remember being seven and thinking how much I liked it.
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I could settle for blue or mint green, but pink would be fabulous. I have seen pink fixtures on craigslist, but unfortunately I couldn't use them in my house at the time. Oh, a pink kitchen would be something I could live with too. Even my husband is okay with this.
He's my dinosaur and a truly wonderful man but draws the line at pink, lol.
It might sound weird, but it was a very beautiful color combination on a very nice house. 
I remember being seven and thinking how much I liked it.
