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In this video I will show you quite a few Italian Colored Houses, exterior color inspiration that I hope will inspire you to paint your home, maybe use these ideas for a living room, nursery, front porch, kitchen cabinetry, anything that could work for you and inspire you. It might be time to paint the exterior of your house a great color, it’s summer you can do it yourself. I remember one summer my mother painted one window a week all summer long. We had a white clapboard house with all windows everywhere, the front must have been 15 windows and she painted them all Aqua Blue. Change is easy if you get moving.
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If you get into studying historic paint, pigments and recepies, you'll find there's lots of context for these combinations and the chosen pigments (that also correspond with architectural styles and materials). I've noticed very rarely do American art professionals use the proåer names of colors, unless they're painters with some form of academic background and It's surprising and a pity as there's alot tp gaim from a common language and understanding, since as you said, perceptions are always subjective.
You're in Italy, you'll find the entire country mapped out in these pigments! Pompeii Rosso Naples Giallo, Umbra, Terra di Sienna, the different cotto, regional stones from sandstone to marble in all thinkable shades, to volcanic toufa, they are tied not only to regions, but all have different mineral content that not only produces the colors, but gives them specific chemical properties and widely different ph levels so how they're used and with what other mediums is a question of what works, is useful, not only preferences. All this is far before all our modern synthetic colors, but even then the range you could get from metal rich earth pigments depending on if you burnt them, added strong acids etc are quite amazing. Almost all pf Europe's historic painted façades came about for specific reasons. In Italy where the heritage is highly protected, an owner of a historic house can't simply choose any color paint they like. There is sometimes room for preferences but only if they are documented in the houses history or may have been used originally.
Anyone who's bought older property in Italy will know how strict and extremely local all regulations are in regards to the exteriors of property, down to the approved color of a pool liner is.
Which many foreigners investing complain about, but it's what has kept vast areas of Italian views virtually intact for hundreds or even thousands of years!
I live in a historic part of Stockholm where all the buildings are painted similarly.
The colors evolve and change with the architectural era. From mideval to 18th century.
I find the best time to capture the colors on camera is around 5 am on a sunny summers day (it's lighter here in summer so that would be early morning where you are). The pigments actually glow then.
There's a famous narrow house here that's interesting bc it's the only one that's an intense cobalt blue, or even ultramarine. Nobody can explain how the paint was made originally, as the amount of pigment needed to make such a saturated blue would be so huge the paint (including chalk) would be instable and the price astronomical. These blues were once reserved for only the cloak of the Madonna all over Europe for good reason.
As the story goes, the young housepainter who took pver after hos father, went bankrupt in the process, havimg promised the client an impossible color for an unreasonable price. Imagine that… It was recently repainted bc it needed paint, but is now a drab greyish blue, bc nobody knows how that blue is achieved using the historically available mediums at the time. So sad! 😭 I love your cut garden and rain cloud! ❤️🙏