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<p>[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 7299, member: 103"]I do know that, but at the actual time, many of them were painted in varied, but utterly lugubrious, shades. Only in the last 60+ years or so, have they been sold to people who lightened the mood by painting them in more joyful colors. Some of them now look as if the Dutch Boy had been on pot when he got to them, but many are elegantly tinted, and trimmed with white ruffles (so to speak). </p><p><br /></p><p>New Haven has some utterly enormous Victorians, which the owners have redone, and then there are some which have had their original colors resurrected. There is one which is a composition in dark brown, dark green and that ochre color that one only sees on painters palettes. The place is porched and gabled and bowed and turretted and fat. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie94" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie102" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverthwait, post: 7299, member: 103"]I do know that, but at the actual time, many of them were painted in varied, but utterly lugubrious, shades. Only in the last 60+ years or so, have they been sold to people who lightened the mood by painting them in more joyful colors. Some of them now look as if the Dutch Boy had been on pot when he got to them, but many are elegantly tinted, and trimmed with white ruffles (so to speak). New Haven has some utterly enormous Victorians, which the owners have redone, and then there are some which have had their original colors resurrected. There is one which is a composition in dark brown, dark green and that ochre color that one only sees on painters palettes. The place is porched and gabled and bowed and turretted and fat. :vomit: :yuck:[/QUOTE]
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