painted houses

Homes with pigment

Painted houses are dwellings with exterior paint applied, as opposed to bare wood, brick, or siding.

The phrase appears in real estate descriptions and neighborhood regulations.

In mafia slang, a painted house is a location where blood has been spilled—a murder scene: The job went wrong and now we've got a painted house.

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Victorian · New England · San Francisco · historic district · cottages · murals · brushstrokes · ladders · scaffolding · pastel · weathered · peeling · fresh · clapboard · siding · quaint · neighborhoods · street view

Categories
Opposites
exterior surface treatment

painted houseslog cabins

Dwellings of stacked timber

brick houses · stone houses · clapboard houses · whitewashed houses

material authenticity/natural state

painted housesraw materials

Unprocessed production inputs

untreated wood · weathered wood · rustic cabins

material visibility

painted housesexposed brick

Uncovered interior wall material

natural stone

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G