Paint offers an enormous variety of color, texture and pattern to a house. Not only does it enhance and protect the exterior of the buildings in which we live and work, it transforms the way in which we see them so that even their structures can seem changed.
Depending on how it is used, paint has the ability to make small structures appear larger and outsized ones less overwhelming, revitalize a tired and worn surface, or lend a brand-new house the look of mellowed age.
Some plain little houses can be transformed, just by the creative and playful use of paint!
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Bright House in Wallingford
Victorian on Capitol Hill
Cool Colorful Ballard Danish Farmhouse in Ballard
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Colorful Ballard Home
Capitol Hill Painted House for Sale
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Here are some photos of some of my favorite bright and beautiful homes around the Seattle area:
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Another Queen Anne Home
I think I’ll return in the Spring and take a better photo of this unique home. |
Wallingford Victorian
Beautiful and dramatic colors, impeccable craftsmanship, and a playful approach to design set this home apart from others in the neighborhood. This is a beautiful old Victorian shingled home on Capitol Hill, owned by Sally and Richard Pedowitz. What a unique color! A splendid painted lady, indeed!
The yellow trim sets off the pink in the main body of the house very nicely. What fun the owner has had with the paint colors of this home! |
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Not content with the original builders vision of neutral colors schemes and bland palette, the owner proceeded to remodel and redecorate to suit their own desires for the dramatic. Gone was the standard-issue contractors fixtures. In it’s place, dramatic color scheme and clever use of paints. Even the claw-foot tub boasts pretty new “shoes” of silver paint.
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Sometimes paint can make all the difference in the world, in differentiating one cookie-cutter house from another. These contemporary builders homes, very similar in design and materials, have been made unique by bold choice of color.
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This fuchsia color house in Wallingford has nice blue trim accenting the original Swiss Chalet/Tudor Craftsman details. |
 This Wallingford home is reminiscent of a Southern plantation, but the colors are striking. It’s difficult to see, but if you look closely, you will notice that the ceiling of the magnificent front porch is painted a dynamic robins-egg blue. |
 This Crown Hill home is unique in that it is identical to the house next door, but the owner chose to differentiate it from the neighbors by painting it in colorful and dynamic hues. The architect appears to have had some sort of mansard roof/dutch colonial thingie happening… |
 This is an incredible Wallingford Dutch Colonial.
Unusual Life. Amazing Architecture. Strange Places. Cool stuff delivered directly to your in-box. 100% spam-free Architecture is often considered the monarch of the visual arts because all the other categories fit within it or are dominated by it. What is certain is that all buildings are the products of succeeding fashions, each of which mirrored its age. We’ll have many more examples of unusual, creative and multi-hued and painted architectural statements. Please check back often and let me know if you see an unusual or beautiful or particularly stylish painted home to add to this page! |
All photos were taken by Marlow Harris unless otherwise indicated
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Bold Palettes are Pizzazzing up the Neighborhood!
Here’s a colorfully painted house in Wallingford.
Currently no research has been done to see if the Wallingfords built or lived in the house.
This is an incredibly painted house on Capitol Hill in the 900 block of 19th Avenue. 
Shingled Bungalow on Queen Anne.
Capitol Hill Craftsman
Central District
This is another unusual home on Queen Anne, owned by Kevin Schock and his wife. It’s my understanding that it was just a plain little cottage and Kevin decided, when it needed to be resided, to do it in brightly painted plywood sheathing.
These are details from a wonderfully restored home in the Wallingford neighborhood.
This home must be at least 6000 sq. ft. Look at the charming “Eagle’s Nest” on the top floor. Perhaps it was a sleeping porch when it was first built.
Though not painted, this tiled bathroom is an incredible example of dramatic courage in the face of cookie-cutter convention and bland contractors “beige”. I wish everyone had the moxie to go forth with their vision for their personal !
Here is an excellent website by the authors of the Painted Lady books: Victorians painted in three or more colors that highlight the architecture’s ruffles and flourishes.
If your house is a Painted Lady, or you know of one, you can send it to them and they might put it in their next book!
This is a great house in the Wallingford neighborhood, standing proudly on a corner lot in the south part of the neighborood. Not many black houses around, especially with a red roof and bright yellow trim!
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