What to do with all your tiny bits of leftover paint…
- Buy a house.
- Use leftover bits of paint to paint each shingle, window, and plank of your new home a different color.
- Delight in your kooky abode.
- End up on Offbeat Homes and other like-minded websites and blogs.
Pretty cool. It reminds me a little of Dick & Jane’s House. Visit Colorful House in Russia to see more images of this nicely panted house.
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31 opinions for What to do with all your tiny bits of leftover paint…
Kelsey M
Oct 8, 2008 at 11:22 am
Wow! that’s all I can say is wow! that and my husband would divorce me for even thinking about asking him to do that! LoL
CanCan (Mom Most Traveled)
Oct 8, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hooray! What an unexpected treasure!
Kristen M.
Oct 8, 2008 at 11:56 am
What do they do when it comes time to touch-up the paint?? lol
Cathy
Oct 8, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The neighbors would hate it, but I’d love to be brave enough to do something that colorful and fun.
Karen
Oct 8, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Love this blog, I’m always excited when there is a new entry. Now I know what to do with my old paint! I think I would give my HOA Board a heart attack…could be fun!
Cami
Oct 8, 2008 at 12:56 pm
That’s quite the paint job! At least it seems to have order to the pattern and not completely random. I wonder if they got the idea from a gingerbread house!
Heather
Oct 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Well, this past week, I’ve been taking savory items (tomatos, peppers, zuchini, basil) rough chopping them, freezing them together in containers, and then poppig them ut of the container into bags to use later this winter as soup base, or pasta sauce base. I am so burned out on canning!!
Also, the week before, I roasted a bunch of stuff together and bagged it and froze it.
Fruity stuff is going in smoothies. Lots and LOTS of smoothies. :)
Lalycairn at gmail.com
Heather
Oct 8, 2008 at 12:59 pm
ok, so I just totally posted that on the wrong blog, I am so sorry. LOL!!!! I would have a hard time living in the house painted like a gingerbread hosue, but it sure is fun to look at!!
Lalycairn at gmail.com
Jennifer Chait
Oct 8, 2008 at 1:03 pm
@Heather - you confused me. I’m fighting the flu, and all loopy, so for a minute I was thinking… hmmm, did I accidentally post about vegetables instead of a house. I’m leaving it though, because it makes me laugh, we just never talk about canning here :)
@Everyone else - good luck.
Janelle
Oct 8, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Looks like a fun place to live. You never have problems giving directions.
Kamber
Oct 8, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I think that house looks amazing. I wish I could do something like that.
loralie
Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 pm
multi-colors looks cool to me. my husband wouldn’t go for it either.
Jen
Oct 8, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I would so do that to my house.
Which is probably why it’s a good thing I’ll never own my own house.
Audra
Oct 8, 2008 at 3:03 pm
We’ll mark that house off on our hunt.
Lindley
Oct 8, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Can you imagine living next door to that? I’d love to drive past it to take a look and I appreciate all the hard work, but I think it would make it hard to live next door! Thanks, and the canning made me laugh too!
Huguette E.
Oct 8, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Wow, that is quite unusual!
Elizabeth M.
Oct 8, 2008 at 5:49 pm
It looks like a playhouse in an imaginary land or else something that belongs in a theme park.
Theresa Shafer
Oct 8, 2008 at 6:22 pm
lol - I love the photo. so glad it is not the house next to mine. Or in my neighborhood.
alianora
Oct 8, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Wow! What an amazing place! It looks like something out of a fairy tale.
Jess
Oct 8, 2008 at 7:24 pm
That looks like fun…
Jillish
Oct 8, 2008 at 8:08 pm
My first thought is how do you touch that paint job up when it starts to show weather? I’d hate the thought of reworking it every few years… so much labor!
ikkinlala@yahoo.ca
Oct 8, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I can’t imagine how long it would have taken to paint that house!
Cindi
Oct 8, 2008 at 9:25 pm
There is a house in a town near me where two Swiss brothers painted their house very ornate!
Love it. Thanks, Cindi
Bebemiqui
Oct 9, 2008 at 7:30 am
Honestly, if we ever own a home, I could see me doing that to it.
bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com
Ecogeek
Oct 9, 2008 at 8:54 am
I keep old cans of paint in case of touch ups, but if I lived here I think I’d have to reconsider that policy.
Suzanne
Oct 9, 2008 at 10:28 am
I love it, but would never have the nerve. I used to own a beautiful painted lady c. 1895 in Colorado Springs, and she came in shades of teal with bright pink accents, but I never would have done that myself. Maybe I need to stop trying to blend in….
Noreen
Oct 9, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I wonder how long it took them to paint that
Katy
Oct 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I should try this in a bedroom. Husband is a general contractor and we have eleventy-zillion leftover cans of paint in various shades. (There’s no way I’d do it on the outside like this, the self-conscious teenagers of the family would skin me alive.)
Diana Corlett
Oct 10, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Surprisingly, I kind of like the look. A fairytale house…using paint instead of gingerbread and candy decorations.
Love to win too!
dlcwin[at]gmail[dot]com
Jessi A
Oct 11, 2008 at 9:01 am
I think someone very cheerful lives here!!!
chris swanson
Oct 11, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I love that house. I would love to do that. I usually paint my shed with the leftover paint. It has been yellow, green and white before.