Monday, October 11, 2010

Victorian detail

This is a detail from an idiosyncratically painted Victorian house in East Oakland.  To my eye this is a 1950s color combination but likely painted fairly recently.  But it gets your attention.
Posted by Oakland Daily Photo at 1:58 PM
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5 comments:

  1. MoOctober 11, 2010 at 2:06 PM

    Not much wood in English Victorian.

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  2. MarkaOctober 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM

    And getting the viewers attention can take some effort. The colours and patterns certainly help these railings do that.

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  3. AndyOctober 12, 2010 at 3:27 AM

    You are right. It's a real eye catcher.

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  4. James MarkOctober 12, 2010 at 12:48 PM

    Thankfully it's ready for a repaint; this doesn't work for me at all.

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  5. Louis la VacheOctober 12, 2010 at 9:40 PM

    Indeed, 1950's!
    In 1955, both Packard and Studebaker offered tri-tone paint jobs on certain models with the white/pink.grey (or black) combo - in Studebaker's case, it was offered on the Speedster. In Packard's case, it was on the Caribbean.

    (You KNEW ol' «Louis» would tie this in to cars somehow, didn't you?!)

    ;-D

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