Painting By Numbers House is a new house that contains no colours but every surface and feature is primed and ready to be painted. To facilitate a co-ordinated colour scheme, absolutely everything has a tiny number printed on it comprising of three digits and three letters.

These numbers and digits correspond to a supply of the exact amount of the various paint colours required to make your house look exactly like the one portrayed in the corresponding book of printed renderings. It all works like Painting By Numbers except there are choices and this is an actual house and not a canvas.

Choose the "Pscho-delish" for example and end up with purple ceilings; magenta light switches; orange doors with red door handles; yellow skirting and bright green moulding. Perhaps "Trump' Surprise" is more to your liking and if so you will find gallons of gold; silver and gloss black in the range. (surprise surprise) For country orientated folk there is the "Broccolike-it-like-that" featuring earthy greens and browns. Or mabe you just like lots of white, in which case there is the Whitey-On- The-Moon range named after the brilliant Gill-Scott Heron song (link).
-- xenzag, Nov 27 2021

Gill-Scott Heron https://m.youtube.c...3nzoPopQ7V0&t=0&t=0
Whitey-On-The-Moon [xenzag, Nov 27 2021]

Being a regular painter, (watercolor), the beauty and the purpose of using that medium is the wonderful, random bleeds that occur. Sometimes you think it's probably a new color you've just made or a design that no one has ever painted before. SOOOO,

What I don't like, and I think others should think this way too, is not to copy what someone else sees as a rose, but to paint what you comprehend a rose's form and such looks like, and choosing the colors you see is part of planting your personality on the canvas/paper/wall.

So neutral for a vote. Your other ideas are holding this one up for me.
-- blissmiss, Nov 28 2021


You do realise that this is a real house......
-- xenzag, Nov 28 2021


I think two things about this. One is that you could have a kind of dual-aspect thing, were there are intricate patterns printed on the wallpaper and woodwork. One set of decoding sheets would make everything nice serene uniform blocks of grey, the other would unleash a riot of chinoiserie with peacocks and pagodas and little birds. Should be fairly easy to load 100 different design themes into a computer and have it spit out a single layout of code numbers and borders and 100 decoding sheets allowing one of the schemes to be made.

The numbers and borders could be projected onto the walls using a video-projector, this would allow repainting as often as you liked to re-do the decor.

Secondly, I think this is simply a slight adjustment to the idea of modularity, where everything is interchangeable, and yet modular designs usually fail, because it is cheaper to design and build individual different designs and most people prefer to forego the choices and buy one design off the shelf.
-- pocmloc, Nov 28 2021


Of course, xen. I just wanted to rant.
-- blissmiss, Nov 28 2021


The Watercolour Rant; soon be a rap track on the nearest dance floor. Wouldn't it be great if there was Watercolour Rap? It could join The Calligrapher Rap, with italic pens replacing the usual Mac10s and Uzis in the lyrics.
-- xenzag, Nov 28 2021


I ... like broad strokes and I cannot lie.
-- pertinax, Nov 28 2021



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