thinks a bit

Is it really true that houses need to have contrasting colors, that that objectively is preferable? Maybe it's just what we're used to, so it feels more "normal".

Like, I can certainly think of architectural styles that don't have much color variety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Est%C3%A9van_del_Rey_Mission_Church

The San Estévan del Rey Mission Church stands at the northern end of the large plaza that takes up the southern end of the mesa top that houses Sky City, the traditional Acoma pueblo settlement that has been continuously occupied since prehistoric times. It is a large adobe structure, built in a wall and beam construction style.

Brutalism often just exposes the raw color of concrete for the whole exterior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Carre%C3%B1o_Cultural_Complex

Architectural style: Brutalist

A lot of modern architecture styles go in for a stark white:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Paul_Poiret

Villa Paul Poiret in Mézy-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France, is an early 1920s Cubism-inspired Art Deco private house originally designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.

The house stands in 48,500 square metres (12.0 acres) of parkland in Mézy-sur-Seine, to the west of Paris, overlooking the Seine Valley. It is constructed in reinforced concrete in a geometric style, has 25 rooms on three levels, 800 square metres (8,600 sq ft) of internal space, an upper terrace with panoramic views, and a 7-metre-tall (23 ft) corner salon with floor-to-ceiling windows.[1]

Greek Revival architecture exteriors tend to have the same sort of uncolored surface. Amusingly, this was based on a misunderstanding of Greek architecture

we often think of classical Greek statues and buildings as white marble, though that's because the paint that was once on there wore away prior to archeologists discovering them. In the early US, we used it a lot in government buildings because it was associated with democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture

EDIT: And the styles based on Spanish Colonial stuff are often monocolored other than having a terracotta roof:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Colonial_Revival_architecture

Not the brick 😭 will people stop fucking painting brick? You can never undo it, it's bad for the brick and it's ugly af. Leave brick alone.

The ol “landlord special” method

We have someone here that did the same, but with white. Siding is white. Brick foundation and walkway-white. Chimney shutters windows doors, everything white. Also hired someone and they did a terrible job, you can see all over spots where they didn't put enough paint. It genuinely looks like a monstrous bird took a shit on it.