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
