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[Love to Run]

I can't even imagine asking my neighbors' opinions about my choice of house color. Nor would I care what color they chose for their house. There are plenty of ways to distinguish my home if that's a concern. I just don't get the entitlement some seem to feel.

[manny2]

Your color palette is common. That is how people get ideas. They see something they like and copy it.

[manny2]

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@Love to Run wrote:

I can't even imagine asking my neighbors' opinions about my choice of house color. Nor would I care what color they chose for their house. There are plenty of ways to distinguish my home if that's a concern. I just don't get the entitlement some seem to feel.

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You nailed this one @Love to Run  My thoughts exactly with an emphasis on entitlement. 

[icezeus]

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@RetRN wrote:

I can't even believe this post is for real. They may have been planning on that color for a long time. You seem to think the paint color is exclusive for you only--guess what? People are free to paint their homes whatever color they choose. 

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@RetRN 

I am still shocked at the poster who mentioned the OP paint colors being her "intellectual property" and basically how if that was her neighbor that she would not speak with them.

WHAT????

[occasionalrain]

The OP'S  issue is that it's  right next door, twins.

Had a neighbor in the next block copied, she wouldn't have cared. 

[manny2]

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@occasionalrain wrote:

The OP'S  issue is that it's  right next door, twins.

Had a neighbor in the next block copied, she wouldn't have cared. 

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Unless she pays the property tax and mortgage on the house next door. They can choose any color scheme they want. 

So foolish. Everything we say or do tells a story. The story I get is I would not want this person as my neighbor. Can you imagine the petty nonsense.  

[Carmie]

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@manny2 wrote:

Your color palette is common. That is how people get ideas. They see something they like and copy it.

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Quite Common is an understatement.  There must be millions of homes with that color combination.

It is not unique by any means.  When I first read the OP's comments, I thought she came up with something new and different.

When I saw her color choice, my jaw dropped. While her choice is nice, it is a cookie cutter combination.  I see it everywhere all of the time.

It's popular in my neighborhood.  Maybe it's an east coast thing.

[GingerHead]

@Love to Run 

Geeze, I think all this " asking my neighbors' opinions about my choice of house color" started with my innocent post about how a previous neighbor of mine asked for her closest neighbor's opinion's and input regarding her future paint choices. Noone's advocating this, other than me saying that was a considerate thing to do.  

  Everyone's free to do what they want. We're all free to live in cookie cutter communities where our houses all look just alike if we wish.

 Noone's saying this is the end of the world but to those of us who "silly" things like this matter, it does....

[GingerHead]

Also, it should be common sense not to pick the exact color match of your next door neighbor, I would think.

[faeriemoon]

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@GingerHead wrote:

Also, it should be common sense not to pick the exact color match of your next door neighbor, I would think.

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Sums the whole issue up in a nutshell.