Another "SO CALLED" Colorful Cottage!

It may astound and amaze you but I do actually have a full-time job at a commercial real estate company.  Oh how I WISH my REAL JOB was blogging and painting and decorating and playing on Pinterest .....but alas......I have bills to pay, so I sell industrial buildings, service stations, retail centers, office buildings, etc during my non-blogging/decorating hours. 

Today I received an email from a residential website advertising a COLORFUL COTTAGE...and since those are two of my FAVORITE words, I just had to peek.  I'm voyeuristic like that! 

True to it's word, the house IS colorful.  I like the fence but probably would have manicured the yard a bit more if I were selling my house...but, hey....that's just me.

This is in a section of Houston close to downtown, where the houses are fairly small and the prices are large.  This home was renovated and walls knocked down to make it more spacious and flow better.

How about a milk chocolate colored den?  See the sweet doggy at the window WISHING he could come in to enjoy the air conditioning?

Now here's a colorful kitchen.  Blue laminate counter tops and sunshine yellow walls.
Here's one of the bedrooms.....pish tosh....is THIS what they call colorful???  LOL!  They should definitely come and visit my house---I'd show them colorful.  In fact, as I'm typing this I just glimpsed a bit of PURPLE paint on my fingernail.  GUESS what I did this weekend?
 Now this is a challenging color palette to work with. My nephew bought an older house with this exact same pink and burgundy tile.

 I liked all the windows and light in this house.  This must have been a back porch that they enclosed. 

 One of the bedrooms, turned into an office. 

 And what a bright and happy porch/sitting area.  Artwork is awesome!

AHHHHHHHHHH....the pool!  That turquoise-y blue water ALWAYS gets me and is truly a favorite color!

Candy Colored Houses

As you can tell by my Blog Name....I LIKE color! And it looks like a lot of people in my neighborhood do too. This white house throws in color with window trip and a bright front door. There also a stained glass insert above the windows for another pop of color. This is big house a new-build made to look old and I think they did a good job of keep in character with the rest of the neighborhood.

Lot's of these "shot-gun" type houses are cropping up. They can put 2 or 3 of them on the big lots.

Now here's one with some COLOR, don't you agree?!?!

This peach house with the wrap around porch is a favorite style of mine.

This is a very typical home found in The Heights. Love the cheery yellow and can you imagine how many times that screen door has slammed with people coming in and out. Remember...I LOVE doors!

Here's another pretty yellow one with a wrap around porch and a lovely metal roof! You can also tell there are beautiful big trees in this neighborhood. Hurricane Ike didn't get most of them....YEAH!!!

And this rust colored home isn't exactly "candy colored" but I thought it was interesting...and no doubt colorful.

This bright pink house sort of matches the crepe myrtle in the front (see it blooming!?!?)

This duplex reminded me of fall with the soft yellows and pumpkin color doors.

And here's another new build in pale orange. It's a pretty house but I'm not so sure about the two small porches on the left! They just seemed to undersized to me.

And here's a favorite of mine. So picturesque....love the way they painted the porch, and the contrasting paint.

This soothing grey-green house is pretty too, don't you think?!?!

And another green one, with scales and stained glass.

And just one more......dark green with terra cotta accents. Isn't the porch railing divine?

Well, there ya go....another winding drive home from work....and more houses discovered. Thanks for joining me for the tour.