Pastel Houses

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18 Comments

  1. Bret on May 19, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    I’ve always liked these two houses. They remind me of the little brick houses all over the West End in Saint Paul.

  2. ironic1 on May 19, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Yep, these houses make me happy. They’re on 6th Ave E just up from the Coop, yes?

  3. wildgoose on May 19, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Well, yeah, they make me happy, too. But rather than offer anything else, I thought it would be nice to see what others had to say … About where they are, about who lives there, why they were built in this way, who decided to paint them as such, and why. As nice as true anecdotes would certainly be, exaggerations or straight fiction are just fine, too. Maybe even better.

    Another fun exercise I have tried is to list the differences. Kind of like those drawings they have in highlights for kids.

  4. jesusita on May 19, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    I call those the baby boy and baby girl houses whenever I go by. I’ve always wondered why they were painted like that so close together and who owned them both.

  5. Ramos on May 19, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    The blue house is a rental. It was known as the Animal House a few years ago, due to its residents’ excessive partying. Nowadays it’s quiet.

  6. Todd Gremmels on May 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Fantastic color combo!!!!!

    The punctuation is for my friend Barret!!!!

    Peace

    Todd

    PS Do not forget Cash and Young Sacred Heart

    May 28th 7:00pm

  7. Beverly on May 19, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    I’ve always imagined they’re the result of WLSSD’s free paint shelf.

  8. Todd Gremmels on May 19, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Thats funny Beverly!!! Dusty painted his house with free paint and it is just up the street.

    His house has just about the same effect on the neighbor hood.

    Peace
    Todd

  9. zra on May 19, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    i gots lotsa free paint. anyone want it?

  10. Megan on May 19, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Ugh. I used to live in the pink one. The landlord is a serious douche…or the landlord at that time. Slumlord.

  11. "Frank" on May 20, 2009 at 4:55 am

    Have you ever seen a portal?…

  12. Dan E. on May 20, 2009 at 6:19 am

    They both need to be sand blasted and brought back to their original brick color.

  13. Goldilocks on May 20, 2009 at 8:57 am

    I had always thought of them as his & hers houses. I figured that there was a married couple who loved each other but just couldn’t live together so they lived side by side so that they could be close. It’s all very romantic.

  14. Carrster on May 20, 2009 at 11:04 am

    I imagined the owners REALLY wanted to be in the Caribbean but couldn’t afford it so brought a little color home.

  15. Karasu on May 20, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Painting brick is a crime.

  16. Marin on May 21, 2009 at 9:46 am

    Edward Scissorhands much?

  17. Poster on May 24, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    These days it’s 2 group homes owned by the same company. A girls house and a guys house. Notice the ramps?

    (Ps. I may have made that up…)

  18. Poster on May 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    *ramp

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