Comments on: tour review — pacific heights (sf architectural heritage)

By: SFluxe » Homes Pacific Heights » SF Architecture

SFluxe » Homes Pacific Heights » SF Architecture — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:54:15 +0000

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By: richard - sparkletack

richard - sparkletack — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:43:30 +0000

I believe you are right about colors other than the whites, greys and browns mentioned by the guide originating much earlier than the 1960s.

I just ran across a book called “Authentic Color Schemes for Victorian Houses” published in 1883, which talks about the new vogue for painting Queen Annes in a much more interesting palette — olive, russet, citrine, buff, plum, and sage, among other colors.

The guide must have meant that a revival of these started in the ’60s, as you suggest, or that a much brighter color scheme appeared at that point… or perhaps she was simply mistaken!

Not my area of expertise, but I’d love for some smart reader/listener to shed some light on this point.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:03:18 +0000

I have my doubts about the ‘painted ladies’ thing originating from the 1960’s. The whole ‘historical’ color phenom may have gained steam then, but the colors came from palettes that had their heyday at the turn of the century. If it was only the 1960’s I have my doubts that my friends in Anderson, IN would have painted their Victorian houses there in the same colors as what’s big in SF. You know?