A study in scarlet
The South London Press has a story about the Ruggeri family, who've painted their Brockley Grove house pillar-box red, creating a local landmark. Insinctively, we like the sound of this, but the photo on the SLP website doesn't give much indication of what it actually looks like, so if any BC readers can get a better one please, we'll post it here.
UPDATE: Thanks to KayinSE4 we now have this photo with which to judge. On balance, it gets a BC thumbs up.
18 comments:
Does Barratt need its branded flags flying along the road in the way in does along Loampit Vale towards Lewisham station?
With the housing benefits rule changes meaning that claimants are effectively forced out of central London into less expensive areas. I just hope all these developments in this borough are not going to become ghettoes.
Only a percentage of that development will be given to housing associations.
Yeah, nice red house though
When the red house first became red I thought it looked awful but it has really grown on me and I now love the splash of colour!!!
A shame nobody can do anything about the nearby eyesore 1 Brockley Grove -
http://reportemptyhomes.com/report/1302 .
i LOVE it - and they maintain their frontage very nicely
It does look fantastic. I live just around the corner and that stretch of housing is very drab and run-down indeed. The red one really stands out and lifts the area (and it is pillar-box red - the picture in the linked article makes it look orange). It would be great if the other houses in the row would each pick out a bright colour as well. It's just a shame the house has the ubiquitous uPVC double glazing instead of the wooden windows, but it is a very busy road.
Its rank.
Well it's better than that nasty crazy paving/stone cladding that some people have stuck on the front of their Victorian houses in an attempt to make them look like cottages in the Costwolds or something. Or that horrid stick on "lattice effect" that people put on Victorian windows in an attempt to make them look like Elizabethan/Jacobean manor houses. Now that IS rank...
Left turn or right turn from Manwood Road? I would like to take a dekko on my way home before presuming to judge.
Left.
On seeing the word 'Dekko' I wondered how anyone could type the word 'detour' so badly. Then I looked it up.
Thanks for teaching me a new word Tamsin.
I used to live in Bristol and there's a great street up in Totterdown where almost all the houses have been painted in bright colours. They're a great local landmark and it seems to work really well when everyone gives it a go.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksphotos101/3314624886/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricksphotos101/3314625844/in/photostream/
Tobermory is pretty colourful too.
Yup, that's definitely a red house. Is the matching car theirs too?
Took my detour and had a dekko and, yes, despite my initial doubts from the description I like it. Strange how the newspaper photograph so misrepresented the colour. There's also a pale lilac frontage a few houses along. The block is turning into a little bit of Dublin.
BTW dd - did your looking up say were "dekko" derived from? "Recce" is obviously "reconoitre" but "dekko" is in my active idiolect without my knowing its origins.
From Hindustani देखना / دیکھنا (dekhnā), to see, to look.Comes directly from the Hindi "Dekho" (see)
....Apparently
Brilliant. Obviously from my father then. How nice. And thinking about it, my parents also used a phrase pronouced "dekni-kiwasti" - for the purposes of decoration - about useless ornament that had no function other than to look nice - that must come from the same root.
Like the fancy script - when I first saw it I thought it was a new source of spam on the blog.
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