YBS – Yellow Building Syndrome

I like your style primrosefolly….. 🙂

id suggest the emergence of the below product has a lot to do with it……
http://www.facades.ie/downloads/Monopral%20Cemrend%20BBA%20certificate.pdf

why pay 2 trades when 1 will do??….. 😉

A big new retail development has gone up beside me using exactly this muck. Essentially to a developer, yellow paint = architecture.

Unfortunately, yellow sells.

From a developer’s point of view it makes up for design, or rather the lack thereof. Yellow neatly pastes over all these irritating little cracks, and makes the world a happy, happy place.

Sunshine on a rainy day…

ROFL Hahaha – Its threads like this that make archiseek succh the quintiesential resource that it is, h says with a happy yellow face 🙂

If I may propose a reason or two, its that yellow is a lot less needing in maintanence than white – think of the amount of magnolia-to-peach bungalows; also it is bright in a dark corridor or exterior on a dull day.

Roll on the new high king of Ireland, King Magnolia 🙂 :p 🙂

PS Welcome to the site primrosefolly

Often I see that primrose yellow 🙂 going with a terracotta colour 😡 and an orangey one 🙂 /:mad: that lies somewhere in between.

Take a trip to Swords. Now that’s a yellow town!

At least no one will notice if your houses gets egged at Haloween….:)

I don’t know guys .. it’s not just those who know no better who indulge in lurid pallette habits . These pics show what some of the D4 set get up to with a tin of paint . But I suppose Faro and Ball = good taste , Decorend = bad taste .

And look , someone has “restored” the tradional random rubble wall construction at Sandymount Strand . 😮

To me a far greater offence was committed in countless council homes in the 60s / 70’s in splattering them with 20mm aggregate white wet dash render ….

@sinnerboy wrote:

To me a far greater offence was committed in countless council homes in the 60s / 70’s in splattering them with 20mm aggregate white wet dash render ….

Don’t forget the glitther !

what’s tha ?? :confused:

ah sure ye can’t have dash without the glitther !

basically cracked pieces of mirror mixed in to the dash … referred to by many dubs as ‘the glitter’;
are ye gettin’ the glitther maggs ? 😀

Ah jaysus yeah – that looks rapih !:)

now ya have it !

At risk of contradicting everyone, I think the yellow period terraced house in sinnerboys snaps looks really well – as does the pink; its the last/bottom snap with the manky pointing that makes me want to cringe – anything would look better, even some 1980’s style porridge :eek::eek:

That house with the pointed random rubble on Strand Rd is always retch-inducing. Been there for years and I think has been quoted as an example of what not to do. There is another on Sorrento Rd in Dalkey, with a tacky upstairs added on in timberframe. An even worse one recently appeared in Glasthule village – I need to check to see if is for real or if someone is doing a DIY and has run into a problem with the early evenings!
KB.

Here are a few examples of colour and crap (some) windows from Georges St in Dun Laoghaire. The windows in the pink house are particularly ugly – the entrance/doorway is even worse.

Second effort….