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Ray, re: "everyone painted their houses blah white" in the 1950s, again I recommend that you visit Sherwin-Williams for not just their 'Arts & Craft' era paint chart, but for other era paint charts such as 'Jazz Age', 'Streamline', etc., for they have paint charts specific to the fabulous fifties and they're anything but white-especially if you are replicating a newly built ranch home. Also, who's to say that all your 1/87 neighbors kept their houses freshly painted-you could have a neglected bungalow still in original paint scheme. In fact, many bungalows had fallen into disrepair in the '50s thru ' 80s, or were remodeled, often in an awful way, during that time with fake stone or brick covering up the termites, front porches closed in, alum. windows added, insensitive additions on the sides or out back, etc. Many, as I mentioned before, became small businesses with really awful changes. The closer to industrial areas these houses were the more they typically were converted to businesses, or deterioated, and were often a mixture of residential and commercial as zoning changed over the years. As these houses are being restored one can witness often the same scenario-you'll find a mix of houses begging for a more caring owner, remodeling in process, newly painted in original A&C paint schemes, and the neighbors that everyone dreads. Many of these in-town bungalows (as well as other architectural styles-especially Queen Anne, Colonial, Victorian Stick, and Four Square) have been converted to boutiques, law offices and the like.
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