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作者: 匿名 时间: 2012-10-14 16:36
标题: 房屋外墙颜色文化
昨天，对面老外邻居拿着一盒饼来我家，当时只有父母在家不太懂英文，以为她欢迎我们新屋入伙。随之等我们回来之后，却对我们说我家的外墙颜色在美国文化里是属于妓院的意思。听到这样的话，我们都觉得好生气。本来我们要的颜色不是鲜艳的粉红色，随之油起来才知道，我们又懒得退货所以只能油上了。如果真是有这样的文化，点解一开始我们油的时候他们不对我们说，等我们搬进来之后才对我们说呢？求高人解释一下是否真的存在这样的文化。对面老外邻居是做生意的就可以这样直白的说这样的话吗？太不尊重我们了！令人气愤！

作者: 帝企鹅XEON 时间: 2012-10-14 18:07
1. 估计在你们没有完工之前，老外都不知道你们房子最终会是怎么样的。
2. 的确是存在这样的文化的。
3. 估计要是有人建议你们换一下外墙的颜色而不告诉我原因的话，我肯定不会理睬他。

作者: KT000000 时间: 2012-10-14 19:34
人家是善意的提醒。当然如果社区有规定的话，可能要换颜色，否则人家可以告你。

作者: KT000000 时间: 2012-10-14 19:35
Home Owner Regulations on House Color: Pink

Introduction

Homeowner associations (HOAs) are formal legal associations which maintain a residential area. They make the laws within the area. Some of their functions are to get fees from the residents to keep on going neighborhoods operations. Collect money to preserve public property within an area for example a swimming pool and more. However, some of their functions encroach upon the property rights of others, like a homeowner's association can enforce regulations like the number of pets and the kind of pets one might keep, regulations on the diving board of your swimming pool, or against a pink house. Yes, an HOA can even forbid you for having a pink house.

Homeowners associations first emerged in the country of A in the mid-nineteenth century. However, they became more common in the 1960s after the Federal Housing Authority started to develop more and more residential areas for housing. The reasons for homeowners associations coming into being were a shortage of land and a cultural want of having uniform architecture. Initially, a lot of the rules were racially motivated, i.e. the limited certain races from owning property in a certain area. These rules were banned in 1968 by the Fair Housing Act. Today, HOAs levy taxes, enforce rules regulate activities and provide services. They can even stop you from having a pink house.

CC&Rs or covenants, conditions and restrictions are rules imposed on homeowners by a homeowners association. They can vary from the height of a diving board on your personal pool to what pets you can keep. Some rules even dictate the appearance of your house. If the paint color on your exterior walls does not adhere to the aesthetics of your homeowners association then you will have to change it. Most associations forbid residents to paint their houses in any color that is considered to wild or unconventional. For example most homeowners associations have restrictions on gold painted houses or pink houses.

Most homeowners associations have list of acceptable colors for the outer wall paint of a house. The reason they give is that one of their principle reason of being needed or being present is that they keep the property value of an area high. Crazy colors like pink or anything else unconventional make a community an undesirable place to live in and so the value of the area goes down. When homeowners associations have issues with a houses paint color they can fine the owners or ask them to repaint the house in a given period of time.

Tips and comments

Tips for when you go for painting your house exterior are, first of all don't go for anything wild like having a pink house. Your HOA is sure to ask you to repaint if you go for a pink house. Go through your HOAs list of acceptable colors for house exterior and choose from them. If you want to go for something other than the colors on the preapproved list, then make sure after choosing your colors you go to the association to get the colors approved. Ask your contractor to get you paint samples or a fan deck for the submission process.

作者: 秋意浓 时间: 2012-10-14 20:04
长知识了..原来还有这个规定.
我觉得美国文化本来就满直接的..不是拐弯抹角的那种.
相信他们也是好意. 否则直接去上面说的HOA告你/或者不跟你讲拉...

作者: 匿名 时间: 2012-10-14 20:14

KT000000 发表于 2012-10-14 18:34
人家是善意的提醒。当然如果社区有规定的话，可能要换颜色，否则人家可以告你。 ...

我们不是社区，如果系社区我们也会注意。如果系好意的提醒我们会接受，但感觉就是他们就是觉得我们影响了他们的地位一样。我隔壁邻居也没有意见。

作者: 匿名 时间: 2012-10-14 20:15

秋意浓发表于 2012-10-14 19:04
长知识了..原来还有这个规定.
我觉得美国文化本来就满直接的..不是拐弯抹角的那种.
相信他们也是好意. 否则 ...

我们跟HOA是没有关系的。不属于那个范围。

作者: 匿名 时间: 2012-10-14 20:18

帝企鹅XEON 发表于 2012-10-14 17:07
1. 估计在你们没有完工之前，老外都不知道你们房子最终会是怎么样的。
2. 的确是存在这样的文化的。
3. 估 ...

外墙早就涂好了。说话有礼貌一点我们还会接受。说这样的话太伤人了。一点素质也没有。老外就是爱欺负中国人吧！

作者: ss-claire 时间: 2012-10-14 21:59
太敏感了吧，这也伤人。。。。

作者: 微博评论 时间: 2012-10-14 22:01
...可是挺好看的啊