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"Mid pleasures and Palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!"
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Just the warm colour of brick.
Another survey I'm afraid. This time relating the colour of ones house to their income!
What possible use this can have is beyond me. But, rather than go round looking for houses of different colours, I just thought I'd let you see a few of my favourite buildings that I have photographed around Buckinghamshire.
The music for today would have obviously have been "Little Boxes" but I used that song only a few months ago.
Well it appears that:-
People with blue houses are more successful than those living in homes of any other colour, a survey found.
The average owner of a blue home earns £38,000 a year, and takes at least two holidays abroad. He or she will have achieved two significant promotions, and half describe themselves as a director or manager. Most have at least three people working below them, according to the survey for Sandtex paints, in which 3,000 homeowners took part.
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And a tall one.
The average “blue” homeowner is in a long-term relationship and has two children and four close friends. Fourteen per cent pay for a cook when entertaining, 11 per cent have a regular cleaner, and 8 per cent employ a nanny.
Owners of green houses are the worst off, the survey found, earning only £13,100 annually. They were found to be happy, however.
Victoria Jones, spokesperson for Sandtex, said: “This poll certainly demonstrates that people decorate their houses differently depending on how they are doing in their professional and personal life.”
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And a small one.
The study found that annual earnings by house colour were: blue, £38,000; red, £23,500; white, £23,400; magnolia, £23,100; beige, £20,800; orange, £20,000; purple, £19,600; grey, £19,000; yellow, £18,500; brown, £18,400; pink, £14,500; and green, £13,100
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And one nestling alongside Dorchester Abbey
And not in the slightest concerned about income or anything else.
And painted in perfect taste.
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Those are some beautiful houses.
ReplyDeleteI love cottages and you have chosen some particularly cute ones.
ReplyDeleteMy house/cottage (not sure which it is) used to be white then we painted it pink. Maybe I would get that much desired for pay rise if I reverted to white - or better still, turned blue.
I will read all posts in time but I don't have time today I'm afraid, except to mainly skim downn the pictures. I noted the cake trolley and the cat ones.
I like the last one at least it wouldn't have noise neighbours... lol
ReplyDeleteDespite living in a blue house, I certainly don't earn that much, nor take that many holidays here or abroad... still costa del'a'gate has much to offer most notably the cuisine.. xx
Is that actually the colour of masonry, or the front door? I think I read somewhere about how the colour of ones front door was meant to reveal how people perceived you...I can't remember seeing a blue house, but when I lived in Maidenhead we used to pass a gorgeous Edwardian house painted in a cool minty green. Not surprisingly, we referred to it as the "Minty house". It makes your house easier to find I suppose if it is an unusual colour.
ReplyDeleteMy first time here, thank you for a lovely visit I had a great afternoon. Peace for all
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked them Eliza. The first and the third were in Little Missenden and the tall was is in Thame.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to have you back Foody. Have a look back to catch up by all means, but don't feel you have comment.
I just know you went somewhere nice last week.....lots of pictures?
That's a good 'line' Sage I should have thought of that as a caption.
Have you got a new house lined up yet?......and I bet it's white. All houses in Cornwall seem to be white!
Hi Kath, Yes it's the colour of the masonry paint..Sandtex or whatever.
I have been meaning to ask you if that picture on the top of your blog is your cottage? If it is I'm all envy. It's Gorgeous!
Rural Rose, you are most welcome to drop in anytime. Fancy you spending all that time reading this trivia!
"Laugh & the World laughs with you" I always say.
Cheers......Bernard.
PS Don't tell me you breed Turkeys?
I already have a Goosebreeder drop in and Jan breeds chickens and doves.....and not forgetting a Singing Chicken!
I laughed out loud at that survey! Bonkers, absolutely bonkers. I did love those pretty cottages though, more than my current vulgar £23,500 per annum white hovel. Great writing in this blog; liked your wall linkings, nice thinkings!
ReplyDeletex x x Catherine
OOh I wish!! :D
ReplyDeleteI do live in an old cottage by a railway, but not as divine as that one!
Hello Catherine from Monks Risborough. Do you know, I was walking in the churchyard there only the other weekend. Perhaps you are lucky enough to live in one of those lovely cottages backing onto the church? I see one was up for sale recently. I'm glad you liked my bit on four walls, although, I think it could have been done better.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping in.
Cheers...Bernard.
Oh, sorry Kath. And I thought it was yours. You must live near Stoke Mandeville perhaps being by a railway?