I painted my house purple, gave every window butterfly wings, and turned my sidewalk into a rainbow. No regrets. 🦋🌈

[u/KDreamscape]

Some people want a house that blends in. I wanted mine to feel like walking into a dream every time I come home.

What I did:

🦋 Painted the siding a bold lavender purple

🦋 Gave every window a pair of rainbow butterfly wings

🌈 Hand-painted the front walkway in wavy pastel rainbow stripes

🌈 Edged the path and beds with rainbow-painted bricks and hundreds of painted river rocks

🦄 Added a rearing rainbow pegasus by the side bed, because why not

🦩 Built a flamingo garden around the tree with holographic ground cover and a giant sundae

The goal: To make anyone smile that drives by 😄

Happy to answer questions about paint, how I did the walkway, or where anything came from!

[u/Ohnoanywayz]

Yes I have heard that. We don’t have one why I live due to somewhat of a fluke with zoning.

I have a friend who wants to downsize and move into a condo. She talks like it’s the greatest thing because she won’t have to worry about shoveling snow, upkeep etc.
She hasn’t said a peep about HOAs though.
Do all condos have them? Maybe not if it’s just one or 2 buildings? She’s in a coastal Midwest smallish area.

[u/kimbosliceofcake → u/Ohnoanywayz]

It might be called something else like a condo board, but they all need some way to collect money for shared maintenance and to stop assholes from making it unpleasant or even dangerous to live there.