Gothichome wrote:Mick, this may be a silly question but why red only on the back side of a home of your period?
A bit of yanks thrift maybe, red paint was the cheap paint back then, all the money was spent on good (expensive) paint for the front for all passers by to see?
Hey GH, your speculation seems to be the common wisdom on it, though I have a suspicion that it might have had more to do with it being the "business end" of a property, where red paint was more of a practical choice for being hard wearing and not showing dirt or scrapes as much. this could certainly have been a driver to use it, as commonly is, on hard working farm barns.