The Wonderfully Coloured Houses On Italy's Little Island Of Burano...

Forty minutes away from Italy's famous Venice is the wonderful old and colourful island of Burano.
The island which is home to a fishing village that dates back to the Roman times is not only famous for it's colourful houses but for its beautiful handmade lace.
The story goes that often when the fishermen returned to their homes they couldn't see them as a result of the heavy fog, so bright colours were introduced. Of course a specific colouring system developed and now if someone wants to paint their house, they need to send a request in to the government no less, to make sure their colour choice is permitted for that lot.
It's good to know that even in a simple little Italian fishing village, bureaucracy
is alive and well...

Living Life In A Gloriously Coloured World...

Colour me anything but please, please, please, colour me! Colour me fun!
What a drab, boring old world it would be
without colour.
What marvellous expressions of life and vitality these images show.
How wonderful that the town planners and city ordinances have allowed such 'in your face' creativity to exist in these urban surroundings.
Colour. It's a way of celebrating life!
From the top, there's homes in London, then Venice, then Portland Oregon, Ireland, Burano in Italy, Houston, Nicaragua, Buenos Aires and Tubinga Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany.
Let's put more colour in the world...

Colour Me Beautiful...

Don't you just love the Painted Ladies
of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury.
And what about these tiny fun and funky apartment pods in Tokyo...

Psychedelic Living...

Katwise is the amazing lady who's the owner of this property and obviously she has a wonderful sense of the outrageous. And good on her.
She's lucky there aren't any bylaws prohibiting individual creative statements like hers.
Then again perhaps there are and the lady's ignoring them.
A technicolor dream.
I'm sure the neighbours love it.
It's evidently somewhere near Woodstock.
I found Katwise's wonderful personal and creative statement on Deek Diedrickson's wonderful site here.
His is another great place to visit for some alternative and fun thinking on living in small spaces...