Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1878 — Color of Farm Buildings. [ARTICLE]

Color of Farm Buildings.

Inpainting even a shed it is just as cheap and easy to give it a - pleasing color, as to make it a blemish on the landscape. Barns and other farm huildings, painted red—especially the dark Venetian red—offer a fine contrast to the green of the field and trees, aha we are pleased to note that the use of this color is inereasing. The numerous red buildings of English farms are very attractive to the traveler’s eye; and they are not only handsome in appearance, but also give an air of thrilt and permanency to a place, which unEainted wood, or white or straw color, o not impart. We have one set of farm buildings in mind, in which the brackets anti other trimmings are finished oft in black, with a most satisfactory effect. The black thus used, gives a distinctness and boldness to the details, and forms with the red walls a happy combination, and one most appropriate jn its place. Red barns and outbuilding are not igire; these, when of a glaring, self-asserting red, are not pleasing, and they are still less so, when they are, as we often see them, trimmed with white. It is a rule pf good taste in painting buildings, to have window-caps, brackets and other details, darker than the grouna work or main body of the material. Why not apply the same principle to farm buildings, especially as it costs no more, and adds to tne attractiveness and value, of the structure? For example, a brick house, with a white marble doorway, widow-seats and caps, and a white cornice, will always look frivolous and cheap; where the same details are of the much cheaper brown-storte, the house has an air of dignity and repose, quite -lacking in the other. Other farm buildings are often quite as conspicuous as the dwelling, and in decorating them, quite as much thought should be given to having them pleasing to the eye, especially as it need not require an extra outlay,—American Agriculturist.