Posted on 05/01/2012 5:23:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Jim Deitz believes he’s creating a Grand Forks landmark, but the downtown apartment house he’s painting one polka dot at a time is making a city planner cringe.
The retired house painter on Tuesday was putting the final polka dots on his home-turned-apartments, where passers-by have been gathering to watch him work and to request colors from his palette of a dozen cans of brightly colored paint.
"Pizza delivery drivers won’t have any trouble finding this place," Deitz said of the century old-two story home that houses six apartments. "You can’t miss it."
The house is next to a church, a fraternal organization building and a new low-income apartment complex. Deitz and the city had negotiated a deal to buy out the property to expand the low-income housing facility.
Deitz said he was offered $100,000 for the home a year or so ago.
"They were going to buy me out and they backed out," Deitz said. "I want $150,000 for it now."
Ryan Brooks, the city’s senior planner, said the polka dot house is an eyesore and that he thinks it’s Deitz’s way of protesting the city’s decision not to buy the property.
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Of the two, my preference would be the polka dots.
I’m not much into “Yahrd Ahart” LOL!
Of the two, my preference would be the polka dots.
I’m not much into “Yahrd Ahart” LOL!
I’d polka with her any day.
I think it’s pretty cool also.....however, let’s say some flaming homosexuals next door painted their house using the gay rainbow motif.................huh??????
For every action..........
I guess that if I lived on acreage with neighbors far away, I’d paint my house any color I’d want to.....but, in a neighborhood, there are responsibilities and, well, long term gay repercussion’s. /sarc
LOL!
A wonderful neighborhood...Low income apartments and a house that looks like Chucko lives in it.
I'd paint the window frames all different colors too, to match the dots.
He's also absolutely right about one thing: the pizza delivery guy, and anyone else looking for the house, will have no trouble finding it.
As someone who has to look for homes in unfamiliar neighborhoods on a daily basis (no, I don't deliver pizzas) I see that as a very good thing. Do you have any idea how many houses in any given town can be described as "red brick with white trim" or "white with black trim?"
Whoops, Grand Forks, no Bismarck. North Dakota, nevertheless. Not a grand old historical home, let the guy paint it the way he wants!
So much time spent painting dots and then leaves the window trim bare wood?????? FAIL.
When I was kid, someone in the neighborhood painted his house black and then added polka dots.
I like it!
One of the reasons I don’t “own” property, is that it would seriously upset me if I bought a house, and then the neighborhood changed ...
If I ever win the Lotto, I will probably buy property, a minimum of 100 acres,fenced and heavily guarded.
And I will paint my house whatever color I want.
I don’t know the details of this situation, but it does look like a protest paint job.
As is the man’s right.
A neighborhood association (voluntary) pissed off a homeowner in my town who retaliated by painting his house a garish shade of purple with pink trim and also placed two old toilets in his front yard.
It stayed that way for years.
-PJ
I had no idea polka dots were “in” as house paint. Thanks for posting all these examples. Not going for it on our house, but I really have to applaud people’s creativity. We really do live in an interesting country.
s me of a comedy TV plot 50 years ago in which a homeowner paints his house an awful color and the city strikes back. The homeowner eventually wins, but then admits that he hates the color of his house.
It looks like an expression of property rights, so it looks perfect. No one can honestly whine against property rights during this needed residential real estate price decline of decades anyway. Get the foreclosures done, so we can start a sane economy before long. If you want money, make something useful.
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