Thursday, October 12, 2017

Not Painting The Fence

And FINALLY, I get around to explaining why I don't want the neighbor to paint my fence on hos side...

I have a personal image of my property.  Let's start by imagining I only lived inside my house.  I don't see the outside of it.  But my neighbors do.  They may or may not like the color of my house, but they agree it is mine and all the sides of my house match in color.  As it occurs, my house siding is dark green and fits into the landscape.  There is no Homeowner Association here to complain, but it is not like I painted it hot pink and added lime green shutters.

So the neighbor can't decide he thinks the side of my house that he sees should be painted beige and could just go ahead and do that while I was on vacation.  I care about my house looking rather consistent in color all the way around.  OK so far?

Now, I think of my fence in the same way.  The entire fence is on my property and and I want it to look the same all the way around.  It, in its own way, partly defining my choice of how my property is viewed by outsides just as my house is.

Having the neighbors view my fence in a consistent color makes a difference to me.  One side being one bold different color from the others just destroys my vision of my yard. 

I understand that my neighbor has a view of his internal yard.  But he should have thought to ask who owned the fences around him before he just had people paint them.  I am probably the only person who knows that all the fences around this new neighbor's property are owned by others.  The only fence he owns is those small parts from the sides of his house connecting to the sides.

And I may be the only person who cares.  But I do care.  I specifically like the look of greyish aged pressure-treated wood.  And I don't want people looking at my property from the outside seeing it of different colors.

I hope that all made sense...

3 comments:

Megan said...

Yes, that makes sense. It just seems odd to me that homeowners in your community have a sense of who owns a fence, given the notes we've exchanged about what happens in my community - where fences between properties are jointly owned and decisions about them need to be jointly made.

I guess, of course, that the new neighbour could erect a new fence on the boundary line and then paint it as he likes, couldn't he? 'Twould make it impossible for you to go around to the other side of fence to do any maintenance.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he turns out to be an interesting chap and a good neighbour!

Megan
Sydney, Australia

pilch92 said...

Makes sense to me.

Katie Isabella said...

It certainly does. It would torque my jaw a LOT of someone dared to paint MY fence.

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