We are a peculiar folk.

We had extra paint from the last house and had to use it.

Ahyup we be like that k

You were studying the colors of people's garages? Not the foliage? Or were you just stuck in traffic, with nothing better to do? I'm puzzled--so where you live, you are judged if you do not match the color of your garage to the color of your house? That's weird. Bummer for you.

One of the beauties of NH is lack of cookie cutter suburbs for the most part. Little things like quirky home or garage colors is a plus in my book

The house and garage aren’t always on the same painting schedule.

I have never noticed this growing up, maybe it’s because a lot of garages were built after the main house and so the original paint wasn’t available so people decided to branch out?

I think that's actually a pretty common rule for a lot of HOAs.

I've always thought that it was because people were trying to make their garages look like barns and differentiate it from the rest of the house.

When 60-70 of our year is dull grey and brown we need a little color in our life!

Built at separate times and/or maintained differently than the house.

Being frugal yankees, if the paint store has something they are trying to get rid of, and the price reflects it. That's the paint going on the garage. Doesn't matter what color it is.

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Is it possible these “garages” were actually barns?

Way back when they would be built one then the other often followed by a connection between the two (or possibly additions to a house followed eventually by the barn). It breaks up the monotony of the main siding, sometimes saves money, and looks more quaint / historic / organically developed. It was also a trend in the 60s / 70s when a lot of housing stock was built to use different siding on the garage.

https://people.uwec.edu/ivogeler/w188/articles/NewEngland-connecting-barn.htm

Thank you

Thank you. I think I will take this as the official reasoning. 🧐😅

When you come home drunk you want to make sure you put the pick up in the garage not the living room. So you remember truck goes in red building I go in gray building.

Simple

Hahahahah

Because unlike the massholes and Connecticut folk who come to admire our garages we aren't loaded and spring for a deal regardless of the color. There are some good multi colored ones around if you know where to look

This OP dude probably saw a bunch or white house with red barns and was like wtf is up with these new hampshire hillbillies and their bad taste and no class.

Last year I finally drew the color of my main house and now my garage barn is the same color as the main house. At last!!!

Here for the ayupppp

Attitude?

Not in the every day burbs. There are no set rules, lol. People are just compulsive and don't want to stand out. Don't be weird!

OP is from Germany.

Seems like this sentiment disappeared with the 90s

LSD

Have you seen the cost to paint a house?

I'm fucking dead 😱😱😱 I love it

Gotta give OP some credit, at let they didn't think the tilted/sideways double hung witches windows seemed odd, just the paint job.

I see. I still feel sorry for the OP. Nowhere in the US are we required to paint our garages the same color as our houses. Except in the most highly controlled residence areas. But perhaps in Germany, people just feel better when the houses and garages match. Or that is a legal building requirement. I can understand that.

I've also explained to Europeans why it is that so many houses are seen floating away in floods and hurricanes in the US. They are surprised to discover that so many Americans live in trailers located on flood plains and next to rivers. Well, we do. We are a mysterious people.

Perfect!!!!

to confuse and disorient tourists lol

No, that would have been clear. We saw blue house - yellow garage, red house - purple garage, and almost every other color combination. We were just curious if there was a reasoning behind the combinations like on Svalbard.

Keeps the ice trolls away

Only idiots move into HOAs