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Colorful home can’t find a buyer

When Mary Rose Young attempted to sell her house in 2014, she could only get one person to view it — despite it being worth more than a quarter of a million dollars.

The reason? It’s covered in 30 years worth of rainbow-colored paint and decor.

The 61-year-old pink-haired artist purchased the dilapidated Lydney, England cottage in 1987 for just £30,000 (about $37,500). At first, it was painted white, but over the three decades of living in the quaint abode, she painted every wall, floor, and ceiling in shades of yellow, blue, pink, orange and every hue in between .…

“I did one wall orange with red dots, and it really stood out and took people’s minds off the fact there’s hardly any natural light,” Young tells LadBible. “It became a really fun project for me on the side of my pottery business, and I was so galvanized by it I ended up neglecting my pottery at times.”

But her vibrant vision was one not shared by many. When Young and her musician husband, Phil Butcher, wanted to sell the home, agents said they should be able to get at least £250,000 (about $315,000). Unfortunately, those agents could only find one potentially interested homebuyer. And even that sale didn’t pan out.…

Young has refused to paint the house in more neutral tones, and the family has been stuck in the unsellable house ever since.

“I made this house around my own life, and I wasn’t thinking about it being sellable,” says Young. “We’re living like two children in a doll’s house, and in retrospect, why would anybody else want to buy it? It’s like a playhouse for adults.” ….

“I love my house, and the house really works for me,” she says. “I’m a colorful person . . . I like it more and more as I get older.”

I’ll point out that despite the reporters’s assertion that the house is “worth more than a quarter of a million dollars”, a house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it and in this case, that’s nothing. But my sympathies are with the homeowner/artist; if she prefers her house the way it is she should keep it that way. tt’s fortunate, however, that she “likes it more and more as she gets older”, because this is a fine example of the concept of “aging in place”..

Time for a little morning eye-closer