Growing up, I lived next door to a house in that colour for 15 years with absolutely no issues. The ever-complaining neighbour on the opposite side, however, caused all manner of extra stress and work.

As an added bonus, the complainer’s ground-level open-air compost heap attracted a wide variety of interesting wildlife to the neighbourhood. Neither raccoons nor South American coati are native to Norway, but they somehow still managed to show up in our garden, headed for the compost.