If You’re Building An Apartment Block, Might As Well Make It Cheerful!

January 22, 2010 in Apartments,Art,Exteriors,Paint and painting with 4 Comments

A block of apartments in Chartres, France — a lovely, lovely place — might have looked like any other, were it not for four months of what must have been strenuous painting.

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Aren’t they fun? Various areas are done in differing styles so you get a little taste of everything. I sadly don’t know anything about these apartments other than their locale, but more pics can’t be seen here.

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4 Responses to “If You’re Building An Apartment Block, Might As Well Make It Cheerful!”

  1. Phyllis January 23, 2010 at 7:10 am #

    NTB do you rmember the three murals on Newbury St. in Boston? I lived in the building that had this one:

    http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2621463-Newbury_Street-Boston.jpg

    I think it may be gone though

  2. Never teh Bride January 25, 2010 at 10:11 am #

    I don’t know that I ever saw that in person, Phyllis, but The Beard remembers it. Nice spot you lived in ;-)

  3. Phyllis January 26, 2010 at 8:58 am #

    My apartment was the one on the second floor with the blue blinds (which I installed and they remained there for almost 10 years!) I lived there there in the 80′s; I couldn’t afford to live in Back Bay these days. Living on Newbury St. was rather like living in a mall to be honest. Hoards of people day and night.

  4. marvel January 28, 2010 at 3:58 pm #

    Out of my league when I was there in the 90s. Was it noisy? I would think it would be noisy.