In our town, a homeowner once painted their house (a beautiful older house in the "old town" area) purple - lovely shades of purple for house and trim. This house became famous.  It was on the Garden Tour every year; everyone loved it.  Turned out to be quite the draw for clients of the couple who lived in it - everyone knew "the purple house".

My thought, the first time I saw it, before I knew all this, was, "I'll bet someone lives in that house that always wanted a purple house, and now they have one.  Good for them!" Evidently the community - or most of it, anyway - agreed. 

After all, it's paint.  If the next owner doesn't like purple, they can always paint it (though I suspect the community will be bereft if they do). 

Well, question is, when and if they decide to sell, will they repaint the doors something bland?  That's always a possibility, and while they're living in it, they can enjoy it! 

I once saw a brilliant agent advertising a house with colorful interior walls.  She advertised it as "already has designer colors".  Given that people were buying new houses based on the colorful walls in the models, but buying them with white walls, a lot of agents were thinking that resales had to have the same white walls as the new houses they were in competition with.  Being new to real estate, and still in the "Why?" (think four year old voice) stage, I asked a few more questions (because why would the new home models have colorful walls if people wanted neutrals), and discovered that the buyers of new homes were buying new houses with white walls and then painting them the same colors as the models afterwards, because while they could buy them with the colorful walls, they'd pay a hefty premium.  So they did it themselves, and saved a pretty penny. 

Thus leading to the impresison that what buyers wanted was neutrals when that wasn't the case at all. 

I remember many years ago (about 30) going to New Mexico.  We flew into Albuquerque and drove up to Santa Fe.  Santa Fe had a very strict code - your buildings (even McDonald's and Xerox) had to be adobe, or at least appear to be, and had to be one of five approved shades, if I'm remembering correctly.  I remember thinking, after a while (and we were only there for a couple of days), that I was going to die of boredom if I didn't see something different. Albuquerque, on the other hand, had neighborhoods that were made up of houses that were the same adobe - but they were painted in beautiful colors, deep pastels, adobe pink, blues, greens, yellows.  It was wonderfully refreshing. 

I'm sure there are peple that love your town with its restrictions , Randy.  I'd be absolutely miserable - I like more variety and eclecticism in my life.  Good thing I live in Austin, where the motto is "Keep Austin weird" (a librarian came up with that one, by the way, though he rarely gets the credit now that the phrase has been commercialized).  I absolutely could not live with the "taste police".