Odd siding choice

Most home exteriors are relatively uniform. Vinyl siding, aluminum, brick, T111, etc. Sometimes a combination of vinyl and brick looks nice, provided that the colors match.

I have driven past this house regularly for almost seven years. It's less than five miles from where I live and it caught my attention almost immediately. First of all, it's not terribly often that you still see homes that have been sided with what is essentially roofing material (besides, I have heard that it's carcinogenic). But why the various colors? And why three different colors? I guess it's possible that the owner was going for maybe an Irish or an Italian flag theme.

Even stranger is that the right hand side of the house (not visible from picture) is wood siding with a bluish tint. In all, that's four different colors and two different siding styles.

And even stranger than that is the fact that this has bothered me enough that I drove by early this morning, turned my car around and snapped that picture while driving by a second time. Why do I care? Why have I been planning for 5 days to tell you all about this house with strange siding? Why doesn't this blog focus on things like Hurricane Katrina (click here and read comment number 8) and other topics of national importance?

Thankfully, tomorrow I will be posting "Reader Profiles." I'm sure at least that post will be serious (eh hem).

Schedule note: Stop by again tomorrow for the Thursday segment, "Reader Profiles." There's still time to have yours included. Just e-mail jnstange@gmail.com with a picture and a brief paragraph to be featured.