For some reason, many structures are in various stages of white – from pristine to drab grey. It is certainly not intended to be appealing, and yet these buildings conduct business. Perhaps the pale grey is to incite the sentiment of being formidable, but that is the most positive expression for grey. Dirty and polluted comes to mind much more easily, but still, if you threw a stone in any direction in Chicago, chances are you would hit a grey building.
But businesses are living organisms, and there are many colors to choose from. There are limits, of course, to the aesthetics of building colors, but there certainly are more viable alternatives to grey. The colors of the corporate logo, for example, can be used, very much the same way the COOP’s Paint corporate office in Dallas is painted. All you need is a little imagination and the right commercial painters for the job and you are good to go.
Institutional painting contractors can stick with the grey paint. Maybe the age of the building has something to do with it – modern architecture can afford to use colors that commercial painting contractors Chicago offers would otherwise not use for older buildings. It does not make much sense to paint in grey anyway, unless the expenses of maintaining and cleaning a building of a color other than grey is an important consideration. And colors other than grey for buildings will need a lot of cleaning, or else turn out worse than grey.
