Colouring

Painting with red ochre became common in the 1700s, at which time log houses had no siding. However, there probably were not any red ochre houses in Raahe adjacent to the streets. When Alexander I, Czar of Russia, visited Raahe in 1819, the magistrate ordered all the houses of the town to be painted. The paint was presumably yellow and red ochre. During the beginning of the 1800s, when log houses started getting siding, light-coloured paints also came into use.

In a manner similar to that in which red ochre imitated brick surfacing, yellow ochre imitated sandstone. Different shades of yellow from ochre to light yellow wall paint became common. Light grey and light green were used in wall surfacing. For the entire period of the early 1800s mouldings, pilasters, corner pilasters, and often, the walls' upper parts, the frieze, were painted white. The most used wall colour was yellow. The general impression emanated by the town during the first half of the 1800s was one dominated by homes and shops painted yellow, with mouldings and window frames of white, and outbuildings of red ochre.

Towards the end of the 19th c. also buildings in the style of classicism were painted in combination of lighter colours for the walls and darker colours, for example brown, for the mouldings, door and window frames.

Mouldings of this period were painted with colours darker than the walls, and the facades were divided into sections with boards going into different directions. Different shades of brown were common on these buildings.

The stuccoed houses were given a light-coloured paint. In these the window and door frames were painted with a darker colour, brown or grey.

The ancillary buildings by the street were often given a siding only of the part facing the street, and only this section was painted in the same colour as the main building. Log surfaces were painted with red ochre.

Mouldings in Jugend style houses were usually painted with darker colours than those used on walls. Wholesome brown, grey and reddish shades were used.

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