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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2839172, member: 19463&quot;]My college professor who taught Greek and Classical lit had his home interior painted in bright basic colors rather like the White House red room and green room.&nbsp; We thought he was strange but he was just a fan of the culture he studied.&nbsp; It is very much what we are used to.&nbsp; More recently there have been people restoring Victorian houses to their original colors rather than the all white of the 1930&#039;s that I grew up thinking appropriate for old houses.&nbsp; Generally we find people get in their head what something should be and don&#039;t want to hear differently.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care if my coins once sparkled like the sun.&nbsp; I prefer tone and patina that make them look old.&nbsp; In general the painted statue restorations I have seen look like they were done by someone who never before had touched a paintbrush.&nbsp; I prefer to think that the painter entrusted with coloring the emperor&#039;s statue was a bit more skilled than someone today with Photoshop and no great skills even at that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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