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[–] Squids@sopuli.xyz 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Idk if this is true for the US but where I live in Scandinavia red is a common house colour because historically it was a cheap colour you could get from mixing red ochre and oil, so red barns aren't uncommon. Then again the US midwest does have a lot of Scandinavian immigrants so it might've bled over culturally because there's lot of farms up there?

[–] bayport@yall.theatl.social 4 points 1 year ago

That’s a pretty good hypothesis πŸ€”

Red is the traditional color of painted wooden structures pretty much everywhere, think of Chinese temples for example. Black tar is another common one. Cave paintings typically used red too.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure about the chemical properties but I was always told they were red because that was the first color paint to be mass produced cheap enough for farmers to be able to coat their barns in.