The shirt is the one I wear each time we paint a side of the old barn on the family farm – the red barn. The one with paint so bright red that when it lands on my white shirt, I could be ...

The image of a quaint red barn against green ... they weren't painted at all. The early farmers that settled in New England didn't have much extra money to spend on paint, so most of their barns ...

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red ... The simple answer to why barns are painted red is because red paint is cheap. The cheapest paint there is, in fact.

According to the 1884 edition of Everybody’s Paint Book, by F.B. Gardner, Venetian red was “suitable for any common work, or for brickwork and outbuildings.” This red pigment penetrated well into ...