Why do East Slavs use (light) blue colour?

[Lemminkäinen]

Traditional Scandinavian houses are red, because red ochre paint was commonly availabe. Maybe East Slavs had more blue pigment.

[Arūnas]

Have you noted that East Slavs use (light) blue colour while that colour is harldy at all used by other people in Europe?

I find that colour horrible. Why is it used so much among East Slavs and and why so little among other Europeans?

I attach an example pic.

if only blue, it is not actually, this is terrible style:

[Peterski]

So this is the most East Slavic song ever?:

https://youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4

[Russki]

So this is the most East Slavic song ever?:

https://youtu.be/zA52uNzx7Y4

It's oddly satisfying somehow

[Roy]

Have you noted that East Slavs use (light) blue colour while that colour is harldy at all used by other people in Europe?

I find that colour horrible. Why is it used so much among East Slavs and and why so little among other Europeans?

I attach an example pic.

I rather prefer lighter shades of blue but this isn't too bad. But it is indeed interesting their penchant for it.

[Roy]

Maybe Operation Vistula descendants in Mielno (?):



^^^
Maybe when you enter the house, there is yellow colour.

Blue outside, yellow inside. Ukrainian flag!

Or someone is into smurfs!

[rothaer]

East Slav? or Komid? how would you classify the owner of that blue?

This could give rise to a new theory. May it be a Finnougric genetic contribution to Russians that cause such a taste? The Flag of Finland is conspcious in this aspect...

[rothaer]

Traditional Scandinavian houses are red, because red ochre paint was commonly availabe. (...).

No, "faluröd" is historically a forced thing by the state. It was a waste product from the state copper mines and there was issued the "tax" law that every peasant (or more people, I'm not sure) had to buy that colour (for a high price) and paint his houses with that. The bigger houses you had the more you had to buy and paint. And the administration could just walk around in the country and see if somewone did not pay his tax, by not having his houses painted that way.

[Insuperable]

I bet because of 9 months with gray weather, they use to colours their buildings in abominable tones

Scandinavians paint their houses too, I guess for the same reason, but they do it in various colors. Do East Slavs use exclusively blue color?

[Insuperable]

Traditional Scandinavian houses are red, because red ochre paint was commonly availabe. Maybe East Slavs had more blue pigment.

I saw Scandinavians use red, yellow, orange mostly, with some blue thrown in. But red mostly.