This is a typical old ( little ) farmhouse for this region . ( Zeeland- Holland )
The color of the barn is black for using tar in the past . To day this is forbidden but we still paint it black .
@nana2r I`ve to explain. There are two kinds of tar. Brown and black. The brown is made out of timber , that`ok. In English, German, and French, "tar" is a substance primarily derived from coal. It was formerly one of the products of gasworks. Tar made from coal or petroleum is considered toxic and carcinogenic because of its high benzene content Coal tar is listed at number 1999 in the United Nations list of dangerous goods.
