But Mr. Sedovic, who has seen the original Delano & Aldrich drawing, which appears to show a white wash, is alert to the possibility that testing may present him with two restoration possibilities: a lighter-colored, painted facade of the 1910's, or a true brownstone facade of the 1850's.
"Let's just hope they don't start painting everything up," he says, narrowing his eyes fiercely at the freshly painted facade of a cave house that is just a whisper the green side of cement gray.
The finest Macedonian tombs of the period displayed a painted architectural facade below ground, leading to a painted and elaborately furnished vaulted underground chamber.
She has some songs, some videos, some live performances and some interviews, ranging from daffy to difficult to dull, which haven't helped the case that behind this painted facade ticks a real heart.
The architecture of the temple resembling that of a Buddhist vihara (temple) and the brightly painted facade which is atypical of Buddhist temples leads to the argument.
In a 17th-century former boulangerie, with a painted glass facade, the hotel is so bijou you can hardly believe it has 17 bedrooms.
Finally, one of the carpenters used a screw gun to attach a flagpole to the roof and secure the pediment to the freshly painted facade.
Three nearby towns particularly rich in houses with painted facades are Nervi, Camogli and Santa Margherita Ligure.
But downtown, at the abandoned Palace Theater spruced up with the painted facades, the letters being put up by workers announced, "Jackson Five Tonight".
"The painted facades of modern Liguria remind me that their roots indeed are in northern Italy, as far back as the Renaissance," he told me.
FlixBus vehicles have other touches beyond its brightly painted facades aimed at attracting customers.
