Daily Telegraph [Australia]
15 March 2016
Azal Khan
Real Estate Reporter
[…] Locals have floated a number of theories on why
the owners initially decided to paint the entire home green.
It has long been alleged the house was painted green
following the death of the owners wife, whose favourite colour was green and
thus the entire house was painted that colour in her honour.
Another view is the owners went through a messy
divorce where the husband didn’t want the wife to have the proceeds of the
house sale, so he painted it green to depreciate the value.
Equally as creative is the rumour that the owner killed
his family in a car accident when driving under the influence. He then painted
the home green which symbolises forgiveness and in a gesture to embarrass
himself. […]