And if you go to San Antonio (I highly recommend it-- San Antonio is a neat city) you can see Sandra Cisneros's house-- it is purple! But the city really doesn't have the balls to tell her to re-paint it, even though it offended the historic King William neigborhood
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/1151/cisneros/houseguenther.htm

I think it is pretty (but what do I know-- I painted mine bright red), you can see a picture of it her's here
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/mcquien/htmlfils/cisneros.htm