Help finding a picture book.

[Three0fivepointfour]

It was a picture book, I think I had the paper back copy.

It was about a man who lived on a street of houses that all looked the same and were a bit sad and maybe grey. I think there was a picture of working men’s cottages.
The man paints his house a bright colour. Then all the neighbours paint their houses bright colours. Then everyone is happy! There might have been something about a rainbow in the book. There was a lot of shire on the cover.
I read it in the early 70s but I imagine it was second hand.
Thank you!

Oh! This rings a bell..this is going to annoy me until I find out now.

The Big Orange Splot?

OMG. While that isn’t the book the story is remarkably similar. Amazing.

The book I read had more realistic pictures. Not as cartoony or psychedelic.

I shall keep looking!

Mr Pine's Purple House?

Why thank you.

It seems like the story itself isn’t that unusual. That’s not it. Same era but mine was defiantly a house in England. Maybe rows of working men’s cottages in an English Town. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t in rhyme. The drawings were more realistic.