What are Greek houses painted with?

People used a cleaning agent called loulaki (blue-coloured powder) to prepare the blue colour, which was easily available in every house. They would mix the powder with the limestone plaster and paint the house. Blue and white colours became permanent when a military government came in power in the year 1967.



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During the colonel's dictatorship from 1967 to 1974, the junta established by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos and Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos mandated blue and white as standard colors for Cycladic homes. This was an attempt to boost patriotism and reflected Greek national pride.

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Many visitors in Greece might have seen the white paint around the tree trunks. In the past when people didn't have all these agricultural concoctions to protect the trees from insects and bugs, they used a mix of slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), chalk (whiting) and water lime mixed with water as insect repellent.

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The traditional two-story dwelling is an ingenious construction, striking the perfect balance between form and function. The towns of Nisyros typify Greek Aegean settlements, with houses clustered close to each other for shade and protection from the strong Aegean winds.

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It mainly had to do with construction reasons. Domes in general are one of the first structural forms humans worked with in stone architecture. Spherical domes are used in Greece from appx. 5,800 BC.

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In response to a 1938 cholera outbreak, the government ordered citizens to whitewash their homes in order to slow the spread of the disease. At the time, disinfectant cleaning products were not widely available in the islands, but they had plenty of whitewash.

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The second story tells that some superstitious people believe that restless souls do not want to fly to heaven but seek to penetrate the earth into houses. That is why Santorini blue roofs are designed to disorient evil spirits, let them think that this is the sky, get confused, and fly away.

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