Why are barns always red?

Answer 1

Red is one of the cheapest colors to make since ferric oxide (rust) is very common and very cheap. Paint helps protect wood from water and rotting, so farmers wanted to paint their barns. But to save cost, since barns are quite large and require a lot of paint, they used red paint.

Answer 2

IFerric oxide (rust), a primary component of red paint, is inexpensive it was a 2 part mix that was meant to preserver the wood not to be a certain code for color for barns. I think one of the mixtures was creosote . Thats what they used any way back in the good ole days. Having a red barn became a fashionable thing. They were a sharp contrast to the traditional white farmhouse.

Answer 3

They aren't- a barn near me is green with a dancing cow painted on the side!

Answer 4

I don't have an answer, but I'll rephrase the question...
Why are barns typically red or at least typically depicted as red?

Answer 5

it has something to do with being seen from far away...
since barns were used as advertisement like a giant billboard

Answer 6

I believe the red color has something to do with keeping cropdusters from crashing into them. But I could be wrong.

Answer 7

I think its just a tradition maybe because of avalibilty of that color as well as white back in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Answer 8

They usually are red because that way low flying planes could see them.

Answer 9

I've never seen a red barn.

They're usually wood coloured, or sometimes wattle and daub.

Answer 10

so the cows can find there way home