Seventeen miles north of Austin, a house decided to compete with the city’s local slogan: “Keep Austin Weird.”

In Pflugerville, Texas, a man may have ruffled a few feathers when he decided to paint his entire house a rather unusual color. If you drove through their neighborhood, you’d know the exact house we’re talking about because it tends to catch attention.

Everything in Emilio Rodriguez’s house is pink.

The roof tiles are pink. The walls, bricks, and pillars are pink. Even the gutters! Everything is pink. He even plans to put pink stone tiles on the driveway.

While he’s catching some side-eyes from his neighbors, there’s a big upside in keeping his home the way it is – he’s living his best life.

Emilio Rodriguez, who was left paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, says the color brings a strange comfort to him.

But many of his neighbors think otherwise. They said his house doesn’t fit well with the “mountain view” neighborhood and his house sticks out like a sore thumb.

They may get mad at him or they can file a lawsuit, but Rodriguez did his homework.

“No HOA. I pre-planned this specifically because of that reason, so when people get mad I explain there is no HOA here,” He told CBS Austin. “Even if they made an HOA right here I’m already grandfathered in so we’re set. I did my homework beforehand.”

After moving in from Creekside near Dessau, he planned the paint job in mid-January 2019. The plan was to splash everything in pink, except the kitchen cabinets.

Everyone in his family, including his girlfriend, advised against the color but Rodriguez was insistent about his decision because it was his favorite color.

He even showed the tattoos on his body which bore the same color as his house.

One of the neighbors said his house looked like Pepto-Bismol, a stomach medication known for its iconic color. For Rodriguez, though, it’s “pink slime”.

Whichever the shade is, some of his neighbors are telling him that he’s reducing the property value of their houses because of his color choice.

But not everyone is going against the look.

“Definitely it’s adding a twist to the neighborhood. There’s no other house like this,” Emmanuel Alvarado, a neighbor who lives a few blocks away shared with FOX7. “I would suggest to the neighbors to be open-minded. Because, you know, I think you should invest energy in to being unique. To being yourself and not let yourself be suppressed by society thinks is normal.”

For Rodriguez, it doesn’t just stop with the house thoguh. He shared with FOX 7 that he’s planning to put up pink spotlights for the trees, park a pink car in his garage, and maybe paint his wheelchair in pink as well.

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— ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) March 2, 2019

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say.

But we also have to remember that every man’s house is his castle.

Would we paint our houses entirely pink? Definitely not. But it’s his castle and we’re glad he can feel safe in it.

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