While my house is cinder block construction, it’s painted a lovely light yellow color, and has a more traditional roof on it. (It also has vermiculite insulation filling the blocks, plaster over drywall interior walls, and a list of other ‘quirks’ longer than my… well, it’s pretty long. 
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I’m all for buying older houses, but be warned that you may be buying a money sink, especially if the previous owners didn’t keep up on a bunch of stuff, or decided to be as cheap as humanly possible with maintaining things. (the window frames in the house are the original single pane, aluminum frame and leak energy and air like a sieve.)
