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Shutters on windows and doors are important in Cambodian architecture. Clean buildings, not so much. The monsoon waters of the rainy season coupled with year round high humidity encourage lush growth in local vegetation, even when it is the lesser flora growing on buildings and walls. I suspect some of that coloring is thanks to the exhaust from cars and trucks too. The heat of the tropical sun does its share of damage too, so buildings painted in vivid colors soon fade to grungy pastels. I don’t know if the wood shutters over doors and windows get an extra coat of paint sooner than the rest of the building, but they often are the only bright splash of color left once the elements have had their way.
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I’ve always been curious why the French colonists in Indochina always painted their buildings that particular shade of yellow.
Dunno Paul, but that’s a good question. I have a few shots of an old crumbling building in Penang painted the same shade too. Maybe it was Queen Victoria’s favorite color. Or they were having a sale at Home Depot . . .