I am so sorry to hear about your dad. And I totally understand how you’d increase your precautions after that.
I’ve been working from home since mid March and have been able to spend much more time with my grandkids (they remote school from my house) and have the opportunity to know our house cleaners and gardeners also. We’ve had the same house cleaner for over 20 years and same gardener for 13. These folks get to see parts of our lives that no one else sees. Not once in all of those years have any of them raised their rates…in all those years!
Back to the colors: if there are already homes in your HOA painted the colors that you selected (and are on the approved list!), I would think there is no way they could dis-approve. How could they stop you from doing what your neighbor is already doing? That would be clear discrimination.
