How did you choose the exterior colors of your house?

Just curious—I don’t need advice.

If you’ve had your house painted, did you choose the color or colors
•  just by absolute color preference (you love blue, so you painted your house blue)?
•  to fit in with the neighbors?
•  from a restricted palette—not really a choice?
•  out of habit?
•  because they’re the colors you grew up with?
•  to blend into the landscape?
•  to be different?
•  to make a statement?
•  other?

Please don’t feel that you must answer if the question doesn’t apply to you; for example, if you live in an apartment, or your house is made of brick, there’s no need to respond. It’s a color-choice survey, not a housing survey.