AIBU to think teal is an awful choice for interiors?

@Icanseeasquirrel , it's still popular. My street has several house rendered and painted grey, and the interiors are probably monochrome. White shutters are popular.

You walk past the grey houses. The sky is grey, the ground is grey, the cars are black, white or grey. The people wear black or grey...

Another yellow, orange and gold lover here. I had to SUFFER for 20-30 years until grey worked its way out of ubiquity. Still so much of it around. The colour of misery and wet concrete and drizzle and despair.
Teal is fine but that room looks awful.

big house accent wall but all over nope
btw like it as a clothes colour maybe just again a top or skirt/trousers not all over

I absolutely love teal!

Teal can look great. I didn’t like it in Sophie’s design although I loved the leopard print, although I also didn’t like Lia’s darker greens and thought her wall papered ceiling was awful.

You'd hate our living room. Although it's more of a bright turquoise than a dark teal.

Everyone has their likes and dislikes.

My least favourite look is the shades of grey and white look- always winter and never Christmas as my husband calls it- closely followed by the sad beige look. I like colours.

It gives me the shudders as an accent colour. One wall, or cushions, against a light background. work of the devil surely. very suburban Britain early 00s.
I agree, teal walls in a period home with traditional features can work but struggle to like it otherwise.

I love teal

I love the colour teal but cannot bear any room painted in a strong colour. I have my kitchen painted in a very very light shade of teal - ie pale duck egg, and I love it.

the only pale colour I don’t like is yellow- sorry second poster! My entire house was painted in yellow when I bought it, including the outside, radiators, skirting boards and staircase - I’ve spent many years de-yellowing it.

I love teal and my living room is teal. it isn;t dark at all. The room is South facing and it is lovely. ONe wall (facing the window) is a darker colour called French turquoise and the other walls are morris blue (which is more green than blue)

The colour scheme is always complimented.

Same here, we have teal curtains in our living room, against pale walls.

Teal and mustard would make my heart sink.

The images in the article Iinked are definitely not to my taste.

I love teal. We did our bedroom in it and I think it’s gorgeous.

I have a dark teal downstairs bathroom with white tiles on the bottom half. Looks great in there especially with bright pink orchids on the shelf. But I agree that in a main room it would be overbearing.

I quite like teal in the right room. I wasn't sure about it on Sophie's interior design but that was overshadowed by my dislike of the animal print ceiling. Hideous!

I have a darker, bluer version of teal on my living room wall BUT it’s a south facing room with a huge bay window. I have high ceilings with a deep picture rail and high skirting boards all painted white, pale pine floorboards, and lots of bright art on the wall - so the room is very bright in spite of the dark walls. The sofas and curtains are red and the rug is a red/blue/cream Persian type rug. The furniture is all vintage mid century teak (Ercol/Nathan). I suspect it’s a love it or hate it room - luckily we love it 😍

On the other hand I hate the colour olive. I don’t know why. I just think it’s so ugly, but my daughter absolutely loves it!

It looks better in that photo than it did on screen to be fair! Looked much brighter and shinier than that on TV.

I love teal in all variants but that was more like turquoise. The ‘burgundy’ ceiling also looked really bright - they often seem to have issues with the paint colours on that show ending up way off what they expected. You’d think they’d allow testers or at least have someone colour match the paint from the designer’s vision board to avoid all those garish colours. The leopard print ceiling was hideous but they knew what they were getting if they kept the queen of animal print in for the final at a safari park! The snake and insect wallpaper was fun but I would not be able to sleep in there! But then Lia’s hallways were so dull, it’s a shame as the rooms were lovely.

Sorry 😔 I should have been more diplomatic because you’re absolutely right that everyone has different tastes and likes different things.

Yeah this is how we've managed to pull off teal walls - would not do it in a 1980s semi, but this house is Victorian and the ceiling heights are amazing and it really works against the cornicing and wood panelling we've got in places.

You don't go far wrong with interior design if you pick according to the place you're working with rather than riding fads is my view.

For anyone who didn't see it:

Lia Gold Wins BBC's Interior Design Masters With A Bold, Botanical Holiday Cottage Makeover

I love it - one of my fave colours but you need to have the right house to really pull it off. In my old house we had one wall strong teal in our bedroom, but didn't have the room sizes, ceiling heights and light levels to pull off more than that without it being oppressive.

This house has humongous ceiling heights (stops DH being a smug git who used to delight in painting ceilings without needing to get a stepladder out), big rooms and loads of natural light - my bedroom is teal, my office is teal (because we over-bought bedroom paint basically) and I love it.

We've got strong colours throughout the house though - because I finally have room sizes I can get away with doing that - and I couldn't live with the previous owner's Judgemental Owl wallpaper any longer.

teal is a beautiful colour like a peacock

I think that Sophie's teal + animal print ceiling was just too much! The teal was nice, it just would have worked better in a smaller, lighter space.

I thought Lia’s living room actually had terrible colours and just didn’t work at all. The blue of her sofas really didn’t work, and the whole room was a mess. The dining room and bedrooms were great, though, and I guess that swung it for her, but I would have picked Sophie.