AIBU to ask if I can report my neighbour's bright blue house?

I think you've got to the root of the problem here. Clearly she thinks she's naicer than him.

Same I love watching people argue about paint

Don’t get attached to views you don’t own! YABU

Ah, I get it. You think he's common, right?

Can you not just angle your patio furniture/chairs the other direction?

Consider painting your house bright orange so they compliment each other.

No! Hyacinth was funny and friendly. Also very neighbourly.

If you stand in your garden looking ahead, and slowly rotate, it will only be in your view for less than a quarter of the time, and no one goes outside to look up and sideways at the neighbours house! You normally spend time looking at your own plants, your kids, and if you're v lucky, a nice view of fields or something in some direction. This is not going to ruin your life, look at stuff you like looking at, and get on with life.

I used to love going through Bristol on the train, because there used to be a monkey swinging across the side of one of the houses on the approach to the station. I haven't been that way for a long time, doubt it's still there, but it brightened my journey up.

But I think you've got no choice. By all means speak to the council but unless it's listed or conservation they can have it as they please.

I mean if it had 'fuck off' in giant letters then maybe not but it's just a blue wall.

Are you Hyacinth Bucket?

@OttersOnAPlane Penelope Keith was a wonderful actress and she made Margo an iconic character - a byword for suburban snobbery. It’s hard to believe that these programmes were made around fifty years ago.

Surely it’s ok to feel a bit annoyed that my lovely garden will now not be such a sanctuary for me

There's really no reason it should destroy your enjoyment of your garden. Just ignore it, it'll stop being new eventually. Plant tall plants, create a new focus point, etc. This is very dramatic and hyacinth bucket I have to say!

With "He's a lout" and "This isn't Bristol", I'm surprised you can even see with given your head is so far up your bum!

I don’t think you can do anything about the paint, but I think if they have pebbledash you’re legally entitled to burn the house to the ground. IANAL.

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Lighten up! It's only a thread about colour on a wall!
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OP imagine if a random chapped your door to say they don’t like the colour of your car and that they find it offensive? That’s how daft your actions are if you don’t live in a conservation area imho.

Thought the wife’s response was quite witty all things considered and not sure what the conversation was needed for? Any compromise as you put it would have cost them time and money yet it appears their house so their business.

Can you not just turn your back to it? If you’re calling the husband the lout chances are they might have a cracking nickname for you too.

Articulacy is laughable to you. Being visually aware is sneered at here. Put on your thick skin and don’t look is all you have to offer. Very low grade response. I’m sorry you missed out on an arts education and have much in common with a lizard.

Aw, she died today. Lovely Penelope Keith RIP.

OP, within 6 months you'll have stopped noticing. I understand that you hate it but it's completely outrageous to knock on someone's door and tell them you hate their colour choice. You are extremely lucky she wasn't more rude.

I would suggest apologising, but seeing as you want them to pay half for a taller fence to satisfy your demands, that's never going to happen.

You are being bullying.

I wonder what actually happened. Did she have to repaint, in the end, I wonder.

I’ve just seen this. The husband has the audacity to be a “manual worker”” - aka workman - and live next door to you. I’ve realised that you can only be related to Margo Ledbetter.

Not a lot you can do about it OP. It is was it is. Only solution is accepting you can do nothing and move on with a bright blue house as part of your home life

I have to say, I really dont get the replies that are "don't look". Get that sort of response for how to deal naked neighbours to coping with work colleague on the desk opposite regulaly extracting and feasting on the contents of their nose.

It's not very practical advice. Well not until AI advances enough for people to select and delete items from their field of vision.

£500k gets you more or less nothing in London. It’s a very very very very cheap house for its locality.