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

😆 Love that!

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

Me too
There should be some good ones 😂

I love the neighbour's response.

I can't believe you really don't understand how unreasonable you are.

Forgot to add the pic from @XenoBitch post.

@XenoBitch I quite like that. 😆

I wouldn't do it to my own home, but wouldn't care if someone else did who lived opposite me or next door!

Yeah it was really sad, especially because there were definitely other shades of blue around.
it hit the news because she had refused but then they had threatened to take her to court….

Me too! Having not yet RTFT i'm trying to bet in my head what scenarios will play out over the upcoming 13 pages!

Good afternoon, Hyacinth. I would not choose to paint my house bright blue but your neighbours obviously like it and it is not harming anyone else. I can understand that you don’t like it but there is nothing you can do about it. It will probably fade over time and you will get used to it. My parents once lived next door to neighbours who painted the outside of their house a yellow that was so bright it was almost luminous. It was visible from a very long way away and would have been hopeless if there had ever been an air raid. I think your neighbour’s response was perfect.

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Maybe the autonomy police?
The fun police?

It's their house OP. They can paint it any colour they want. I am baffled that you think you have a say in it, under what law, bylaw or rule could you possibly?

This is batshit crazy 😝 our neighbours house is a hideous pink but they love it. None of our business what colour they paint their house.

Every day I think I’ve heard it all when it comes to entitlement and ‘the world revolves around me’ batshittery and here comes Mumsnet to show me a whole new level.

Imagine oiks being able to afford a £500k house on your tasteful street in south London! Write to the mayor! The UN! Someone must protect the middle classes from people like this!

If I was your neighbour I’d add bunting, lanterns and windchimes. And ask my loutish manual labour husband with his dirty clothes to loan you a tool that would help you release your head from your arse. I imagine you might need a digger though.

Unbelievable. People paint their houses battleship grey, have brown pebble dashing and black window frames, yet the people introducing colour get penalised?
The world has gone mad.

Pretty sure I saw on the news about a lady painting her house brought blue and the council gave her so long to paint over it, from memory it wasn’t in a conservation area although it might have been.
She had been told it wasn’t in keeping with the other houses in the area, which seemed abit bonkers because there was a pub down the road a shade of blue as well…
Ive linked the article
www.itv.com/news/meridian/2026-05-06/82-year-old-woman-criticises-stressful-order-to-repaint-bright-blue-house

This is not Bristol

now I know this isn't real 😂

Perhaps grow some lovely shrubs with white and pink flowers and some flowers that would remind you of a Mediterranean garden
Against the blue they would look lovely. The more beautiful plants you can grow the less the blue colour will worry you. Best not to get into legal issues with a neighbour especially over something like this where you have little chance of suceeding and a big chance of ruining any relationship you have.

I think it sounds lovely. There are a couple of terraces near me where each house is painted a different colour. England is so dull.

Just sit with your back to it OP then you don't see it. Not difficult.

I'd pay to see that. 😂

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As soon as I saw the title my brain started singing.

That sounds amazing 😀

Why was it rude? Because she didn't bow down and agree to repaint her house to your liking?

If my neighbour did this I would paint my house buttercup yellow, that would look really good and I would hope my other neighbour would pick a good colour too. There are quite a few multicolor streets In Bristol imo it looks brilliant.

Do the family look like this?

https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-89d30dcb-5584-434b-b990-beb3ccc0dce4

That would certainly "misalign" my "visuals"!
😂😂😂

My bungalow is built with bricks like Lego, and they are fading now but coloured grey,😁 yellow, light green and brick red. This is probably outing but who cares.