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

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Katey83 · 29/06/2026 13:43

I live in a terraced house. My neighbours have painted the back of their house bright blue (think swimming pool blue / like the Mikanos blue). It is horrible and looms over my garden. It’s really going to spoil my enjoyment of my space to have to look at this every day. I spoke to the wife earlier this morning and said it was not to my taste and would they consider changing and she said ‘the beige of your house isn’t to my taste but it’s your house. This is my house.’ And shut the door in my face. WIBU to report them to the council? Can I even do so? Surely you can’t just paint any offensive colour and expect neighbours to live alongside it?

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Babyboomtastic · 29/06/2026 15:37

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:15

I hoped that we could come to a compromise. It seems I’m unanimously in the wrong - I prefer to air these things and try to talk it to a resolution than letting resentment fester.

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Ooh a compromise could.have been great. What about this

AIBU to ask if I can report my neighbour's bright blue house?
MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:37

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 15:35

The husband did it. I do admit that the job has been well done (in that it is neat and tidy), albeit I can't stand the colour. He does seem to do a manual job for a living (has a van, always dirty/ covered in cement etc).

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I wonder why he's not done the front as well? Perhaps he'll do that another colour.

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Katey83 · 29/06/2026 15:35

viques · 29/06/2026 15:30

Your lucky neighbours. I have been trying to find someone to paint the outside of my house for several months and haven’t found anyone who appears both trustworthy or sober enough to climb a ladder.

The husband did it. I do admit that the job has been well done (in that it is neat and tidy), albeit I can't stand the colour. He does seem to do a manual job for a living (has a van, always dirty/ covered in cement etc).

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BlueFahrenheit · 29/06/2026 15:35

I would not have responded and closed the door in your face, OP.

Avert your gaze.
Wear sunglasses.

MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:34

callmeLoretta1 · 29/06/2026 15:33

It's beautiful! Better than ugly eyesore beige! I am not in the UK and am always shocked at how ugly and filthy dirty-looking the brown houses and buildings look like in the UK and in London especially and have always wondered why people over there don't use paint. Good on them! Hopefully it will drag London out of the 1800s and more people will use colour and get rid of that filthy beige looking depressing colour.

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Yes, it would be great! 😃

Muchtoomuchtodo · 29/06/2026 15:34

You just have to admit that their taste is different to yours. Nobody is wrong here.

why don’t you plant a row of pleached trees close to your boundary to obstruct your view of it a bit. This would obviously be at your expense as it would be your choice.

or move.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 29/06/2026 15:34

I love coloured houses. There’s a house I have driven past a few times about 20 minutes drive away that has an English flag and roses painted on it. Not so keen on that!

justasking111 · 29/06/2026 15:33

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 13:59

I don’t understand this

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What's the story in Balamory 😁

callmeLoretta1 · 29/06/2026 15:33

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 13:56

I would say this is the colour though their window sills and edgings are in white.

www.designboom.com/architecture/blue-house-yard-workspaces-london-05-22-2017/

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It's beautiful! Better than ugly eyesore beige! I am not in the UK and am always shocked at how ugly and filthy dirty-looking the brown houses and buildings look like in the UK and in London especially and have always wondered why people over there don't use paint. Good on them! Hopefully it will drag London out of the 1800s and more people will use colour and get rid of that filthy beige looking depressing colour.

aliceyyyy2654 · 29/06/2026 15:32

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:05

I found it quite rude!

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But it’s not rude for you to insult her house colour of choice and then think you are so mighty important that you should be allowed to dictate what colour people paint their own homes?
You are ridiculous and insane to even think so. You sound entitled and delusional.

ShutupLwren · 29/06/2026 15:31

Id love to live somewhere with vibrant houses, like Brighton or Beaumaris, near the coast.

I love the blue of Greek homes, it’s lovely. Maybe you can all follow suit and repaint your homes similarly in bright colours? Start some vibrancy in the area. I recently had a discussion with a bloke about colourful homes and he said he hated anything like that. Imagine hating colour, people never fail to amaze me.

viques · 29/06/2026 15:30

Your lucky neighbours. I have been trying to find someone to paint the outside of my house for several months and haven’t found anyone who appears both trustworthy or sober enough to climb a ladder.

Notellinganyone · 29/06/2026 15:29

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:05

I found it quite rude!

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It’s pretty rude to challenge what she chooses to do with her house so I think it was a warranted response. My neighbour has gravelled his entire garden with shiny white gravel. It’s hideous but it’s his garden.

Teenytinydot · 29/06/2026 15:28

Has anyone done the blue house song joke yet?

Spangers · 29/06/2026 15:27

I misread the title as Bright Blue Horse and was expecting something entirely different…

I can’t believe you genuinely asked your neighbour to change their house because it’s not to your taste!

Friendlygingercat · 29/06/2026 15:25

If you walk about 10 minutes from where I leave (leafy suburb) you come to an enclave of flat fronted terraces in a very diverse area. Many of the houses are painted in bright colours and odd combinations. They are not to my taste but presumably they delight the current owners and are not doing any harm. 'I'm sure the council is well aware of them as they are something of a local landmark.

fivepastmidnight · 29/06/2026 15:25

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:05

I found it quite rude!

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You were rude suggesting she changes something just because you don't like it she was a lot more polite than I would have been.

Namechangeforthisdilemma1 · 29/06/2026 15:22

Bjorkdidit · 29/06/2026 14:31

But surely unless you spend a lot of time staring at the wall, it's not an issue?

Anyway, blue is known to be a calming colour, so perhaps you should do just that?

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Why does it upset you so much? Sorry didn’t mean to quote this post!

MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:18

Toveylove · 29/06/2026 15:17

Never mind, aye. Plenty of people have your level of awareness, you’re not alone.

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Thank goodness 😂 😂 🙏
♥️ 💙 💚 🧡

MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:17

Toveylove · 29/06/2026 15:15

Exactly!

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The home to cheerful people? People who are "visually obtuse"?!

Toveylove · 29/06/2026 15:17

MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:15

I was laughing at "visually obtuse"!.😂

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Never mind, aye. Plenty of people have your level of awareness, you’re not alone.

Dweetfidilove · 29/06/2026 15:16

harriethoyle · 29/06/2026 14:59

Good on your neighbour! She sounds fab. Reminds me of a long ago neighbour who said I should have asked her before putting a 6 foot tall fence up on my side of our garden divide. She wanted 4 foot (she was a nosy beast). She was nonplussed and unable to answer when I asked her why she thought SHE should have casting vote on MY garden choices...

She's dead now. Unrelated, of course.

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Unrelated, you say 🕵🏾‍♀️?

Folks sometimes need to put in their place 😂😂😂.

Toveylove · 29/06/2026 15:15

Frequency · 29/06/2026 15:14

What the floof does Bristol have to do with any of this?

Exactly!

MonstrousRegimentRocks · 29/06/2026 15:15

ChequerToRed · 29/06/2026 15:08

‘Visual misalignment’!?

Oh, stop it! 🤣

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I was laughing at "visually obtuse"!.😂