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

Its a bloody awful shade of blue imo. But im not sure seeing a blue house when you're in your garden should be affecting your happiness like this. It's just a colour.

All depends on your council. As pp have said there have been cases where people have had to repaint exterior areas due to complaints. While it wouldn't bother me it obviously annoys you so give it a go!

I didn't see what was wrong with this stripey one!

if its their fence, ask politely if you could put up a trellis along the top - and grow a honeysuckle - grows a mile a minute . Or a couple of clematis , winter and summer flowering to you always have something that will break the colour up

Oh dear OP. It’s not nice living next to inconsiderate neighbours. I don’t blame you for not wanting to live near them. Perhaps you should put your house on the market and move far, far away.

There was a stripey house in Kensington where the owners were taken to court by the council, but I don't see anything wrong with a blue one.

https://www.bidwells.co.uk/projects/stripey-house-kensington/

This is batsh!t!! Make up a disability to guilt their neighbours into painting a different colour - totally normal and acceptable thing to do.

If her ND makes her colour sensitive to blue then she should probably avoid days with clear skies.

The "shutting door in face" yes, this is rude... but we've no idea how the conversation went, was OP rude? being aggressive? because I certainly would be OK with my neighbour shutting their door in my face if I went round ranting and raving about their poor taste.

It's only at the back.

Why would they pay to make their fence higher because you don’t like it lower?

Maybe they are sisters

I can't decide whether this is satire or not @Toveylove ? I'm leaning towards yes.

This is peak mumsnet. You're getting a smashing in the comments because while it's OK to be annoyed about anything, it's bonkers that you've let the back of someone else's house get to you this much. Also, that you'd have the audacity, the gumption, the gall to suggest that they go to the expense and effort to repaint it a shade that you approve of. It's their home!

My mate painted her garden walls a bright blue and it's a gorgeous space to relax in. Someone else here's already referenced the stunning garden in Marrakesh with the iconic blue walls. This is the colour I'm imagining: YesColours | Blog: How to: Majorelle Garden design with Electric Blue masonry paint

I'm honestly baffled that you'd let someone else's back wall impact this much on your own experience of your garden retreat. Plant some taller plants or trees, turn your chair around so you're facing the other direction.

Sure it will be a good sign post for directing visitors/ deliveroo s/ parcels
Look on the bright (mykonos blue) side

Pay for it to be heightened, only.

You have to admit it sounds a little bit entitled to want to compromise about paint colour. OPasked and has been told she's being u.
There are some odd neighbour issues on MN recently along with 'prancing in bikinis' and now this. [Shakes head] 😀

With respect, you need to get some real problems.

Then move.

She doesn't like your house colour either but is prepared to thole it. Ball is in your court now to ignore it or move house.

Shutting the door on you proves that they aren’t ok. Barely civil and tone deaf. So yes, I’d try to double the height of the fence with some trellis and grow honeysuckle or jasmine etc on it. Or get a trough the length of the fence and fill it with the kind of bamboo that grows incredibly tall, quite fast.

explain you are colour sensitive. In this zeitgeist you’ll have to frame it as ND disability you have to struggle with and guilt trip them into civility. Tell them intense colour gives you anxiety. Then they won’t feel entitled to shut the door in your face.

But, with the greatest of respect, you chose to knock on your neighbour’s door and complain about their taste in colour and expected them to do something about it. Beyond the fact that it’s not for you to decide how other people decorate their own homes or dictate the taste rules for the street; you are accusing them of being rude without at any point acknowledging that what you did was rude, tactless, pretty mean and incredibly inconsiderate and condescending. Beyond rubbishing their work and taste, and trying to dictate how they should live their lives, at no point have you mentioned (or presumably considered) the enormous cost and time it would take them to do it if they did follow your advice.

You’ve been extraordinarily rude to your neighbours and, even after many people on here have pointed this out, you remain determinedly obtuse about what you’ve done and instead are now complaining that you’ve come on an AIBU and are being told that you are.

Put up some trellis and grow something pretty to block out the view. And, next time you decide to share your opinion about something creative someone has done, pause and think, ‘might this offend them? Should I keep my opinions to myself?’

Yes, unpainted pebble dash is one of the most depressing things to look at. I'm thinking of the places you pass on the Heads of Valley road in South Wales. Worse in the rain too.

I painted my magnolia hallway yellow and ripped out the horrible grey kitchen and hideous grey kitchen island!

Twickenham. Barbie pink for years. Hilarious.

@Katey83 , you are the perfect candidate to move to the US and pick up a new and exciting career as an HOA president, where you can go around and tell people exactly how they keep their homes down to excruciating detail. That sounds right up your alley.

I can see the signs now.

Do you hate blue? So does Katey83! Vote Beige!

OP, it was barking to go round to someone else’s house and ask them to change it because it’s not to your taste. It’s even more barking to ask them to pay 50% of their cost of replacing their fence so you don’t have to look at it.