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

When I buy my own, I’m painting it pink.

They've only painted the back of the house, I can't see the problem.

Some years ago my DH painted our huge gates a deep blue, they looked fantastic but our next door neighbours made no bones about telling him they really didn’t like the colour. Roll on a few years gates are still blue and I wait for them go on holiday before I go and touch up the blue paint 😂

I'd love a house that colour, it would really lift my spirits! I can't imagine the neighbours would be too keen unfortunately.

This is a joke question yes ? 😂😂😂
honestly

In this case it means that I was wondering if it was the neighbour who had someone knocking on their door complaining about the colur that they painted their back wall. In other words they are posting from the other party.

It means that the poster is actually the other person, in this case the owner of the blue house. I don't think it's a reverse. I think it really is this neighbour.

I think it looks better if all the houses in a row are painted different colours like in Tobermory.
i lived in a small coastal town for a while and quite a few of the homes on the seafront or by the harbour were colours like ochre , dark red , pale blue and dark blue .
I felt it looked lovely .
However I don’t think a lilac or a Barbie pink house would have looked right 🤔

I love it , that is the colour of my house with white sills, door surround and door and drainpipes ect.

Of course you are being unreasonable

With white sills I think that would look lovely @Katey83.

Who painted your house beige and did you check that with your neighbours at the time?

I love colourful houses, we need our house painted on the outside its cream/mossy/cracked

It needs fixing and painting. I would love to go for a bright colour, how lovely.

YANBU to ask if you can reported because you are annoyed at the blue shade and you don't know the legal stuff about facades. You are unreasonable thinking they own you a conversation, there is a middle ground to find, you have something to say about their walls colour and to patronize them because they work in trading or building, like to use their garden, have a beer etc etc.

Absolutely amazing that people like OP exist out there!

Hi I keep seeing is this a reverse. What does this mean please? Thank you

Oooh, I remember this story well, because we had a yellow car at the time! 😆

I'm sure, even in 2017, photoshop allowed people to remove objects from their pictures. I remember (around 2012) my friend's daughter having a group of 6 friends - including her, and she had a photograph of them altogether standing by a ride at Alton Towers. Anyway, she fell out with one of them who was third in the row of 6 girls, and she said wished she wasn't in the photo. So I airbrushed her out for her. Looked like she was never there!

So even in 2017, it would have been easy to remove the car. Or crop it even! Anyway, here's the original yellow Corsa pic, the pic with the car cropped off, and the pic with the car airbrushed out. Yet, people were acting like the car had wrecked their picture! 🙄 It's soooo easy to sort out (and has been for about 15-18 years!)

You would hate where I live in Scotland - painting houses in vibrant colours, seems to be a national past time. It seems especially popular to paint individual terrace houses, fun colours.
I personally love a colourful house. Cheers me right up😍.
I regularly see sunshine yellow, mint green, forest green, various blues,(including the shade your neighbour has), pink, orange, lilac, and I've even seen a couple of dark purple houses.
Whatever you do, never visit La Boca in Buenos Aires. Now those are some vibrant houses!
If you're really upset by the blue house, you could take drastic action, and try to emigrate to the USA. Once there, make sure you buy somewhere with a strict Homeowners Association. Then you won't have to worry about anyone's individuality seeping through into their garden or house presentation😁 there, you could just report the blue house to the HMO, and no more blue house.

Is that you Margot?!

I nearly bought a disgusting blue fronted house, I was unfortunately gazumped!

Shame you don't like it but it is their house.

Pay for the fence!

The article says it is in a conservation area where permitted development rights for aspects of a house facing the highway have been removed, so changing your house's colour at the front requires planning permission.

If the woman in that article wasn't in a conservation area or had just painted the back of her house, she wouldn't have breached the rules.

Surely this cannot be for real? 🤔

Out of interest, what kind of ‘compromise’ were you expecting to come to? They like it blue, you don’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

I understand your frustration. It would piss me off too.

One of the neighbours on our street started painting their fence dark grey (a horrible colour), but they only did half of it. It's been a year, and they still haven't finished. Looks horrible and it makes me angry every time when I walk pass.

I think the issue with these things is that they can also bring down the value of your house. I wouldn't buy a house if I had to look at an ugly baby blue wall or half done, ugly fence from my garden.

I know a lot of people don't care what their neighbours' houses look like, but I hate it when they leave rubbish around or paint things really ugly colours. You have the right to hate it; but I don't think you can do anything about it.

You thought there would be a law stating you can't paint the house you own whatever colour you fancy? Unless as others have said the building is listed etc of course you can paint it whatever colour you fancy! If a colour is so offensive to you, I think you need therapy. It really isn't a big deal. Paint yours a nice pink or something to compliment it!

What did you do about this @Katey83 Anything? Did you contact the council?

Just to make you feel a bit better, at least your neighbour's home doesn't look like any of these!

Then you have two options, either buy all houses around you and paint them as you like, or move to a conservation area.