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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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Soberinthecity · 30/06/2026 18:20

This is a wind up, surely 😂

Calmdownfolks · 30/06/2026 18:17

Sounds lovely, especially the white trim around the windows, which sounds very similar to a lot of the houses around the Mosel (Moselle) in Germany.

SisterMidnight77 · 30/06/2026 18:12

I don’t get why you thought his wife wouldn’t approve of it. Surely she already had.

BambinaCucina · 30/06/2026 18:09

I love mykonos blue, it's my favourite. The picture you showed isn't that though.

It's their house, that presumably they own, so YABU. It'll bring a bit of colour in winter.

godmum56 · 30/06/2026 18:06

Popcorn! popcorn! getcher popcorn ere!!

Yesterdayoho · 30/06/2026 18:03

I’d paint pink spots on it too

PigeonDuckGoose · 30/06/2026 18:02

🤣🤣🤣 if a colour ruins your experience of your own garden that much you need lighten up a bit!

EmpireLoading · 30/06/2026 18:01

Just close your eyes when you're in the garden so you wont see it.

Kaidaia · 30/06/2026 18:00

For goodness sake. You will get used to it. Sure you will barely notice it by next summer.

Vixxxs · 30/06/2026 17:59

Yes you are being unreasonable and you must have nothing better to do? Your neighbor is right, she doesn’t like the colour of your house, what would you have said to her if she knocked your door and asked you to do the same, I’m not a fan of my neighbours, their garden is like a rubbish dump and it spoils it for me sitting in my garden, but I’ve been told there’s nothing I can do, so just put a line under it and enjoy your garden and perhaps sit with your back to the blue wall?

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 30/06/2026 17:57

KTheGrey · 30/06/2026 13:34

Stripes

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😂😂😂

MrSchubertWhiskers · 30/06/2026 17:57

LouiseK93 · 30/06/2026 17:53

Pressed YANBU by mistake!
You are being extremely unreasonable.

You can change your response :)

JadeWriter · 30/06/2026 17:56

How rude and entitled are you! You are completely out of order, and should apologise to her.
She was very polite to you.

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 30/06/2026 17:56

Do you live in Ballamory?

l love brightly coloured houses.

OhcantthInkofaname · 30/06/2026 17:55

Close your eyes and find something else to be offended about!

She is definitely right about the beige.

LouiseK93 · 30/06/2026 17:53

Pressed YANBU by mistake!
You are being extremely unreasonable.

namethisbird · 30/06/2026 17:51

Buy some pleached trees they are good to create a barrier between gardens.

Bbq1 · 30/06/2026 17:49

Livingthebestlife · 29/06/2026 13:59

Is her name* *Edie McCredie

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grumpygrape · 30/06/2026 13:43

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 13:59

We are in London! Not a posh part but obviously everywhere in London is expensive!! I don’t want to live near an eyesore.

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The ghost of the late great Penelope Keith is among us 😊

mumumental · 30/06/2026 13:36

It’s a shit colour in the UK, because it’s wrong for our more northern light. Some blue houses work, though. Although not that shade.

KTheGrey · 30/06/2026 13:34

SilenceInside · 29/06/2026 14:16

How could there possibly be a compromise? What did you imagine the compromise position to be??

Stripes

RobinEllacotStrike · 30/06/2026 13:28

XenoBitch · 29/06/2026 19:29

It is the back of the house.

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"We know you've got BLUE back there - come out & show us your BLUE!
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PretendToBeToastWithMe · 30/06/2026 12:38

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:08

I meant the shutting the door in my face was rude. At least we could have had a conversation about it. But it seems I Abu so I shall have to get over it.

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It was very rude of you to tell her you want her to change the colour of her house so she was just giving it back in kind.

Aslana · 30/06/2026 12:30

Rather harsh. It could be overpowering if you want to relax in your garden. I suggest ways to make it more positive by growing some Mediterranean type shrubs and flowers and changing your thought if you can.

KTheGrey · 30/06/2026 12:28

NoodleHorses · 30/06/2026 12:20

Just out of curiosity, are you the woman who reported me to the parish council for having “an offensively orange car” and further saying that “it was not in keeping with the village aesthetic”?

I am about to paint my shed blue. Fair warning and all that jazz.

You unspeakable swine.

Full disclosure I paint any house blue if I can. I like blue. Also people who do not paint their houses like Ballamory are missing out.