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

Move to Bath.

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.

Love her answer off course you can enjoy your garden because that's yours the blue one is hers stop being one of those nieghbours that like to interfere as she said you don't have to like it .

I can't believe that the only thing in your life you have to grump about is the colour of the neighbour's house!

I can’t see where the OP said that this is the only problem she has in life. Can you direct me to where she said that? It is possible for people to have big problems but sometimes focus on the much smaller ones you know. And many people would not post a serious problem on here but might post about something fairly trivial.

I actually think some people are being unnecessarily bitchy on this thread, particularly some who are writing comment after comment. But yes, accusing you of having two accounts and posting is poor behaviour and you could report it.

That was my first thought too 😁

Because you're the one who wants it. HTH.

Haha. Yeah. Be careful what you wish for!

We had a house that was painted a lovely (IMO) duck-egg blue, with white, wood sash windows. Last time I saw it it had been painted a greigey-taupe sort of colour, with grey windows and front door. Looked bloody awful to me, but it's their house now so they can do what they like...

I'd be tempted to send a strongly worded voicenote, as accosting them on their own doorstep didn't work ;)

Painted houses, owned, can be any colour the owners like, unless it's listed and/or in a conservation area.

I can't believe that the only thing in your life you have to grump about is the colour of the neighbour's house!

I totally understand that not everyone likes coloured houses and you don't like the blue on theirs, fair enough, BUT, I agree with your neighbour. I also LOVE coloured houses like those in Blackpool, etc.

How can you report them just for having a coloured house?! Even if the entire thing, roof included, was painted Mr Blobby style or Minions or Smurfs, whatever, then just because you don't like the colour, you have no right at all to try to report.

I personally can't abide boring beige, blinding white, etc., but I wouldn't report you or come to your door to moan about the colour of your house!

GOOD ON YOUR NEIGHBOUR is what I say!

I would love to live in ballamory and all have diff colour houses

I wonder if they have a designated organiser who looks after the hanging baskets?

As cute as I find this idea, I couldn't be arsed. I'd be the one in the middle, with the chipped painted door and hanging basket full of weeds and dead flowers, who everyone hates. I have neither the time nor the inclination to put this much effort into fitting in with my neighbours and pleasing passers-by.

There's a lovely colourful terrace of houses where I live; from memory there's a pale blue, primrose yellow, pale pink, soft grey, light green, darker blue-grey, a pale lavender plus a couple that are white or cream. They all have toning front doors, too, and hanging baskets that co-ordinate with the colour of the render.

It's a little too contrived in a way, but it cheers me up whenever I drive past, even on the greyest of days.

Sympathies, @BauhausOfEliott, I'm struggling to think of a colour that is more hideous than fake stone cladding.

😂

Your wit appears to be as dull as your taste in colours. It’s OP who thinks it’s outrageous that a mere manual labourer can live in a £500k house.

And very very very very cheap is subjective, much like taste.

You are getting a hard time over this because you feel you are entitled to pick and choose how other people live and you seriously need to get over yourself.

There are privacy screens you can set up in your garden if you are that bothered. You could also rearrange your seating so you can look at your own house instead of your neighbours.

Think of ways to manage your own space because you have zero control over space that doesn’t belong to you.

In case it wasn’t really clear yet, no one cares what you think. This is just a fact of life you should come to terms with. Getting offended and having a tantrum doesn’t change that.

Brilliant advertisement placing on this thread 😂

It was always my landmark to start getting my stuff together coming doen Headington Hill on the Oxford Tube!

YABU for not dressing as a smurf and taking a picture against it.

When the flag thing was at its height last year a man at one of the towns out in the county in my area had the front of his house painted like the Union Jack. If I remember rightly it was a terrace, so the people living on either side were not exactly thrilled

South London? I see your blue back wall and raise you this:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/69ggXq5X72jtAHU49
It's faded a lot in recent years, but when I was a kid it was even more lurid than this. https://ideal-homes.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0010/356383/loampit-hill-01446-750.jpg
I could've sworn that the stonework was bright pink at one point, but can't find any photos of that.

Anyone else got the balamory theme tune in their head

Im team blue 💙

I’d have slammed my door in your face too.