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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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Tortephant · 29/06/2026 22:24

May be a bright colour will do you good Op, you clearly need cheering up from your beige world. Offensive is a strange word to choose!

Ptikobj · 29/06/2026 22:20

BlackCat14 · 29/06/2026 19:49

I laughed out loud that you told her it’s not to your taste and asked her to change it. I don’t think she cares if it’s to your taste or not. Did you really think she would change it just because you don’t like it?

Also you mention in one of your replies you wish she would at least compromise. What is a compromise here? She either leaves it blue to suit herself or goes back to beige to suit you. What’s a compromise/middle ground in this situation?

Neighbour paints one half of the wall white.

Neighbour paints white stripes on her house.

OP also paints her house blue so that it matches.

Besafeeatcake · 29/06/2026 22:12

Your entitlement and arrogance are off the chart.

Its their house. They can do what they like.

How dare you think that somehow some authority should care about a perfectly fine paint colour .

YABVU

Nine2five · 29/06/2026 22:11

I’m thinking the neighbours will be considering painting the other three walls after this.

My house is blue and my neighbours house is a sickly greeny yellow. I personally wouldn’t have chosen his green colour, but then again, he likes it so that’s ok. It’s really none of my business and my blue house, which maybe he’s not fond of is none of his business.

We are good neighbours though and we look out for each other. He’s elderly and we help him with his garden 🪏, he brings us eggs from his chickens. Life is good 😊

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 29/06/2026 22:08

Get some blue tint sunglasses. It will just look white again.

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Katey83 · 29/06/2026 22:03

Ladyzfactor · 29/06/2026 20:54

I'm pretty certain that Toveylove is OPs alternative account or a troll. They throw around a lot of therapy speech of someone trying to sound smart but they are also terminally online so don't realize that people don't talk like that in real life.

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You can ask mumsnet to check this and you will see it’s not true. I am being roasted on here and ok I asked for it. I don’t like blue. But I don’t like being accused of underhandedness by posting from an alt account.

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fashionqueen0123 · 29/06/2026 21:51

CaptainMyCaptain · 29/06/2026 21:16

Maybe they didn't like it and chose to change it.

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From what I heard that wasn’t the case.

italianlondongirl · 29/06/2026 21:47

Livingthebestlife · 29/06/2026 13:59

Is her name* *Edie McCredie

😆 Wouldn't you like to know?!

Lifeomars · 29/06/2026 21:43

MrSchubertWhiskers · 29/06/2026 19:00

I used to live in a village where there was a row of very old, very picturesque , thatched cottages - each painted a different colour. Looked lovely.

Sounds gorgeous, it would really lift my spirits to see something like that

MrSchubertWhiskers · 29/06/2026 21:40

cookbookjunkie · 29/06/2026 19:11

But to look lovely together they'd all need to be of a similar depth of colour, with no massive clashes. Either all pastels and sugared almond colours or all stronger and brighter. If one stood out as too dark/bright against the others it would look jarring and awful.

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Well perhaps the Op's neighbours will be inspired by the blue house

Lifeomars · 29/06/2026 21:40

My neighbours have a back yard filled with rubbish and broken furniture, there are about 10 of them crammed into a two up two down, they deal drugs and are usually shouting at each other until gone midnight. A blue house would be as nothing...

CaptainMyCaptain · 29/06/2026 21:16

fashionqueen0123 · 29/06/2026 20:02

A house near to me painted itself a very bright colour. It was pretty gross looking. A while later the colour was changed to a paler version. It’s not in a special area. I am not sure if the council got involved but I heard the neighbours didn’t like it. So it’s always worth an ask if it’s that bad. They seemed to be made to change it.

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Maybe they didn't like it and chose to change it.

PrettyLittleRose · 29/06/2026 21:15

rolloverbeethoven · 29/06/2026 21:02

Do you have a problem with the sky, OP?

😂

Hiddenhouse · 29/06/2026 21:13

This thread is hilarious thanks for the laugh OP!

LilyBunch25 · 29/06/2026 21:04

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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What constitutes an eyesore though is often a matter of personal taste. Your neighbour could well consider your beige house an eyesore.

rolloverbeethoven · 29/06/2026 21:02

Do you have a problem with the sky, OP?

Ladyzfactor · 29/06/2026 20:54

Violinist64 · 29/06/2026 18:34

Don’t be ridiculous. This thread is the gift that keeps on giving. Many of us have said that we probably wouldn’t like the bright blue paint but there really is nothing that can be done about it. However, it is the sheer snobbery that drips through every single one of @Katey83‘s posts that keeps us reading for each new instalment. I think this thread should go into classics.

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I'm pretty certain that Toveylove is OPs alternative account or a troll. They throw around a lot of therapy speech of someone trying to sound smart but they are also terminally online so don't realize that people don't talk like that in real life.

Ketzele · 29/06/2026 20:38

A house round the corner from me painted their house in the union jack. Not Brexit, not football, just the UK Olympics. I quite like it!

Frenzi · 29/06/2026 20:33

I love colourful houses and I love the neighbours response.

However, the only way to know if you complain about it is to ring your local planning department. If they are wrong and are made to paint it a different colour they will of course know it was you that complained as you have already been round there moaning about it.

MMUmum · 29/06/2026 20:32

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 13:59

I don’t understand this

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Balamory character, all the houses are painted bright colours in Balamory

Terfarina · 29/06/2026 20:31

maudelovesharold · 29/06/2026 19:41

Someone may already have mentioned Totterdown, Bristol? Sought after for its colourful houses!

My Totterdown house was a beautiful duck egg blue. Well, I thought is was beautiful and no neighbours requested I repaint it.

PrettyLittleRose · 29/06/2026 20:31

Katey83 · 29/06/2026 14:54

Loud. Drinks beer day and night. Shouts at the children when they are playing in the garden. Wears clothes with holes in even though they live in a £500k house. Odd.

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Where in London are you where a house costs £500K?

jmh740 · 29/06/2026 20:30

GinaandGin · 29/06/2026 14:45

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

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I used to live next door to a pink and blue house, the neighbour on the other side had annoyed them and this was their revenge. It was a great focal point for giving anyone directions to my house!

MrsMoastyToasty · 29/06/2026 20:08

@CaptainMyCaptain North Street, Bedminster.
Also in Bristol is Totterdown, Southville, and more recently Charlton Hayes with coloured houses.
There was a house in Keynsham with abstract art painted on it. Unfortunately I can't find a photo of it.

HotGazpacho · 29/06/2026 20:07

I love the OP’s indignation. “This is not Bristol!”. Unfortunately your comments about the husband and his trade only reinforce the appearance of you being an insufferable snob. Personally I’d rather live next door to a tradie in his blue house than Hyacinth Bucket.