Wheelie bins next to neighbour's house

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Not sure if I am in the right or wrong here, so I am canvassing opinion!

We have a double driveway on the side of our house, with a double garage at the end of it.

One side of the driveway is bordered by our own detached house and the other side of the driveway is bordered by the side of the neighbour's detached house (with no windows looking out onto our side).

It's a bit of a funny angle and I can't get the car into the garage if the wheelie bins are along the side of our own house. So I've been putting them across the other side of the drive from our house, so they are alongside the neighbour's house walls.

She just came round and told me to move them and that she didn't want them touching her house. I've just taken a look outside, and she's moved them about 3' from her house wall, so they're now in the middle of my drive.

I'm really confused as to why this has upset her - if I could understand her reasoning I'd feel more understanding. But I'm a bit flummoxed as to why this is an issue. I would have asked her, but I've just had surgery and she woke me up and caught me off guard a bit and I wasn't thinking straight and the request threw me a bit.

Can anyone explain why this might be wrong, so that I can understand this more?! It will affect how I deal with it, because at the moment I am failing to see the issue and feel like putting them back along her wall.

All these replies saying ‘fuck her, have your bins where you want and leave them open just to annoy her for having the temerity to ask’.

Does anyone ever consider doing something to help someone out and not be a dick about it? I know this is MN where anyone asking anything of you is automatically a CF, but sometimes life is just that little bit nicer when you’re not being a cunt for the sake of it.

Absolutely. But the neighbour is being a total cunt here. She could have come round and asked a lot nicer. And most importantly not actually moved the bins herself which she has no right to do! If people act like arseholes they can’t be surprised if they get treated like one.

I can sort of see both sides. I'm not posh in any way but I do think bins visible from the front of the house look a bit unattractive and if they're against her wall it probably looks like they are hers.
However, one of my neighbours is so precious about our shared path it's mind boggling. They have a low hedge bordering their lawn which essentially cuts off the shared path so it looks like it belongs to my house. They dont use it, ever. They dont walk anywhere and it's a one way street so their house is before mine as you come down, they just pull into their drive which is most of the front of their house and go in. To use the path they'd have to park, get out of the car, walk to the street and round, up the path and turn back into their garden! But boy does he look unamused if ive been weeding my borders and not swept up to his standards, he'll come out and sweep it again

I just leave him to it, not worth making a fuss about. If you're new i'd move them just to keep the peace I think.

I think it's perfectly simple . . . if they are up against her house then it looks from the road as if they are hers.

Her own bins are either visible at another point, in which case it looks like her house is surrounded by bins, or she has organised some bin storage to disguise them so they are out of sight, which you have just ruined by dumping yours right next to her house. No one likes looking at bins. Mine are outside my house as there is nowhere else to for them to go and I hate it, but they are at least mine.

I can't imagine how you can't see why this is rude. If your bins were in your way on your driveway, you could have put one either side of your front door. Why did you not fancy this option? Because it doesn't look nice? Well fair enough but that's how your neighbour feels x 100 because they are not her bins.

I'm with the neighbour, you really shouldn't do that.

The world is bloody mad on here sometimes. Put your bins either side of your front door when you've got a perfectly good double driveway that you own to put them on. Easy to say that when you're not the person who actually owns the land and the bins.