Stop making everything grey!

[MillyMollyMurphy]

Just this really. As if the last couple of years haven’t been bad enough, everyone in my street is replacing their doors, windows, fences with grey ones. People I know have painted the entire interior of their houses in grey. Why? It’s the colour of gloom and joylessness. I’m sure it’s going to date horribly too.

I love the pastel shades of some cottages in our county, they add joy to the world.
However I infinitely prefer a tasteful grey and neutral to some of the bold vulgar colours like petrol blue or bright green, red etc that looks so dated. Grey exterior with some huge white blooms can look incredible, or powder pink garden to compliment. It is more tasteful than some of the obscene houses we have seen. Purple etc, junk in the garden etc.

@D0lphine

Sometimes grey window frames look fab, for example on a house made of grey stone with a slate roof.

But it's very much whether if it's in keeping with the vibe of the house.

For example red brick houses look horrible with grey doors/ windows.

Defo agree grey looks totally dated post pandemic. People are going for warm welcoming colour schemes with lots of indoor plants and natural textures.

The overly glam mrs hinch grey everything mirrored everything is hard and cold. Hate it

This is our house.We just replaced the original 1960s windows and doors with grey, and because of the stonework it looks fab. We did make the inside frames white though to keep decor options open

Every time I think about replacing our kitchen it comes back into fashion.... 1970s grey Magnet kitchen, been in fashion four times now

Not too bad for 50 years.

@Cameliah

It stays clean longer and it’s neutral and modern. I like it and clearly so does everyone else.

Same

@Cameliah

It stays clean longer and it’s neutral and modern. I like it and clearly so does everyone else.

Everyone?

Don't tar us all with the same brush!

It can be difficult to get things other colours though . We are having our bathroom redone and I wanted light blue tiles - everything is just grey. Our bathroom is downstairs and we already have grey carpet through the hallway and living area. I do like it but it's too much for your whole house I think . We've got bright accessories in the living room and we eventually found the colour tiles we wanted for the bathroom - it cost a lot more though .

Each to his own. Depends what you put with it. My kitchen, which is eight years old, has grey base units and blue gloss top cupboards. The walls are a very pale grey and denim blue and the sofa and dining chairs are blue.

I don't mind some grey in interiors. But grey fences and windows on all houses is miserable. And I agree those front doors with the stupid massive handles and weird windows are awful.

We have a couple of grey rooms in our house, but they also have accent colours.

I am buying a house that has grey carpet throughout and white walls. I cannot wait to add some colour to it.

@iklboo

My cousin's wife has decorated every single room - including kitchen & bathroom - grey. Not a single 'pop' of colour anywhere. Even the ornaments & towels / tea towels are grey.

I saw an all grey house on Rightmove and was totally convinced they had accidentally shot the photos in black and white. It was bizarre.

It's grim, depressing and already looks dated especially the window frames and doors.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

What colour do you suggest I paint my battleship?

If I had a battleship, it would be bright red with flames on with the words “big bastard battleship” painted in ten foot letters on the side.

Already dated and it would put me off buying because I hate it so much. Someone bought a Victorian terrace down our row, ripped everything out and replaced it with modern grey doors, silver grey carpets etc. It has been put back on the market but they've dropped the price in the last month.

Grey window frames are the avocado bathrooms suites of the future.

I don’t get the angst of how other people decorate their homes. I’ve a friend who has used a lot of grey, another who lives in a mushroom coloured bubble, someone else still has the eighties terracotta. None of it is my scene, but it’s their homes, they like it, that’s all that matters, they don’t need to decorate to please me or anyone else.

Hate grey.

My flat is very very colourful. I find grey depressing.

I've just had my bathroom done and about 70% of people I asked about colour schemes (I really struggled with any sort of vision!) suggested grey.

I'm not one for following trends (the bathroom hasn't been done since the house was built in the mid 80s), but even if I was I don't think I would have gone for grey for all the reasons people have said.

I went all white in case anyone is interested

YANBU, it’s now starting to look v v dated and the grey and yellow thing will be shortly seen as excruciatingly 2010s (not that I didn’t myself quite like it for a while, in moderation, but it’s now definitely past its moment).

Most of my living room is oatmeal sorts of textured neutrals and oak, plus white walls; but we do have a grey sofa we bought in 2016, and I’ve recently been trying to think of new colours that will liven it all up a bit and stop it seeming too grey and dated!

Am liking the idea of a blue velvet sofa instead, but have no spare cash. Argh. Marooned in greyness!

Other things that are now well past their best:
— those kitchen bar stools with the single adjustable chrome legs;
— velvet shiny silver grey carpets with that nap you have to vacuum in to them;
— mirrored furniture;
— blush/germolene pink was a flash in the pan - briefly here, now already on its way out;
— I spent ages looking for a circular mirror when none could be found. Bought one recently - and so did everyone else. Fastest overexposed trend ever.

Is grey still in? I thought navy blue with fake panelling was the new thing.

I’ll decorate my home how I wish. It isn’t grey, but if I wanted it to be, it would.

The absolutely wonderful thing for you, is, you don’t have to do it to your house if you don’t want to.

I hate it. I pulled out of a house purchase because the neighbors painted their house grey and trued their back yard into a slate grey monstrosity with a grey path and grey fence. I couldn't stand to look at it every day

I quite like it tbh

I am painting my garden fence soon. Will not do it grey. Hope that helps.

Are there any other colours I should avoid?

My kitchen is dark grey and white but thankfully at the back of the house so hopefully my poor neighbours are able to avoid seeing it. Will try and keep blinds shut more often.

I don't like dark brown fence paint so if you could avoid that I would appreciate it.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

What colour do you suggest I paint my battleship?

Yellow - pretend it’s a submarine!

I’m not a fan, but then I don’t like the whole industrial/brutalist look anyway.

I do agree the whole trend has run away with itself. It was sold as the new neutral of choice but I don’t remember people taking magnolia to such extremes!

I like grey and have tones of it in my home but it’s used as a tool of neutrality to carry other colours.

I’m not a massive fan of the window frames because they just look like there’re big gaping holes in houses from a distance during the day without blinds or curtains visible. It looks a bit unnerving/derelict I suppose.