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.

Of course we can all decorate our homes how we wish and most of us would never dream of criticising anyone's decor directly.

It doesn't and shouldn't stop us having an opinion about it on an anonymous forum.

The grey window frames will age a house exactly as the dark brown ones do on 80s/90s houses.

I think people who do this know this and feel financially secure enough to just replace them when the trend is over. It is kind of an outward in-your-face display of having moneymoneymoney to spare, otherwise they'd play it safe with white windows that will outlast any trends.

A proper neutral grey cam be lovely as a back drop to a room with other colours.

**can

Totally agree with this. I'll admit I was on the grey bandwagon a few years ago but like most trends, it's quickly on it's way out. I refuse to purchase anything for our home that's grey.

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

Clearly, you didn’t really want that house.

Couldn't agree more OP.

Loads of houses round me have gone grey windows and doors. It looks very prison-y.

My NNDs have put on a grey conservatory to match their grey windows, doors and fences and have even painted their DC's Wendy house grey. It's so depressing!!!!!!!!

The Mrs Hinch grey-everything look with mirrored furniture and crushed velvet sofas is not and has never been classy and has clearly taken over from the magnolia and beige everything look that was popular in the 90s. A house in Scandinavian style with light grey walls, white painted doors, windows and skirting boards, real wood floors and a mix of natural wood, neutrals and some bright colours in the soft furnishings is pretty timeless.

I quite like the painted charcoal windows and think they suit Victorian properties in particular. I think it's too soon to say if it will be a passing trend or if we'll all end up painting our window frames dark eventually and think of white window frames as dated.

So last century. My first house in 1989 was all grey.

I have a grey kitchen which I installed 5 years ago and still love but wouldn't do my whole house in grey.
A house near me had had its render pained grey and installed dark grey windows and to me it looks like haunted horror house, so drab

I think people who do this know this and feel financially secure enough to just replace them when the trend is over. It is kind of an outward in-your-face display of having moneymoneymoney to spare, otherwise they'd play it safe with white windows that will outlast any trends.

Wooden windows need painting regularly anyway so it's not that big a deal to change them.

I've seen a few houses here with brick walls painted grey and I think it looks awful. Fences and window frames is ok I think.

I haven't got a single grey thing in my house. The front door is bright red.

Ooh, I love a bit of grey.

My sofas are grey.
My carpets and curtains throughout the house are grey.
All walls, doors, skirting boards etc are white and I've gone batcrap crazy with colourful beddings, cushions, pictures etc.
No regrets. 😁

It's had it's day, it's all wood panelling and Egyptian cotton now

I know, it's dull, predictable, trendy at the moment but really why does everything have to be so grey. Dull battleship grey or even the better greys suck the life out. I guess it is trendy so lots will do it for a while. I agree some of it looks like they stopped at the undercoat and left the job.

Agreed!
I feel like everything is grey, I hate it so much that I've made a pledge to not have anything grey in my home 🙅🏻‍♀️

My Victorian house is white render (1970 version not modern) so we have gone for grey sash windows as they had white plain pvc awful things in before we changed them so the choice was white, grey, cream or green ( real wooden sash were far too expensive) so we went with grey as I can’t stand green and the white or cream would look lost against the white but my interior isn’t grey! I actually don’t really like the colour grey but I couldn’t get black sash windows like I originally wanted 😩 but to be fair they look good even though I’m not a fan of the modern white and grey combo

it's awful op. round here really £££ houses have awful white paint and grey doors, like asylums or clinics.

Compare the two:

www.londonperfect.com/blog/2019/03/notting-hills-most-colorful-streets/ pastel

www.google.com/search?q=streets+with+grey+houses&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi5lYnr3_L2AhULyKQKHUCVDBAQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=streets+with+grey+houses&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEAUQHjoGCAAQCBAeOgQIABAYUJgGWJYmYNwnaABwAHgAgAFUiAHNDJIBAjI1mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=Y-BGYvnXDouQkwXAqrKAAQ&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GBGB986GB987#imgrc=YNGHtXi7LfqzJM grey home concrete mess

What colour do you suggest I paint my battleship?

A bit of WW1 dazzle paint would liven it up a bit.

We chose grey window frames because our house is rendered and painted cream and would have looked insipid with white frames. I think it looks fab!

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

What colour do you suggest I paint my battleship?

Bring back flower power and paint a shit ton of daises on it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I thought grey was well on the way out anyway.
I never understood the trend, not when on so many days in the U.K. you only have to look out of the window.

The ‘everything grey’ look always meant (to me anyway) that the person was a slavish follower of fashion and had zero ideas of their own. Or possibly had no confidence in their own taste, in case it was deemed ‘unfashionable’ by friends/family.

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