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.

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

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.

I think this is true to some extent, people follow the trends and don't always have the confidence to shine differently.

The UK has grey weather so much of the time and my thinking is why have a grey home/car/clothing. Personally I find other colours less depressing.

I agree @MillyMollyMurphy It's minging.

We have a beautiful old country inn (built in the 1850s) that we pass on the way to see our adult DC (around 3 miles from us.) It was rendered many years ago, (maybe the 1980s,) and has been magnolia, white, pale yellow, and pale baby blue. But in 2020, some joker decide to paint it dark GREY. It's fecking vile.

RAL colour 7032, Pebble Grey, is an indefinable neutral with a brown/green element to it. We chose it for our aluminium windows inside and out and I love it. It's natural and soft against white exterior paint with stone, and softly coloured interior - and I think more modern than graphite grey.
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Our cottage was built in the 1800's and has grey slab stone floors and grayish stone walls, don't think well bother changing them now! I do like grey anyway actually and always have, just not everywhere or with no other colours.

I’m in a new build and the windows and doors are grey, the whole flat is a whitish grey…
My biggest issue though is the windows in external doors, full length glass over half the doors so the house is bloody freezing 😐
In the middle of a city too, doesn’t seem safe to me!

I never understood the obsession with grey. Walls, carpets, kitchens, doors, fences, cars...

Ah well I suppose people like the living in a battleship effect.

My hallway/landing was grey in my old house but that was 4 yrs ago. The exterior was also a very pale grey. We had the exterior repainted white to sell though. I have no grey in my current home. I am moving with my partner to a 3 storey Victorian house and he wants dark grey windows, so that's a subject of debate at the moment! I'm hoping he will change his mind in a few months, once the interior is done. He is buying it so his choice - the one I'm buying (to rent out not live in) will stay white!