To think husband could have a bought a kettle that matched the kitchen?

[BegoniaBampot]

Needed a new kettle ASAP and husband came in a few hours later and surprised me with a new kettle which I thought was lovely. it's bloody bright blue and white, does not match the kitchen at all. Can't change it as it sounds like I'm being a controlling nutjob but every time I turn round it's there screaming out, taunting me with it's very hideousness! Please tell me IABU and to get a grip! usually he has quite good taste, a little chrome or even cream jobbie would have been most welcomed.

My guess is that he thinks you asked him to buy a kettle and that's what he did. I love men. They really don't sweat the small stuff.

So would you buy a blue kettle, say a white toaster and cream food processor and a silver microwave - I'm coming over all faint at the mere thought!

I normally say yabu to this.

I like mismatching.

however, I did once have a beaytiful kitchen which was 50s in theme and strictly turquoise and yellow.
I have to say that it was always possible to get turquoise so there were quite a lot of pale blue and mint green bits snuck in.
anything that couldn't adhere was stainless steel anyway.

Oh dear OP you would hate our kitchen
Fridge -white
Oven - black
Hob- white
Extractor - white
Microwave - stainless steel
Kettle -white
Toaster - purple
Health grill - grey
Food processor - silver
Toastie maker - red
Slow cooker - beige with flowers

YABU. however i'd be going mental if this happened to me.

my ex used to be really particular about matching kitchen stuff.

maybe that's why I don't care.
it is chosen on its own merits.

Keep the receipt, tell him it was faulty, take it back and say that as it was on sale, you couldn't swap it for one the same as they were all gone.

Then get a nice one that you do like.

But be wary of getting everything to match and looking like you live in the Argos catalogue.

Never visit my house, OP, just for the sake of your own sanity.

YANBU it's hardly difficult! DH is pretty hopeless but when our toaster blew up he grabbed one at the supermarket and picked the one closest to the other appliances in colour.

yabu for saying he "surprised" you with a kettle.an essential item for the house,thats not present!

ah, the joy of the no present list wedding !> got 6 kettles several toasters etc etc ,10 years later ,divorce and still enough stuff to divvi up so no arguement over same> bliss

He is rebelling. Your norty DH!

I have the spotty kettle!! I like it Is that bad??

Things in the kitchen have to match. How can you bear them not to??? My toaster, kettle and slow cooker are all in a lovely metallic red. My kitchen scales are cream which pisses me off no end. My toastie maker is stainless steel so lives in a cupboard now. Anal? Moi?

So would you buy a blue kettle, say a white toaster and cream food processor and a silver microwave - I'm coming over all faint at the mere thought!

My kettle is purple. My toaster is lime green. My microwave is cream. My fridge/freezer is silver. My cooker is dark grey. My coffee machine is red. My food processor is orange.

I have just had to think about what colour the stuff in our kitchen is. And what colour the kitchen is. I am a gurl.

(The kitchen is yellow. The kettle is red. The last toaster was red, but this toaster is yellow because it was on sale.)

Our plates are a mismatch of inherited stuff.

Ihearsounds - Why? Is your kitchen white and your going for that eclectic splash of crazy colour look? Could see that working (squints eyes and pictures a Dazzling display emoting the ambience of pristine white Santorini with a dash or bright hewn colour mimicking the brightly painted doors and meditteranean flowers).

Does this mean that if you redo your kitchen (something I believe people do do, not that it happens much in the Inferiority Complex) you have to get new stuff? Or d'you have to respray it or something?

It's a kettle, it boils water, it was in the sale.

It therefore ticks three out of three requirements - job done!

That the aesthetics committee (DW) added a goes with requirement never enters a man's head.

I'm permanently in trouble for tweaking DIY projects etc with, no you can't leave screws showing or you need to find matching coloured wood or some other job slowing down niggle.

Honestly, they just don't notice.

Nope. My kitchen isn't white either, and not a single flower on any wall, door cupboard, or anywhere in fact aside from in a vase. I am not going for the eclectic splash of crazy colour look. Just I am not so tied into having rid everything every time I decide to paint the walls a different colour.. Having a mish of colours means I can redo my kitchen without having to think about colour plans. It also means that because I don't care about colour scheme I get fantastic bargains.

our kitchen ist very imaginative but i like it,its wooden with cream walls ad cream tiled floor,stainless steel appliances(all of them!)fridge is white but is in seperate utility room so it doest bother me.All plates are white,i only buy cheapish ones because me and the kids are really clumsy and we get probably smash 1 a week o average!

Can I just congratulate motherinferior on the Inferiority Complex

Sounds very like our kitchen Amber, also usually go for stainless steel and chrome. Never had a kitchen done ourselves. Always made do and tarted up. Oh the possibilities of starting from scratch. Wonder what I'd go for.

Other than just telling him it you don't like the colour, (which is what I'd do) I like the idea of saying it is faulty, say you got a shock from it, and return it and buy a kettle you like.