Grey flocked fucking wallpaper

[JacintaJones]

Why is it suddenly featuring in approximately fifty percent of homes according to extensive research on Facebook

That is all the knowledge which I currently wish to be availed of and I'm shamelessly posting here for traffic.

Ok here's traffic.
What on earth are you talking about?

Wallpaper, various shades of grey, flocked patterns. Seemingly everywhere.

Why?

Because people like it? It’s ‘on trend’ and if you’re updating s room in your home you’ll generally go for something current.

Wasn't it like 10 years ago that was the thing to do. Looks awfully dated now.

You research other people's decor on Facebook?

There is 'on trend ' and 'nice to have on your walls '. Sometimes the two are not the same thing

If it's everywhere in shops then obviously there is a demand for it. Not my thing, but if someone wants it for their home then fair enough. We all like different things.

Well if it's because people like it then that's understandable.

I just find it bemusing that so many people suddenly like the same wallpaper and use it to decorate their homes, irrespective of the overall style/size of their house.

I mean it's grey, look outside your window for six months of the year and your decor will match the environment like some weird pastiche of pathetic fallacy in action.

And the Victorian flocking, in a thirties semi?
En masse?

Just feels a bit strange to me.

knock well there’s no legal requirement to have anything you don’t want so if it’s not your thing, there’s no need for concern. Clearly the OP’s research says opposite tobyour thinking!

Everybody is sharing their Christmas decs, it's hard not to be overwhelmed by the backdrop of grey flock.

I don't think anyone on my Facebook feed is sharing their Christmas "decs"

Two people on my Facebook friends list put up their Christmas trees and decorations this week. I'm more put out by that than I am by their choice in wall coverings, it's still bloody November.

I had to google the wall paper. I think it's fine though! But then I'm viewing houses at the moment and would have to live with bright orange and or black walls with some of them, and a but if grey would be easier for me to live with until I could change it.
(One house had a room with all four walls and ceiling painted black. It really put me off!)

I did view a house completely decorated in grey. No flock wallpaper though.

I like grey on walls but that’s only because you can then go for something bright elsewhere. So light grey dining room walls, bright red chairs. Wood table. I do like grey

Really Sooty? Well by my powers of deduction I suppose that they aren't on the whole working/lower middle class then.

Is this (yawn) a class marker? The grey flock I mean?

Grey flocked wallpaper and rose gold mirrored console table in the hallway.....

Reminds me of a 1980's indian restaurant, but grey instead of red...

It's grey overall that is kind of the in vogue thing, I think. Grey the new magnolia!. I don't mind it, some people have the requisite grey on the walls and make a nice job with bright/mute secondary colour theme. But it's kind of had it's day now and I'd be pissed off if I hired an interior designer who suggests grey with an accent colour, we can all do that ourselves. It's very unimaginative, nothing wrong with with, but nothing exciting either. The flock has always being a bit gross though but then again I have never seen it done well.

My grey flocked wallpaper is my favourite thing in my house. I've even got silver flocked curtains to match. No gold mirrored console table though, so I'm missing that particular trick.

I’ve not seen anyone with grey flocked wallpaper, and I dont know anyone with their decorations up either. So clearly we live in parallel universes

On a seperate note my granny had gold flocked wallpaper when I was growing up. A bit like this retro one from the seventies so I shall always associate flock with the seventies.

That's the one Bluntness! The very same save for the colour!

Clearly if I was only able to have been alive in the seventies I'd have known that it was retro!

Thanks for your post. Most helpful

Yup. That’s actually an original seventies paper and as close as damit to my grans at that time.

And I'm just a bit disappointed with the prevalence of the grey flock, I've got quite an imposing, red brick, Victorian semi and I'd hoped to decorate my hall, stairs and landing in some kind of flocked wallpaper, probably white after Christmas.

I've had to go back to the drawing board completely.

That gold flock paper up thread was in our first house in the 80s only it was red. No doubt from the 70s