Oh so bored of charcoal interiors

[caperberries]

I can't be alone in this? It's becoming ridiculous isn't, it?

You’re bored of the decor in other people’s homes?
yes, we are, so what? We had magnolia, we had beigey bathrooms, now we have grey. Grey everywhere. BORING

I do sympathise with people who had grey before and have to look like one of the grey-sheep

I like racing green walls with brown woodwork and accents of gold. Kind of a dark Victorian look. Not sure what to go for in a dark, north facing house though.

Oh I agree. It leaves me cold and looks so dreary.

It's the silver crushed velvet sofas I hate!

But then I can't even touch velvet anyway!

I’ve been in love with Grey for years. But I like big splashes of colour too dotted around (aesthetics obsessed dd calls them accents, I just call them things I like).

Currently trying to decide what lurid colour to paint the front door, apparently pink isn’t allowed

Oh fuck -i’ve Just painted my kitchen cabinets black and have the Eames plastic molded chairs in white.

I’m in the middle of redecorating. Can’t tell if i’m ahead of the times or slightly unhinged, but fusha is looking appealing at the moment

I have two living rooms. One grey, one very colourful.

Grey is the new magnolia, it's going nowhere.

Augustrella - dark green with gold accents? What you call Victorian, I call Harrods .

I am with you on the grey, grey, grey, bleh feeling OP.

I'm a grey sheep. I love it. But I don't do mirrored or crushed velvet. Grey all the way!

Were a grey house and I do like it but I had to agree it's overdone now.
I really like white and blue. Like a Mediterranean sort of blue. Makes me think of Greece.
I'm a fan of millennial pink too but I'm not sure if that's a little overdone?

as someone who lives in rental properties which are inevitably magnolia... i would bloody love to live in a charcoal flat!

We have a lot of grey. But we’ve had it 7 years. I do still like it though.

I have red and cream with mine with touches of green one end and turquoise the other. Have a big cream dresser that I am contemplating painting turquoise.

About to repaint a small north facing bedroom and am still contemplating grey. White wood furniture. And I bought a lovely soft green bedspread with cream and grey. So could add in lots of green. Or paint the walls green.

No crushed velvet anywhere. Def not keen on that.

I was looking for bathroom inspiration on Instagram. Almost every single one is painted that Farrow and Ball very dark blue colour. I like it but I think the popularity of Pinterest etc means that interior trends are spreading and changing much more quickly than in the past.

I have seen some houses where people start putting grey garage doors and front doors. It might look ok on some white painted building, but not on everything It has gone too far.

Why do people try to replicate everybody else's house? Don't they have taste of their own?

I have rented magnolia places, there weren't amazing, but at least with curtains, rugs and accessories it's easy to transform.

Yeah a dark foresty green. With gold or copper accents. "Marble".

I like the green, I just hope it doesn't take off in the way that grey and yellow/mustard does.

I agree, plus if the houses that we live in get smaller and smaller each decade there's nothing like a dark, dreary colour scheme to make them look even smaller and more oppressive. But who am I to judge? I love cream and off-white which are boring to those with more colourful tastes.

I watched Homes Under the Hammer for the first time in a while recently, and all the houses being done up by the cheapo buy-to-let developers had grey carpets instead of the old beige ones, with grey walls and shit too.

I loved grey, but it's gone too far. I'm now reconsidering repainting my pale grey bedroom. And I'm ashamed to admit I have a charcoal bed and GREY GREY CHARCOAL GREY SILVER GREY cushions halfway down it. They seemed like a good idea at the time, I swear... :(

My front door is pale grey, and our bathroom is (painted 5 years ago) but at the weekend I painted my spare room pale blue because I just wanted to look at something else! Our other spare room is coffee-coloured because I wanted to avoid grey overload.

Charcoal crushed velvet carpets are a thing I've seen a lot of lately. Just no.

Also, this 'millennial pink' is really getting on my tits, what's millennial about it, it's just pink, and it's been around for centuries, for fucks sake.

There's personal taste and there's fashion. They are not the same, as a quick trip to style and beauty will show you.
If a style is in Argos (nice touch of snobbery there) it is clearly no longer cutting edge but that doesn't mean it doesn't look nice. Most people aim to live in homes not style magazines.

If I painted my walls duck egg blue would it be so far behind fashion to actually be coming back into fashion?

When we redecorate we're doing each room in its own theme; Tropical in the bathroom, 50's/pastel in the kitchen, not sure what to do in the living room yet, I wanted brickwork/industrial but the hipsters took that over, then grey & white, but that's been overdone.

Victorian style B&W floor tiles in the hallway and wainscotting in the hall and up the stairs would look good. We'll have an Elvis, maybe a pink Marilyn and a New York room, and not sure about the other two. H2b can choose those. Maybe we''ll theme one on Vegas.

And I really don't care if its vulgar

Neither grey nor duck egg blue Caper, you’d be quite safe.

Grey is a bit much when it's every room in a house and sometimes the outside as well!

Each room in my house is a different colour as there are so many I like and this way I get a chance to use them all. My hallway is blue (ok so F&B Oval Room Blue but still ), lounge is cream and gold and biscuit coloured (it's nice honestly!), kitchen is grey and duck egg blue with creamy grey walls (egyptian cotton), kids rooms are pink and teal, just about to decorate our room and the bathroom. DH is desperate for a purple room (yuk) and I want green (emerald green preferably!).