Grey decor

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AIBU to hope this trend dies a death soon?

I'm house hunting at the moment and every other house is grey. Grey walls, grey kitchens, grey bathrooms.... bloody depressing.

Can someone please tell me it's starting to go out of fashion? It's the avocado bathroom suite for our times...

Not on instagram.

Pop is a rather naff word when user like that. Makes me think of popping a spot.

Ugh I've had mine grey for 5 years. I'm not changing anytime soon because I've only just replaced the sofa.

Exterior grey woodwork looks like undercoat to me.

I think grey interiors can look so classy and very versatile - lots of accent colours can be used etc. But I do think it is a fashion and will eventually date.

I recently stayed in an exquisite B&B which had clearly had tens of thousands spent on interior design and decoration (no mere human could have "sourced" those mirrors!). Huge amounts of grey woodwork and panelling etc. My first thought was "wow!", my second was "this is going to cost a bloody fortune to re-do".

Then again it might actually become a classic or do a few decades like magnolia. Better a grey door frame for a few years than a metallic floral feature wall (or the lime green/navy fad of the 90s).

BTW Ikea are selling this horror sofa. Chucking out our chintz didn't last long did it?

I love grey!

Blue has replaced grey for kitchen units. Personally grey is not a colour I would choose I find it depressing. Went to view a house a couple of years ago and the kitchen units, flooring and worktops were different shades of grey, the walls throughout the house and carpets in the bedroom were grey. I didn't buy it.

You don't have to be on Instagram. If you Google 'Mrs Hinch Living Room' you can see it.

We have a couple of grey rooms, but that's because we inherited a whole bunch of paintings and they look gorgeous against it. We went for 'warm pewter' which is warm enough to work with natural woods, so not the ghastly white woodwork that's still unreasonably omnipresent.

I like grey and silver but I suppose it's like anything what's fashionable at the time ,my parents put in a new kitchen in their house in the mid 90,s all integrated and oak very fashionable at the time but very dated now.

Our house’s stairs and upstairs landing currently has yellow and sand stripey wallpaper on the bottom half. Floral border in the middle and salmon pink on the top half. Not to mention the floral stencils.............everywhere!!!

The bathroom is Pink (wtf) with floral stencil and avocado bath suite.

It’s a work in progress.

Overdoing anything in one colour is going to date it and reach saturation point pretty quickly.

Grey can be done well, but done badly it's dull and depressing like 2:45 on a dampish January Wednesday.

I still like F&B greys for paint but I really want to change the grey bathrooms (here when bought) which I find too grey

Grey is a lovely foil against which other punchy colours can really shout. I'm afraid I find your views very wrong. We have a concrete floor.....with bright colourful rugs on it, it's fantastic. I love the cosiness of colour and texture against the industrial backdrop of greys ...I'd never tire of it.
The 80's avocado was an entirely difference concept...that was a fashion colour of the time that got over done ...perhaps like today's teal or lime. Grey is a foil shade.

I have a grey and white hall,stairs and landing, I love it.
I have a grey and lemon bathroom, I love that too.
When we decorate our bedroom I’m going for grey and pink.

Grey works well either alone or with a complimentary colour.
If you don’t like it, paint it some other colour.

That Mrs Hinch stuff looks like someone got my 80's barbie house and drained all the pink colour out.

Magnolia is not neutral, it makes everything look sort of yellow.

I love my grey kitchen, dining room, it is so easy to change accessories, I am playing it safe with cream & silver, for the summer I'll change to lime green.

I love and I mean LOVE grey but it's not a fad for me, I've always loved it.
However I don't like grey, crushed velvet anything or mirrored furniture, they are just tasteless.
And whoever said 'pops of colour' need to be taken outside and shot

Yellow is better than ashtray.

I hate grey in any shape or form - interior decorating, carpets, clothes, cars, anything. It is dull and depressing. I have cream, black and red kitchen, black and white bathrooms and mostly neutral everywhere else. I like it anyway!

I don’t think Mrs Hinch is a good example of nice grey

Someone show me nice grey.

I like grey, much more than white and magnolia (which are very stark and glaring and make me feel dizzy!)

Our house has grey inner doors, kitchen, curtains and carpets. It's a soft dove grey, I find it soothing. We have lots of yellow (cushions, throws, rugs) to brighten it up and bleached pine furniture.

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Was warned by various fashionable friends that painting my kitchen yellow was wrong, and I should choose a nice fashionable grey (just like them)

But I did not listen

YANBU. Grey everything looks vulgar, even with colour accents. One grey room is OK, though not an entire home top to bottom.

Fucking love Grey/industrial. Always have.
Hate hate hate brown/magnolia/beige.
Who cares if it’s looks dated in the future, that’s the point it works for me now. I like strong colours like navy and greys and strong blues. Better than hints of colours.