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...

Yellow is my favourite colour but I'm going to wait until everyone else has stopped using it

This is just daft. Why deprive yourself of your favourite colour just because others like it too

Grey isn't neutral though. Grey is cold and overpowering.

Wrong...... I have grey in most of the rooms in my house as a neutral colour along with beige. My living room is very cosy

Grey is passé.
Brown is where it’s at.

Brown is disgusting, it’s up there with red 🤢

Funny you should say brown is in. Deluxe colour of the year is Spiced Honey which is a lovely shade of sludge/diarrhoea.

Dulux not deluxe, fgs.

We have very pale grey bedrooms, currently redoing our kitchen and determined not to have grey, so have gone for dark aquamarine base units and white wall units & quartz worktop, I think it's going to look very clean and fresh, I bloody hope it's not going to be an expensive mistake!

As a teenager my parents let me paint the loft above my bedroom chocolate brown. I loved it! It was like climbing into a hidden tree house. It was my special retreat. I now realise that will probably be the only time I paint a room brown. I'm glad I did it.

I'd say navy is over. It's been done to death on Instagram. I think the people who have had navy kitchens installed are going to be regretting it soon

Why

If they like navy then they why would they regret it.

I like my pale grey cabinets. I looked at navy but it is a small room and would be too dark, hate brown and green will not be seen in my house. White shiny doors no matter how expensive looked like they were from B&Q off the shelf range and I don’t go for any weird and whacky colours.

Pale grey fits perfectly.

(I wouldn’t know what is done to death on instagram as I don’t have Instagram)

That trend is long long over. It’s been all about pastels/millennial and/or jewel tones for at least three years. Grey simply persists because people haven’t moved on yet, much like magnolia. Not even remotely on trend just a left over.

Gregory, I think people just don’t redorate often enough so the trends take longer to cycle through ‘normal’ homes. Plus, what’s ‘high end’ fashionable takes time to filter down (like in fashion). So you’re still seeing grey and navy in normal homes and home stores like Dunelm & Next.

That trend is long long over.
expect grey still dominates every bloody shop. You can't even buy tiles or a sofa without being offered all their various shades of grey!

I had a bright yellow kitchen when everyone was on shades of white. And a red feature wall in one bedroom, deep green in another. So it won't surprise you to know I had grey sofas when nobody else did about 20 years ago.
The question is what colour shall I do my new kitchen to be 10 years ahead of the pack? I'm thinking earthy, natural tones?

I think homes look better when they reflect the personality of their owners and are made to their taste. It doesn't say much of people who live in a cold bland showroom.

I'm with you 100%, OP - I absolutely loathe grey and it is soooooo unoriginal nowadays. It is truly the magnolia of its time, only worse because it's so institutional. But no-one wants to admit that.

Just checked Laura Ashley, they are still flogging the grey big style. I remember when they were out there with colour and patterns. Showing my age here.

The problem with fashion trends is that they dominate the magazines, shops, advertising so much that it is easy for things to grow on you that you don't actually like.

This 100%.

We are all subject to influence, however "unique" we think our taste is. (Actually I have no taste; every interior I touch invariably looks crap.)

The only way to get ahead of the game is to pick something that is utterly out of fashion, such as faux Regency veneered furniture, Draylon curtains, long cream shag-pile carpet and a liberal sprinkling of Royal Doulton figurines (mil's house...).

Yellow is my favourite colour but I'm going to wait until everyone else has stopped using it

That’s just bonkers. If you like it, do it. I’ve always decorated for myself and not what the fashions are. I’m sure I’ll xhoose different again in 30 years and that’s fine! I like grey and navy and so it’s for me, not for the fashion. I hate carpet and faux velvet but that’s me and if others like it then great

The oversaturation of grey makes me miss magnolia.

I think that awful super-dark blue is the new trend. Added bonus - so many more coats needed to paint over!

My DP and I don't agree on colours (he hates feature walls and 'pops' of colour) so everything is light blue. GREYISH light blue :)

(He did allow teal curtains, my favourite thing in the house. One day I will get my orange room)

I like having my house all neutral. With grey, beige, light cream colours. I've done all the bright colours and they feel cold and make me a bit agitated. Each to their own. I don't know why people have such a strong opinion on what other people do with the inside of their homes, it's strange.

Lots of grey in my house, including my kitchen units. Five years now, and I still love it. And don’t give a shit whether it’s gone out of fashion.

OP, if you don’t want to live with someone else’s choices, drop your house buying budget and save money for decorating - it’s that simple 🤷🏻‍♀️

God I hope brown comes into fashion big-time. Hoping to buy a house next year and it will be so much cheaper if someone has painted it all BROWN. 💩

grey still dominates every bloody shop. You can't even buy tiles or a sofa without being offered all their various shades of grey

Supply and demand... people want to buy grey stuff and the shops are selling it because the demand is there. I'm amused that people don't understand why so many people like grey. I mean it is a neutral, looks smart and modern and accessories can be used to add more colour or interest. Would much rather a grey home than yellow/blue/brown/jewel tones which all were around in the 90s/early 2000s and were pretty horrendous back then. My worst nightmare is a house with every room painted a different, loud colour. Or a "feature wall" of some garrish colour and the rest painted magnolia. Would put me on edge. But if that's how others want to live in their house then cool

Each to their own. I love grey. Others don't. There's no right or wrong and I think it's quite judgy to criticise other people's choice in decor.

Grey has become ubiquitous and dull. Like feature wall ten years ago.