Is anyone else sick of the sight of grey?

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We bought a house 6 months ago. Needs new everything, carpets, kitchen, bathroom etc.

We needed new sofas as well

Everything is grey. There are various different shades and shapes but grey.

Grey fucking grey.

Even trying to get curtains 294782927 grey.

Even buying baby toys for the baby. Grey play mats ffs.
Grey ball pits?! With grey balls?!

I used to like grey.

Grey is fine if it is used appropriately as one of a variety of colours in a house but I HATE HATE HATE the grey 'trend' and by that I mean grey carpets, grey walls, grey cushions with a token beige one to show a little imagination. Urgh.

..and grey baby's nurseries/children's rooms! Just seems so sad..putting style over making the room fun.

I agree, people follow trends instead of setting their own. I love colour and grey will never be part of my colour scheme.

İ like royal blue and rose gold and dusty pink. This is the colour scheme i want for my bedroom Ifni ever get to buy a house and stop renting! Blue walls. Rose gold framed mirror and table. Dusty pink velvet chair and pouffe? Stool. :)

Even worse is that some people think ochre is a nice contrast to the ubiquitous grey - like you haven't turned on the lights yet but you see that the baby shat some mustard on your cushions and rug.

Yes I've tried to get beige cushions and couldn't!! It's all grey

Oh and duck egg blue for the downstairs with white. But slightly different shades of duck. İt's my favourite colour.

Ochre is nice with royal blue!

I hate grey interior design. Makes me feel depressed. Paint it all OP!

Givingup123456 that's sounds lovely 😊 I might have to steal your idea I hope you don't mind!

My DD has just chosen grey for her room. It will look nice, I think. There are so many greys though, not just one.

I'm not bothered what colours people paint their walls but I'm pissed off by the lack of selection when it comes to sofas. We need a new one and so many only come in grey or at a push beige. It's annoying.

I don't like the grey trend either. It's not so bad when it's used as a base for other colours but the multiple shades of grey in one room is really drab.
I felt really sad when my niece sent me photos of her new baby's nursery and everything was grey and white (yes even the ball pool) It just looked so clinical and nothing for baby to look at..

@Givingup123456 I like duck egg. I did my kitchen in that and it looks really nice. Hope you manage to get your own place so you can have the bedroom you want. We bought a couple of years ago and I painted the bedroom lilac because that was the colour I wanted when I started thinking about how I'd do a bedroom years previously but in the intervening time was unable to buy. So yes it's completely out of date, no one else has a lilac bedroom any more, but I do and it's a big "fuck you, finally this is mine" lilac. In my head anyway lol.

Hate, hate, hate grey. Love, love, love colour.

I hired an interior designer to help with a battered old house purchase. Lovely young lady. Answer: Farrow and Ball grey - everywhere. I obeyed. It's so depressing. But a good backdrop. I guess.

Will be going back to chintz, 90s yellow and pattern as soon as we can afford it.

Grey has been the go to neutral for about a decade. We are all just bored of it now.

I wouldn’t put grey anywhere now. It’s about to look dated.

An all grey home looks like purgatory or death’s waiting room. My DS wanted his whole room done in grey and it’s so depressing. I chuck in yellow blankets and red beanbags to perk it up a bit, but all I really want to do is paint it turquoise.

It’s a hell of a lot better than beige. We’re house hunting at the moment and my heart sinks every time I see a bathroom with those enormous beige tiles. Unfortunately it’s nearly all of them. I’ve resigned myself to having to retile the next bathroom.

Yy jewel colours are the rising stars.

But can I find a teal sofa in the style I want? No I fucking cannot. And by the time I do, jewel colours will be the new grey. It's a problem.

I have a love/hate relationship with it, but I wouldn't consider decorating my main living spaces in it, it's too depressing. Save it for bathrooms, bedrooms and hallways.

I love grey, it is a great base colour and matches plenty of other colours, pinks, mustard, jewel tones....I don't like red in houses, much harder to match and I'm sure houses with neutral tones sell more easily but it is personal opinion

I once rented a house with a red living room. It was like being in a placenta.

I like white as a backdrop with some grey is great. Its about injecting colour elsewhere eg orange and purple tartan cushions and curtains and same colours in artwork in the living room with bronze mirrors and window decor. Grey, white and red and driftwood in kitchen. The nursery I get you but grey and white cloud bedding really works as a neutral with a multicoloured (mainly green) forest themed mural on the wall. Then again I do have one room that is literally every colour ( thread wallpaper) on one wall and white on the others so it’s not like grey has to be in all rooms. Caramel also works as a good variant neutral to throw in with white and grey to get an overall cohesion.

I like it in moderation, it can look modern and fresh with bold colours but not in a whole house and for every surface and accessory. When I moved into my flat I got a grey front door that online looked really contemporary but in reality looks like a cell door.

I've read every post and the word grey has now lost all meaning 😂

The baby thing bothers me. Our house is pretty quirky and mismatched so I'm not that fussed about our big garish playmat etc. I might feel differently if I'd painstakingly picked a colour scheme etc but DD loves bright colours and loved contrasts on her mats and mobiles when she was younger. All my friends seem to have grey nurseries, grey play mate, grey knitted baby toys. It must have been so boring for the newborns to look at.

On the other hand maybe it's actually genius and their babies will have super nuanced vision 😁