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.

I'm about to replace my beige-ish carpets with grey. My home won't be grey though. The walls are a light pure yellow. The two bathrooms and kitchen floors are vivid yellow, turquoise and blue respectively.

For me grey is not a colour, it's is just an alternative to white for the parts of the room that aren't going to have colour. One can't colour the whole room. For example, in the bathrooms, I could have chosen custom colours for the "tiled" wall, the painted wall and the cabinets. But I didn't, they are all white. And the counter is grey. Because the colour is in the floor, which is more than enough colour for the whole room.

White is not a very practical colour for carpets, so mine will be grey. The 30 different shades of beige that make up most of the options for carpet colours all clash with yellow walls, I think.

I like grey as a neutral with loads of bright colours against it. My family room is grey with purple rug, turquoise pictures, oak wooden floors and a big warm wooden table. Loads of colour. My living room is dark green (F&B Calke Green) with dark blues and duck egg and a bright yellow chair, but one sofa is grey. My bedroom is a dark powder blue (F&B Drawing Room Blue) with duck egg accents. It sounds vile but looks beautiful! The kitchen is teal (F&B Vardo).

Grey has been everywhere for so long that I actually welcome the return of magnolia.

Houses that are being stripped of all their character, inside and out, around here are all grey on the outside with doors that look like the entrance to an office or spa. No imagination any more it seems. Inside there are no walls, just a big shiny space with a hideous shiny red kitchen which would actually look better in a muted grey.

We're looking to move house. So many grey houses. We'd offer less on them because to be frank I just couldn't live in an all grey house and would have get it redecorated.

What are people’s thoughts on F&B Ammonite?

It's grey

I wish the grey phase would hurry up and pass
Its dull and always reminds me of my school uniform as a child

I could never understand why grey became such a ‘thing’ in a country where on so many days you only have to look out of the window.

There’s no accounting for fashion - except of course that designers/manufacturers are endlessly looking for the next new ‘thing’ which will persuade millions of people to go and spend their money on it.

Could say the same for the ‘hygge’ thing - ‘How can we get them all to go and buy lots of new throws and candles in the belief that it’s something new? I know, what about that Scandi word - anything Scandi always goes down well!’
(Not that I’m a horrible cynic or anything...).

I don’t like the grey trend at all, but the grey children’s bedrooms/playrooms/nurseries are particularly depressing

As a teenager my dad for a hobby made huge model warships and liked to test them for water tightness in the bath. Seemed like my entire teenager years I couldn't have a bath as there was a fucking grey battleship stopping me. I remember feeling deeply pissed off the boat got to soak in the bath and I couldn't. Consequently I hate grey and do not have any in my house.

Never understood the fad for grey. It's just so dreary.
This house was all grey downstairs when I moved in four years ago. Within six months it was all gone. I hate it.
Next door on both sides have painted their fences grey. How to turn a nice garden into a prison yard in one easy step.

Yes so sick of it!
It's concrete and it's office style it's not homely at all !
I know people who have covered lovely wooden floors in shiny grey carpet throughout the house looks terrible !
I will join you in this😃 I also hate fake grass

Our bedroom is grey and I do like the colour. We bought a grey bed and the room already had a very pale grey carpet. What I don't like is the great wallpaper and the grey sofa we have. The sofa is a lovely style buy I wanted to go for one in blush or yellow but dh is so conservative when it comes to the use of colour. I need to change the wallpaper, any suggestions on colours that would compliment grey would be great! I also need to get some curtains and cushions for the bedroom to breathe life into it.

My whole house is grey the walls are white I love grey I think if you like to see a bit of colour grey goes with pretty much every colour so you could have diff colour curtains or cushions

This sort of grey is good if you have the property to suit it (high ceilings, period features etc). Fluffy sparkly grey interiors - no. Not my thing at all.

And no, adding a "pop" of colour doesn't help. It's still fecking grey. Might as well put lipstick on an elephant.

All nasty vertical blinds need to be burned too. It's not a dentist's office.

@TheFaerieQueene I really don't think that is the property for grey though. That lovely room deserves something rich and colourful and celebratory of its grandeur, not the colour scheme of HMP Brixton.

What are people’s thoughts on F&B Ammonite?

I've just done my bedroom walls in F&B Ammonite as a temporary measure until the decorator can hang my wallpaper (which is not grey). The room is actually not looking grey at all, its more of a greige. The walls look lovely. Really calming and warm, particularly in the evenings by lamplight. I've contemplated not hanging the wallpaper. The room however has high ceilings and a picture rail so there is a lot of off white in there too, plus it's South facing dual aspect with very large french doors so its very light and bright. Plus the views out of the window are woodland and so theres a lot of borrowed green in the room. So Ammonite gets the thumbs up from me.

On my landing (north facing) F&B Ammonite looks very different. I put a patch up as a tester and decided it comes up too grey for most of the day until the sun hits it a little in the evening for about an hour as it goes down.

I love grey, but it has to be styled well with good accent colours.

I hate the Mrs Hinch cookie cutter grey on grey on sparkles on grey look.

I hate grey so much. We looked at a house that was just grey everywhere, the estate agent was keen to point out how fashionable and classy it was. Even the kid's bedroom was grey, how depressing. We declined making an offer. The house we bought was full of flowery wallpaper which I also hate but is much easier to live with until you can decorate. We do have a grey sofa but it's a pale grey and sits nicely with our sunshine yellow walls and oak flooring and we chose it because we thought it would work rather than because it's fashionable.

I like grey but it needs to be paired with something else. I’m currently decorating my office and I’m doing three walls grey but one a nice navy with blush pink accents. The furniture is sort of ‘industrial’, warm wood with black metal legs, etc.

Mrs Hinch style grey everywhere is so dreary.

This sort of grey is good if you have the property to suit it (high ceilings, period features etc).

But a rich colour would be so much better. That looks like a black and white photo which has had the guitar and rug colourised.

I love grey but don't see a vast amount of it anymore.
It was all dark blue for a long time, either Hague or Inchyra.
Now there's an awful lot of green and pink everywhere. So many people painting their front doors Frenchic pink.

I'd never heard of Mrs Hinch ... from a quick look she's someone whose business is tips on cleaning and tidiness, who therefore promotes a style and lack-of-colour schemes which are not cosy and homelike (and yet without the chic of minimalism) and which require a hell of a lot of cleaning and tidying to look vaguely ok. Is that about right?

I've been trying to.buy a new sofa and the choices are far more limited if you don't want grey ( I don't). It drives me nuts.