AIBU to think grey decor is so dull?

[NachoNachoMan]

Looking at houses for sale. Not to move, just to have a nosy. There is so much grey! Is it just me or is it a bit boring and samey?

For example... I found this, and whilst it's a lovely house, the decor is so... grey and boring!

www.fineandcountry.com/uk/property-for-sale/richmond/kt8-9bs/1728661

It's like the photos have been taken with a b&w filter on!

There's so many of my friends who have painted a room / rooms / the whole house grey... but I love a bit of colour! Fine to want something neutral, but I think beige/creams are much nicer & warmer.

YABU = grey is great & less is more
YANBU = grey is dull, gimme some colour!

Why on earth would you buy a beautiful house like that and turn it into a glorified Barratt home? Just awful. Looks like a footballers house now.

I also like a bit of colour, but if I was buying a house, I wouldn’t be put off by grey as it’s nice and neutral. Be easy to move in and then decide what colours you need rather than thinking I need to start painting straightaway or ripping out advocating bathrooms. Especially if you don’t like grey so you won’t have grey furniture.

It's just fashion. We painted our living room light grey years ago. Had loads of people thinking it was weird and why would we choose grey etc. Role on a few years and the same people love it.

Grey is ok but can look like undercoat on doors and windows. It's the need for matching blandness everywhere that gets me. The way everyone seems to decorate in the same way. I thought Pinterest etc would mean a bit of variety. Apparently not.

Grey is just a neutral and done well can look great, but like anything else, not done well or too much, it won’t look great.

I’m not sure I’d call cream and beige colourful or exactly exciting stuff. For me that’s boring, and I don’t have grey in my home,

Personally I’m not a fan of very colourful rooms, unless it’s a bit of funky wallpaper, and much prefer softer tones.

That house linked is beautiful, I don’t think painting it cream and beige would make it all exciting but everyone’s tastes differ and clearly you do.

Generally when something becomes popular it’s because many people like it, people don’t decorate their homes in ways they dislike just because it’s trendy,

I really don’t get this thing on here of slagging off other people’s tastes. I’m guessing folks who do it aren’t sitting in tasteful awe inspiring homes either.

Love grey! I've recently discovered it. It goes with so many other colours.

I agree. Grey colour scheme is for people with no imagination

They've ruined that house!

Turned it into the biggest new build show home on the estate with everything modern (that kitchen!), tacky light fittings, all the soul removed. It does look like a footballer's house and maybe it is?

I don't think it works in that house. It was not a colour that would ever have been used in 1743. The entire style of the interior lacks sympathy with the interior of the house which needs pale yellows, blues or other Recency colours imo - not everywhere of course.

As a poster above said I find grey eternally depressing on the walls - said from a greying tweed sofa looking at a grey and stone printed armchair but the walls are pale, soft beige (Haybale) and the floor is oak.

We have had many colours in our house over the years but we are now having grey or cream walls everywhere. The reason for this is I can then add colours in rugs, homeware, cushions and throws. I can also add pattens when the walls are plain.
I can change my accessories as often as I like to whatever colour I like with no restriction from wallpaper colour.

Soon the nights are drawing in, time to put rugs down and I can change it all again.

I like shimmer grey as a base colour.
I like the different options and looks it can give a room. My main room is a silver grey shimmer wallpaper with a small hint of lilac. The rest of the room is burgundy, lilac and navy.
My middle room is a light grey wallpaper and the curtains ar e a light white and yellow print and the accessories are yellow and navy. It makes the room feel big and spacious. My reception room is a gloss grey wallpaper with forest green acceccsories.

Everyroom looks different and is decorated to suit it's purpose but it doesn't feel like a 'grey, boring house' well not to me anyway. I like it and I'm the one that lives with it.

You like what you like 🤷‍♀️

Grey paint and mustard (imho) will end up viewed as dating as wood chip or zany 70s wallpaper!
Yes it's nice, but I am avoiding it when decorating as don't want my decor to end up dated (I hate decorating!).
Plus it makes a lot of rooms just look so-samey. Since were spending more time at home for the foreseeable I want a more uplifting palette.

I have grey as the base colour throughout my house, but it did look dull so I have added blush pink cushions/accessories and much prefer it. I do like other colours though such as navy and my mum has just decorated her dining room and painted one wall in a teal/greenish wall and has accessories to match and it looks beautiful and modern, so next time I decorate i think I will experiment with different colours.

I don’t think anyone lives in the house. It has had a mediocre interior designer ‘stage’ it for sale. It also isn’t in Richmond. It is Hampton or Kingston at a push but not Richmond. Bloody misleading estate agents.

In the OP’s link the karate-chopped cushions are also of grave concern.

I know it's not the point but 7.5 mil and it's only semi detached?!!!

I don't mind grey walls if the rooms has a pop of colours. But all grey looks like a black and white movie and a bit corpsey. I like neutral walls but with warm undertones.

That house is a tragedy. The designer has no regard for the aesthetics of the building. I live in a listed building and if I painted it grey inside it would look terrible too.

Everyone likes different things and it seems a large number of people like being a part of whatever the current trend is.

I like a very rustic, cluttered look that would feel like I were living a hundred years ago or longer, with furs on the walls etc. My brother wants everything fully modern, integrated technology, and has a bright orange living room.

The key is to not care about what anyone else thinks and to make your home the type of space you feel happy living in.

That house isn't exactly full of grey they are just using it as mitral colour.

It's like the photos have been taken with a b&w filter on

That could apply to many houses, but I don't think it does to this one. Did you just feel like jumping on the bandwagon?

Most of my house is white and Downpipe by F&B. We absolutely love it and everyone who comes over says they love it and find it really striking and impactful. The kids rooms have grey walls and grey blinds, with fun brightly coloured complementary furniture. Had some estate agents over and they seemed to genuinely really like it.

The good thing with grey is that is can complement so many other colours really well ie navy, pink, purple, white, even orange. So the base colour of my whole house is grey, but we have different very subtle pops of colour in each room that make the house feel connected, clean and modern. I find with other bright colours it can be really hard to find shades that go nicely with it.

Our bedroom is inky blue, white and grey with tiny accents of pink, and I love love it.

So YABU IMO!

YANBU. I’ve never understood the fashion for it - not in a country where on so many days you only have to look out of the window!

Could perhaps understand it more in a country where there’s relentless burning sun for much of the year - I’ve lived in one of those.

I like grey but don't have it completely all over the house, and don't like grey curtains or blinds, that's one step too far.

I just dislike chintzy, cottagey, a beamed ceiling would give me nightmares! So grey with some other colours to me is classy and restful.

Maybe grey is out of fashion now... I'm old and cream and peach were the colours to have in the 80s... horrible. Oh, and stencilling borders on the walls... I got really good at it, nowhere now

Didn't Mrs Hinch start the trend? Or did she just take it to depressing new levels.

Even if you like grey that house is so boring, there's not even any prints on the walls or accent cushions.

I have grey carpets and a grey sofa and considering a grey hall. That's it though!

I wonder if it is more a British thing.

No, I’ve watched the HGTV programmes “Property Brothers”, “Masters of Flip” and Scott McIvray - they all do grey in Canada or the US. Often, the houses Drew Scott shows buyers are grey too. The Property Brothers frequently tell the vendors to paint over bright colours with something neutral, to sell their house quickly!