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!

That house looks so fresh and clean it's lovely. Grey is a good base colour for adding pops of colour. Goes well with anything really. Beige and cream is far too 90s rental for me

I find pale grey/white to show up marks/scuffs really easily. It looks okay new or spotlessly clean but otherwise looks tired or dirty.

Nothing wrong with another thread on a talking debating forum about grey

But comments like this one:
Wolfgirrl
Yep I agree. Grey, white, mirrored furniture and crushed velvet 🤢 makes every room look like a mortuary, it is the palette of the unimaginative and people who have sex ponds in the garden.

We live in a modern (but not new build) house which I found really hard to decorate when we moved in. Anything a bit rustic or vintagey looks wrong and pretentious, but anything too modern made it look naff and chavvy.

are why people get angry about threads talking about others decor. It should be discussed and the pics are always interesting but there is absolutely no need to be so sneery.

it is the palette of the unimaginative and people who have sex ponds in the garden

This is a prime example of it. Hurling abuse at strangers for their interior decor choices.

Why? Just why?

No disrespect Bluntness but you are on here every day making much harsher comments than that.

It was obviously just a joke.

🤷‍♀️

It does feel like you're seeing everything in black and white and I wonder if this is a reason for it not selling?

I doubt it. A builder bought a house in this road. He built two 4 bedroom semis on the side garden. They decorated all three houses grey and white. The semis have no garage and practically no garden - they’ve sold quickly for £725,000!

It's conventional, I think. The trend is getting towards using more colour and in a few years they'll be reflecting that. I think you're just a bit ahead of the trend!!

@Bluntness100

I don’t get the strength of emotion Behind it, the amount of hate and venom people spit about other folks interior decor on all these threads.

For me, it’s meh not to my taste but each to their own, but on mumsnet there seems to be a large amount of people spewing bile about how some folks choose to decorate their own homes. It’s very odd.

I think with the particularly venomous posts there is more to it than just disliking grey/kitchen islands/bi folds/plantation shutters (whatever the thread of choice for slagging of interiors is on any given day). If you are secure and content in your home you don’t need to write spiteful posts about other people’s choice in decor, you can just look at it objectively and think, not my cup of tea but each to their own. I sometimes think that threads like these attract some people who are jealous of other people having a nice house and coming on here to put other people’s choices down makes them feel better about their own situation, they are sometimes started after being to a friends house I’ve noticed......

Actually in response to the wolfgirll quote above - I find that exquisite design from any century or decade blends well. It is the naff of each period that doesn't. If you buy what you love it will work. If you buy for effect or to contrive, it will not.

I think with the particularly venomous posts there is more to it than just disliking grey/kitchen islands/bi folds/plantation shutters (whatever the thread of choice for slagging of interiors is on any given day). If you are secure and content in your home you don’t need to write spiteful posts about other people’s choice in decor, you can just look at it objectively and think, not my cup of tea but each to their own. I sometimes think that threads like these attract some people who are jealous of other people having a nice house and coming on here to put other people’s choices down makes them feel better about their own situation, they are sometimes started after being to a friends house I’ve noticed......

nice goady post

or maybe it's just irritation as being unable to find anything that is not bloody grey when you are trying to get some work done in your own home...

I love how it's spiteful to be negative towards "grey" but absolutely fine to mock other dated styles.. these threads always touch a nerve with some grey lovers, which is hardly surprising seeing how grey is absolutely everywhere and half of MN posters must live in grey.

I love grey as a base colour but with other colours to liven it up. Grey goes with everything from pastels to brights. I liked it before it became popular though.

I sometimes think that threads like these attract some people who are jealous of other people having a nice house and coming on here to put other people’s choices down makes them feel better about their own situation, they are sometimes started after being to a friends house I’ve noticed

Agree, it’s fairly clear those folks being venomous aren’t living in something better than the homes they are slagging off.

or maybe it's just irritation as being unable to find anything that is not bloody grey when you are trying to get some work done in your own home...

I think we all know that’s nonsense, you can get anything done in any colour you want. And I mean any colour, any pattern, you can get it.

Which tells us all you’ve not tried and are upset about folks mocking “dated styles” using your own words.

Omg to 'pops of colour' 😤

To each her own. Personally, I wouldn’t want grey everywhere, but we have grey kitchen cupboards and I love the way they look. The walls are pale yellow which I think makes a nice contrast.

YANBU

I painted my living room grey and now I regret it. It looks gloomy.

I've been having a nosy at houses online too, the random feature walls are not my cup of tea. I like cream everywhere, which I'm sure others hate.

It's quite sad really that we all try our best and the next person to move in undoes it all.

YANBU I like neutral creams/beiges..even white and even a white kitchen with touches of grey and then add the colour in the artwork.

Bluntness100
if that makes you feel better to feel that way, I won't stop you .

Anyone who has had to redo a few rooms or so in the last couple of years knows what I mean anyway.

Our home has pink sofas and green walls, I'm not sure I would ever be chic enough for grey minimalism but I do fight and abolish clutter.

Grey is lovely

I would love to paint an ombré wall. There are some gorgeous examples on Pinterest. Maybe a nice sunset effect.

I find grey depressing, but combined with beige I quite like it. There are different tones of grey of course, some 'happier' than others.

Once grey turns into blue I really like it.

Anyone who has had to redo a few rooms or so in the last couple of years knows what I mean anyway

I’ve been renovating our house for six years now, and I’ve no grey anywhere, not the walls, carpets, blinds, soft furnishings, bedding, not one bit. Where are you that you can only buy grey stuff?

Hate grey and beige together and I don't care how modern it is but I really don't think it goes. Imo it should be grey and a colour or beige and a colour and never mix the two.