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To not understand the Hinch/grey everything trend?

225 replies

SaintyouAint · 07/10/2020 17:01

I just don't understand the attraction. Why is everyone so obsessed with Mrs Hinch and having every inch of their house grey so it looks like a negative? Is it just me who's miserable or something.. I just don't understand it!

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mathanxiety · 07/10/2020 20:04

I would prefer a true grey - maybe a light dove grey - to what my landlord put on the walls (a neutral grey-green throughout) because the cooler grey would enhance the quality of the light indoors and suit my furniture and accessories much better.

I like Mrs Hinch's cheerful disposition and admire her industriousness. Not as keen on her decor, but to each her own.

Titsywoo · 07/10/2020 20:04

@FrankieChips

It looks really tacky. A few houses around here have painted the front of their houses grey, paved over the garden and no flowers. Looks awful. These are 1930s houses so they look lovely with a garden.
This is something I do hate. Houses that are painted grey look very Eastern-bloc and on my street everyone is paving their front gardens so they are all driveway. It looks a bit depressing - I love lots of greenery on a road.
Janegrey333 · 07/10/2020 20:07

@FoxtrotEcho

Anything too matchy-matchy looks weird in my opinion.

But people like what they like. If wall-to-wall grey and silver makes you happy, then knock yourself out. I love seeing what different people make of their homes.

It’s better if rooms are allowed to evolved, I think. If everything looks as if it comes from the one place and it all matches, the room seems to lack personality.
DianaT1969 · 07/10/2020 20:07

Mrs H certainly has a tenacious marketing team working on MN. It's about 1 in 5 posts on my threads now.
I never thought I'd miss the day that product placement was smattered across MN by Saltwater sandals. 🤣

Janegrey333 · 07/10/2020 20:08

EVOLVE not evolved

PattyPan · 07/10/2020 20:10

What I actually dislike more than grey is the trend for diy fake panelling, it always looks awful especially in a non-period property!

daisychain01 · 07/10/2020 20:11

@Byllis

Couldn’t care less how people decorate their own homes, but the trend of painting the exterior of entire buildings dark grey should be outlawed!
A house has recently been completely gutted/renovated in the next village to us, it's quite a modern, boxy property, they've painted the outside completely grey with dark grey tiled roof and Venetian blinds at all the front windows.

Normally I wouldn't like that 'look' at all, but I have to say, it looks stunning. Probably not how I would decorate a house as I prefer warmer colours, but it is a vaste improvement on what was there before!

Stripesnomore · 07/10/2020 20:12

Apparently she makes five grand a video, not including product promotions.

Janegrey333 · 07/10/2020 20:15

@HesterShaw1

Even the word grey makes me think of John Major.

It's a bland bland word.

Grey always makes me think of school uniforms!
lazylinguist · 07/10/2020 20:16

I like grey, but I don't like Mrs Hinch's style of decor at all.

Janegrey333 · 07/10/2020 20:19

Mrs H is a cleaning lady not an interior decorator. And it shows.

Cocolapew · 07/10/2020 20:22

I've just had a nosey at her Instagram, surely she used a grey filter or something? Even the small bits of colour, such as labels on cans or greenery, look very dull.

JalapenoDave · 07/10/2020 20:24

I haven't a clue who Mrs Hinch is but I've had my house recently decorated and the majority of the walls are grey. Simply because it is easy to accessorise. I like to complimemt it with pops of colour Smile

hammeringinmyhead · 07/10/2020 20:25

@Stripesnomore

Apparently she makes five grand a video, not including product promotions.
She'll be raking it in. She's under Gleam, the same management company as Zoella, Doesmybumlook40/Kat Farmer, Mother Pukka, etc. Just another influencer.
PhilSwagielka · 07/10/2020 20:26

Loads of footballers have these super immaculate grey and white houses and they all look exactly the same, not like people live in them at all, even when the players have kids. It's kind of eerie. I remember Steven Gerrard's house looked like that. Apparently the WAGs spend all day keeping the house nice for hubby or presumably have servants to do it.

I don't get the appeal but tbh I've never followed Mrs Hinch anyway. I haven't got the energy to go round prettying everything up and I like colour.

Therarestone · 07/10/2020 20:38

Is anyone forcing you to decorate your house Grey? No? Then move on with your life.

Destinysdaughter · 07/10/2020 20:42

I'm on the FB group and although I agree they look quite stylish, to me it would be too cold and sterile. Give me colours any day!

Lolwhat · 07/10/2020 20:51

Not interested in mrs hinch but do love a grey room, I’ve had my bedroom blush pink and grey for the spring summer but have changed the curtains for autumn winter and going with deep oranges and mustards for the rest of the year, it’s one of my guilty pleasures🤣

Didiusfalco · 07/10/2020 20:52

I don't understand the magnolia bashing from all the grey lovers - its only what grey will become soon enough Confused. I feel like any shade everywhere is a bit boring, why not a bit of grey in one room then something else in another?

CuntyMcBollocks · 07/10/2020 20:59

I don't even know who Mrs Hinch is. I've heard the name, but that's it. As for grey everything, I don't get it either. I think a bit of grey as a neutral colour is fine, but I find a room looks very clinical and uninviting if literally everything is the same colour. But each to their own - thats just my personal opinion. If it makes other people happy, then good for them!

mathanxiety · 07/10/2020 21:01

@oakleaffy
YYY to your opinion of those imperious commands on walls.

CuntyMcBollocks · 07/10/2020 21:02

And I bloody LOATHE magnolia with a passion!!!!

feistyoneyouare · 07/10/2020 21:33

I don't understand the magnolia bashing from all the grey lovers

Magnolia just seems like a non-colour 'safe' choice to me, and to my eyes it can look dingy even when it's fresh on. I find it depressing personally. If I was going for a neutral I'd prefer to just use white for a crisper look.

To be fair, though, DH and I like stronger colours than would be to many people's tastes. We have one grey room but even that has a purple contrast wall. Very little white to be seen and zero magnolia. When we had our house redecorated a few years ago the painter remarked he'd never worked on a house before where so many different colours were used. Grin It wouldn't be to everyone's liking.

Jakobabear · 07/10/2020 21:43

Does it really matter what colour someone else's house is? I couldn't care less what colour next doors lounge or kitchen is because it's none of my business. I'm not an avid fan of Mrs Hinch but having seen her on tv last week speaking about the hate she gets I'm starting to understand it with some of the comments on here.

xanthippe8 · 07/10/2020 21:48

I'm well old and have lived with loads of different colour schemes, I always end up going back to magnolia...it's warm and sort of 'disappears', I get bored with more prominent colours. As a pp said, grey reminds me of school uniform and the 1980's!