Fed up of seeing Bars in people's gardens?

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Anyone else think they are as tacky as hell 🤢

YABU- let people do what they want in their gardens
YANBU- I agree, chavvy AF

Ha, the word ‘hair’ would be needed there in regards to her collarbone length extensions!
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Luckily, I haven’t come across any where we live.

i’ve always understood chavvy to mean flashy and showy, nothing to do with class.

It's their neighbour's business if they then have loud parties most weekends.

That said, you don't need a bar in your garden to have a loud party in your garden every weekend.

I love my dads one (it's a full brick building so noise contained). It was a lifesaver in lockdown and we gather in there as a family every Sunday afternoon for darts and drinks.
My mum credits it with saving her marriage as my dad goes up there to have a drink / listen to his music (again full building so no more sound leakage than in the house).

Never been much worried by what people think of me and neither are the rest of the family thankfully.

@Punkypinky where do I apply to join your family please 😀

I don't see that they're any different to an "outside kitchen", BBQ or any other outside entertaining space really.

i can absolutely see how they would have been amazing during lockdown.

I feel sorry for their neighbours

The OP has "v fun and wild parties" without a bar so really hasn't a leg to stand on.

By that standard, the Queen is the worst chav of all. Buckingham Palace isn't exactly modest.

Stop nosing in other people's gardens you absolute weirdo 😂

Personally garden bars are not for me, however if others wish to have them then that has no affect on my life whatsoever.

I’ve heard the couple at the end of the street has one but I’m yet to be invited!
never actually seen one in person, I think I’m missing out.
we have an outdoor kitchen and a hot tub though so hopefully well on my way to an outdoor bar 😂

When I think chav I picture a Croyden facelift (which I'm sporting today myself in work as it's so hot)

I judge anyone who has put one in their garden. Not for being "chavvy" but for the likelihood of being people who like to "enjoy" their outdoor spaces. By which I mean having regular boozy parties. Of course they are entitled to do so, but it's horrible living near people like that as you simply can't avoid their noise, and as people who live any where near outdoor events, noise really does travel a long way. And before posters say the usual "well, if you don't like neighbour noise move to the country", noise travels particularly far in rural areas, as my rural friends being kept awake for hours by outdoor events will attest.

Well said. I have never seen a bar in a garden, and would not be overly fussed if a neighbour had one, as long as there wasn't a party every night. The faux snobbiness in this chat has been on overdrive.

I don’t have any friends with a garden bar or hot tub.
I imagine it might be quite nice to have a garden the size of a small park suitable for entertaining but I don’t think the OP is referring to the lucky few.
Putting a bar and hot tub in a small/normal sized garden and pissing off all the neighbours with ‘fun’ outdoor parties every weekend is just wrong.

Putting a bar and hot tub in a small/normal sized garden and pissing off all the neighbours with ‘fun’ outdoor parties every weekend is just wrong.

But the hot tub and bar have no bearing on whether it's wrong or not. A "fun out door party" is just as annoying without them if they are every weekend.

Crankley and Itloggedmeoutagain...

I don't understand responses like 'It's none of your business' and 'Why does it bother you?' in these threads. The OP is expressing an opinion and seeing what other people think.

Of course she has no control over what happens in someone else's garden- that's not the point. I've just watched my previous NDN's entire garden (lovely paving slabs, mature shrubs and perennials, rambling roses, wisteria - which will all have taken years to grow) chucked into a skip. I'll confess I'm dreading what will replace them because I'll have to look at it and it could impact me in other ways too. So I hope that answers the 'Why does it bother you?' question. That's why it bothers me! Instead of a lovely mature courtyard garden with bees and butterflies I may have to have someone's bar or hot-tub at least in my peripheral vision, along with the accompanying noise.

If we kept our utterances limited to what is strictly our business, there'd be very little discussion or conversation at all...and it does impact you if people turn their gardens into outdoor living rooms - it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Of course we can't control it - so venting is allowed, surely?

There's venting and then there's calling people 'chavvy' and 'tacky' for having different taste to you.

I wouldn't have one, more so because I'm skint, don't drink and don't ever have any friends around 😅

but don't really have an opinion on other people having them!

my parents made a make shift bar in their front room 😅 they've removed it now but it used to make me chuckle when I visited (it was after I moved out)

My cousin built one and I'm a bit envious tbh as he has great parties. Also a bit envious of his construction a abilities!

Bar in garden = fun AF party hosts.

Long love the tiki bar!

Chavvy AF but think the trend grew over Lockdown so can't really blame people for not having demolished then yet if they serve a purpose/spent money on them