To think these houses will soon look dated?

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Our neighbour has a detached 1930s red brick house that he slapped grey rendering over, outside uplighters, plantation shutters and grey pvc windows.
AIBU for thinking this will be the avocado baths of the future that many people dislike?

Definitely! I always think this when I see colourful cladding on houses

Yes our neighbour has done this, it looks awful

It kills me a little bit inside when I see red brick houses destroyed like that with render or paint.

Yes. Why would you paint your house dark grey? horrible!

Yes, absolutely.

And you can compromise the brick by painting over it.

The poor house

Plantation shutters are easily removed if they're not your style, but I agree about the rest and also think it's terrible for long term value of the property. I've seen a few period houses near us destroyed in exactly this way. It already looks a bit cheap IMO.

They already look dated tbh.

It's the new pebbledash.

Depends if, it's done well, looks good. Better than worn out bricks

Yes agreed. The everything-grey trend is very ugly and even more of a shame when they take a period property and completely ruin it.

I agree. And often with grey gravel out the front too! It’s a bad look.

Its very popular round my way too, breaks my soul a little bit everytime I see yet another house has had it done.
It will be like the fake tutor wooden rendering on the front of houses we saw in the 80's

Grey isnt my favourite but it can be painted over.

Ive spent ages trying work out how to insulate my 1930s house when we had one. It wasnt suitable for cavity wall, internal would make the rooms small. There were some insulating renders that were supposed to be good.

tudor not tutor

As pp have said, you can take down the plantation shutters, but all the dark grey rendering, windows and doors will be harder to undo and very unpleasant to live with. Some of our neighbours have done this and their houses look so ugly and foreboding.

The render will not be great for the bricks if they were in good condition as any removal will damage them.

Lovely large Victorian house near me 1.5million, painted cream with dark grey window frames (look like ££££ expensive replica sash windows) was on market for ages and finally sold for below asking. The new owners have just had the windows painted white. Cant do much about the bland walls though. Looks like they are planting climbers to break it down a bit.

Yes I was thinking recently that the neighbours is already starting to look dated. Which has completely put me off as I did consider it myself at one point.

It is fine if you like it, everyone has different tastes. But it seems a trend that I think will quickly date.

Grey is the equivalent of 80’s plastic wood grain windows

I admit I do not see the point of the external uplighters either. But they are easily removed.

There's a beautiful Edwardian detached house near me, they've put dark grey render on the outside walls, just ruining the lovely stonework. They've also ripped out the beautiful wooden front door and put an ugly grey one on with a massive vertical metal bar on as some sort of mad handle. Looks like a Stasi headquarters.

YANBU.

We never buy anything “fashionable”
for our house. We just decorate it the way that we like. Anything to “now” will look dated almost as soon as it is finished. See also: media walls with fake fireplaces installed under the TV

I really like it and prefer it to drab old samey bricks.

So many houses in my area has this exact look done 5 years ago. All the people renovating now seem to be cleaning up brickwork instead and it looks lovely.