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?

I don't think the rendering would bother me, but the grey... ugh.

It's everywhere!! It's like the whole country has forgotten there are any other colours! My neighbours have installed grey window frames, painted their fences grey, had a grey door put in, even painted the kid's climbing frame grey.

It looks like a black and white photo 😂

Sam with us. Perfectly nice 1930's house, looks like an angry thunderous sky in our road.

Maybe they have done it in response to the heat waves of last year. Red brick absorbs a lot of heat and lighter grey may reflect some of it and the shutters if used will surely help keep rooms a bit cooler.

I love shutters. I've lived in 6 different countries and have had shutters in all of them. Sometimes I add flowy white sheers as well and curtains with some. It all depends. They are great for close up and leave. I guess I love the tidiness of them. I hate looking at houses with curtains all hodge podge. I'm driving into London tomorrow - cue lots of horrors.

That stuff is even more expensive than render and also used to cover external insulation. After reading this thread and how much removal could cost, i may not bother having any external installed on the sides or back. Internal wherever possible and if that leaves cold areas where nothing is installed then it will still be better than nothing.

I don’t care what people do with the inside of their houses, we all have our preferences and I don’t have to look at it, but when someone destroys the character of a house on the outside I have to endure it or avert my eyes from the horror in front of me.

Render is not exactly a new thing. And it can be painted any colour. So no, there is no reason it should date. You just don’t like it so want to validate your own point of view.

Pebbledash is an original feature of some 1930s houses. I live on a street of those.

That was in reply to @onemouseplace

I find it generally weird when people don’t work with the era of their house. Why buy a Victorian house and rip the features out? That style will look much better on a modern house. Madnesss

So what’s the issue, uplighters, rendering, shutters. All fine, they can repaint quite inexpensively. The only thing is the grey frames maybe and that remains to be seen.

youre posting like you render and shutter and uplight and need to live with it forever.

I have seen the weetabix type of pebbledash covering half of the house. I agree that it is fine if it was there from the start.

The people who moved into my grandmother’s house did this, put in dark grey windows in an entire estate of lovely brick houses with white windows. It stands out like a sore thumb. They also removed every plant, tree and living thing in a mature garden and put down fake lawn so utterly confirmed to me what shit taste they have.

Yep, anything that is 'of the moment' will date very quickly

@Floraanddougal You can paint the render, but it is very expensive to remove so you do have to live with it.

I watched one of those makeover programmes once and it was on an ex council estate type of place with your typical bog standard houses - they painted the house dark slate grey and put in bright orange window frames 😱

I don’t like the look at all. So boring!

Also hated the trend, a few years ago when everything was all Cath Kidston, for taking vintage wooden furniture & painting it white in the French country style. Ruining a perfectly nice chest of drawers...

The rendering yes - I like grey window frames though and as others have said, easily replaced!

But that’s not really an issue unless it was a priceless antique, you don’t have to look at it and it doesn’t destroy the character of a street.

Iwatched one of those makeover programmes once and it was on an ex council estate type of place with your typical bog standard houses - they painted the house dark slate grey and put in bright orange window frames
I think I saw that show.

Are you thinking of this house?
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/8693148/ugly-house-lovely-house-couple-slammed-orange-windows/

What is render?

The stone pebbles dash stuff?

1930s sounds fairly modern to someone born in the 1970s like me. But then you do a bit of maths and realise that actually it’s coming up to 100 years old, and the houses when I was a kid in the 80s that were that a century old were definitely not “modern”, they were 1890s terraces etc. Considered older at the time.

so that’s what our 1930s houses are coming to now. In my area a lot of the housing stock is that age. Nearly a century old is not what I’d call modern housing stock.

snap. not my road but one of the lovely roads with beautiful old houses, all names and dated. Being snapped up and converted to shoddy flats, horrid exte signs and those horrid, metal bar doors. Extra horrid if it has those words semicircle windows. just horrible.

there is one house having work done on it, initially I sighed, but they are extending in the style of the house and keeping what they can. I'm always pleased when I pass.

Yes that was it. Nice couple and I was glad they liked the outcome, but I wouldn't want to live opposite that. It looks a bit like a lego house.

I'm pretty boring though and not keen on modern looking boxy houses with glass balconies.

I was going to say this, the ‘all grey’ trend is very 5 years ago now. All the Instagram influencer types are doing everything beige and neautral now.