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 work in renovation/construction. I’ve used a grey palette for interiors quite a lot in some locations as it’s what sells, even though it can look like a B/W photo. I’ve found out the hard way that subtle and tasteful neutrals are just not cutting it in the markets we work in. Not my style though, I’m a huge lover of brights, particularly orange 😁

I expect he or she will have sold for a decent profit and moved on by that so ultimately it'll be worth it and a good decision for them. If they like the look themselves which presumably they do then mores the better. Around here, albeit it isn't my taste either, that would sell very quickly.

Who knows what will or won't be popular in the future. I've always preferred rickety old character houses or red brick but each to their own.

I think a lot of the Pinteresty samey things people are doing to their victorian/edwardian terraces will date just as quickly, if they've not already.

Anything, except pebbledash.

This.

Half our street looks like this. And those bloody awful prison doors. Awful.

We live on a road with lots of lovely Victorian house. Some new neighbours a year or so ago have painted there’s dark grey. It looks awful, really out of keeping. I think the grey window frames will come to look as dated as the dark wooden frames of the 80s and early 80s. I guess the problem is now that with sites like Pinterest and Insta EVERYONE blindly follows these trends. Navy kitchen anyone?

I actually like the grey look but I totally agree it is the avocado of the future. That's why I decided not to go for any grey when we redecorated this week. I have to remind myself there was a time I actually liked magnolia I also hate it when people muck about with what used to be beautiful, historic properties. Maybe he had a reason it needed rendering on the outside though, who knows.

My typos! Theirs.

There’s a new build near us on one of the nicest private roads in the area (which has a lovely mix of arts and crafts and a few neo Georgian home) which is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s rendered greige with grey pvc window frames and matching grey door along with grey gates and a NEW MATCHING GREY CAR (it arrived with a 71 plate when they moved in). Big triangular modern seamless windows and a grey slate roof. It is such an eyesore and in years to come will sadly become even more so.

I think they’ll regret it.

Wow! I am amazed that some see replacing all the windows as a minor job.

That first one hurts my heart 😶

There are some original internal features of eg 1930s houses that shouldn’t be removed. Picture rails. Ceiling roses. Internal doors. Any stained glass. Parquet flooring. Staircases.

so many original wooden staircases I’ve seen removed round my way, replaced with horrible glass staircases. They always always are decorated with grey carpets everywhere, massive “corner suites”, ultra modern wall hung fireplaces with massive TV hung on the wall above it. All also have the fridge handle front doors and sprayed UPVC windows. No class whatsoever and I personally would never buy a 30s house which had had all that done to it because I’d just have to de-WAG it.

I haven’t actually seen many new houses using grey walls recently. I think everyone knows that grey went well and truly out of fashion a couple of years ago. Still lots of white walls and anthracite windows around here with fridge doors though. It’s becoming too much. All the new builds look the same.

Yanbu

I call it the Swedish Sauna fashion. It’s even worse when the wood cladding is left in its natural colour as it fades almost immediately. I was thinking only today how it is today’s equivalent of the stone cladding of the seventies/early eighties. It’s bad enough on relatively modern houses but terrible on older homes.

I love uplighters outside. Why would they ever look dated?

Oh I agree I don’t approve of removing original features either, it’s a travesty, however I am not bothered if someone upcycles an old chest of drawers purchased from a car boot sale in Annie Sloan paint.

I'm definitely not a fan of the grey exteriors but I really dislike the plain red brick look as well, I think rendering it in white looks far better. Especially those ugly seventies houses.

There was a beautiful big 1930s red brick house near us - detached and in its own grounds. Has been empty for some time as it was last used by the council for childrens’ services. Drove past the other day and was horrified to see it being demolished. The brickwork was beautiful and it had round turrets with a red tiled roof and sash windows. There was a red brick wall with high gates around it which has been partly pulled down too. Can’t imagine why it’s been demolished as it looked in good repair - absolute vandalism.

We call the vertical lights “wanker lights” in our household.

My friend lived on a road (around 60 houses) all slate grey rendering and she did hers in marine blue! It looks fantastic -and everyone is wildly jealous, but it cost 25k so no one can afford to redo. Brilliant!

that is upsetting. Once they’re gone you can’t really get them back, they’re living history :(

Some traditional renders look a lot nicer than the bland new trend though. My parents live in the midlands, and there is a particular style of house there - built 20s or 30s I think - that often has a white painted pebbledash-looking render. It really suits those houses and is quite distinctive. A lot of them are now sadly getting the smooth white render and grey upvc window treatment and it’s just sad.

The only way I like this look is on houses built in the last few decades as modern bricks aren’t usually very pretty and lose nothing by being hidden.

I can't imagine anyone doing grey now it's so last year, get some colour in your life

So what? paint, windows and baths can all be changed.