AIBU to think teal is an awful choice for interiors?

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The colour teal - it is the work of the devil!!! I have no idea why this colour is so popular because it is just GROSS 🤮

watching Interior Design Masters last night and was like ‘Sophie Noooooooo’.

Im not sure why I find it quite so appalling!
No offence if you’ve decorated your house in teal, I’m no interior designer and my home is pretty average but …. Shudder

I find this so odd- why would people care what colour is "in" or out? I use colours in my home that I personally like, I could give a flying toss if they're trending in home and garden magazine. That seems ridiculous- well, I love the colour teal but sadly its "out" according to some vague people ive never met so I shall have to use another colour I dont want 🤣

Everyone would hate my kitchen then! I have grey cupboards (two shades - not fifty lol) and grey worktops and floor tiles. Two of the walls have teal tiles (only half walls really as there are wall cupboards above) and I have a teal roller blind. I also have similar in the adjoining breakfast/dining room with TWO teal blinds. I absolutely love it!

The teal hallway and leopard print ceiling was way too much for my liking, I preferred Leah’s colour palette to Sophie’s. Much more sophisticated, absolutely stunning, Sophie’s would give me a headache, far too much for me, 🤗

I like it on cushions and soft furnishings but not on walls. I painted a room teal once and it was a bit like living inside a swimming pool.

Love orange and yellow, though!

Oh I didn’t mean it is out of date, I just meant my own hallway is due a repaint. I don’t believe colours have an expiration date and I think trends are made up shit to make us spend more money on things that, by the very nature of it, should last a long, long time.
I actually spent a whole module of my masters degree arguing this.

Edited to add: @queenofcustard, this is what I mean, sorry I was clumsy with my words.

I like teal as an accent colour but not the way Sophie had done it in that hallway in the Final of IDM.

I have a teal sofa with yellow cushions and bright patterned cushions; it looks great against my very light walls.

I would say having a teal painted wall requires high ceilings in a traditional Victorian or Georgian style tenement or house. My friend painted her tenement flat wall in teal and against the traditional white cornicing it looked amazing. She position a yellow traditional armchair against it and it looked great. She was slightly my inspiration tbh when sofa shopping a few years later! However I knew I wouldn't do the walls that colour as our ceilings aren't high.

Each and to their own and all that though! I absolutely hate mirrored furniture or interior decor that is just various shades of grey/cream, but I wouldn't tell my best friend this as her house is entirely like that and it's her favoured style.

Sophie’s hall way was not good, but it wasn’t just as it was teal it was simply the wrong colour in that space. Teal can look nice, but it is never going to be my choice.

The teal she chose was brilliant. Especially without mustard, which is not, imo, a good combination.

I have teal sofas. The delivery men said it was nice to see a colourful sofa instead of grey grey and more grey.

My bedroom is painted teal and plum. I love it. I don't care if it's not trendy, I chose my favourite colours. It's not too dark in the day, I have nice big windows, and it's very cosy at night.

I thought Lia’s living room actually had terrible colours and just didn’t work at all. The blue of her sofas really didn’t work, and the whole room was a mess. The dining room and bedrooms were great, though, and I guess that swung it for her, but I would have picked Sophie.

I think that Sophie's teal + animal print ceiling was just too much! The teal was nice, it just would have worked better in a smaller, lighter space.

teal is a beautiful colour like a peacock

I love it - one of my fave colours but you need to have the right house to really pull it off. In my old house we had one wall strong teal in our bedroom, but didn't have the room sizes, ceiling heights and light levels to pull off more than that without it being oppressive.

This house has humongous ceiling heights (stops DH being a smug git who used to delight in painting ceilings without needing to get a stepladder out), big rooms and loads of natural light - my bedroom is teal, my office is teal (because we over-bought bedroom paint basically) and I love it.

We've got strong colours throughout the house though - because I finally have room sizes I can get away with doing that - and I couldn't live with the previous owner's Judgemental Owl wallpaper any longer.

For anyone who didn't see it:

Lia Gold Wins BBC's Interior Design Masters With A Bold, Botanical Holiday Cottage Makeover

Yeah this is how we've managed to pull off teal walls - would not do it in a 1980s semi, but this house is Victorian and the ceiling heights are amazing and it really works against the cornicing and wood panelling we've got in places.

You don't go far wrong with interior design if you pick according to the place you're working with rather than riding fads is my view.

Sorry 😔 I should have been more diplomatic because you’re absolutely right that everyone has different tastes and likes different things.

I love teal in all variants but that was more like turquoise. The ‘burgundy’ ceiling also looked really bright - they often seem to have issues with the paint colours on that show ending up way off what they expected. You’d think they’d allow testers or at least have someone colour match the paint from the designer’s vision board to avoid all those garish colours. The leopard print ceiling was hideous but they knew what they were getting if they kept the queen of animal print in for the final at a safari park! The snake and insect wallpaper was fun but I would not be able to sleep in there! But then Lia’s hallways were so dull, it’s a shame as the rooms were lovely.

It looks better in that photo than it did on screen to be fair! Looked much brighter and shinier than that on TV.

I have a darker, bluer version of teal on my living room wall BUT it’s a south facing room with a huge bay window. I have high ceilings with a deep picture rail and high skirting boards all painted white, pale pine floorboards, and lots of bright art on the wall - so the room is very bright in spite of the dark walls. The sofas and curtains are red and the rug is a red/blue/cream Persian type rug. The furniture is all vintage mid century teak (Ercol/Nathan). I suspect it’s a love it or hate it room - luckily we love it 😍

On the other hand I hate the colour olive. I don’t know why. I just think it’s so ugly, but my daughter absolutely loves it!

I quite like teal in the right room. I wasn't sure about it on Sophie's interior design but that was overshadowed by my dislike of the animal print ceiling. Hideous!

I have a dark teal downstairs bathroom with white tiles on the bottom half. Looks great in there especially with bright pink orchids on the shelf. But I agree that in a main room it would be overbearing.

I love teal. We did our bedroom in it and I think it’s gorgeous.

Teal and mustard would make my heart sink.

The images in the article Iinked are definitely not to my taste.

Same here, we have teal curtains in our living room, against pale walls.