AIBU to ask if I can report my neighbour's bright blue house?

[Katey83]

I live in a terraced house. My neighbours have painted the back of their house bright blue (think swimming pool blue / like the Mikanos blue). It is horrible and looms over my garden. It’s really going to spoil my enjoyment of my space to have to look at this every day. I spoke to the wife earlier this morning and said it was not to my taste and would they consider changing and she said ‘the beige of your house isn’t to my taste but it’s your house. This is my house.’ And shut the door in my face. WIBU to report them to the council? Can I even do so? Surely you can’t just paint any offensive colour and expect neighbours to live alongside it?

YABVU and a CF.

At least it is not this, eh?

There is a beautiful town in Tunisia called Sidi Bou Said where all houses and buildings are legally required to have white walls and specific blue accents for their doors, windows, and shutters, to preserve the town's famous architectural heritage and aesthetic.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/guide-to-sidi-bou-said

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Brilliant 👍!

Can you attach a picture?

THIS CANNOT BE REAL 😂

Hey OP - why don't you paint the back of your house swimming pool blue so she can look at it, and she could paint the back of her house beige in return so you can look at it?

Imagine being this much of a Hyacinth Bucket.

I do see why you’re frustrated if they are period properties and this is very not in keeping with that period or the overall neighbourhood. Equally it is their choice.

However I’m curious as to how much you’d really see it. I used to live in an Edwardian semi and really didn’t spend much time looking at next doors house even if I was down the garden. Can you add more greenery to your border, climbers on your house, and I feel sure it will still remain an oasis for you. Better blue paint than load noise.

Report! Report! I'm going to report you for not being BEIGE!!

I actually love that. I'd never do it to my own house, but I'd love it if one of my neighbours was brave enough.

I suggest turning your sun lounger round to face the other way.

Because they can paint their house whatever colour they like.

And I think that blue is gorgeous, as it goes.

One person's offensive colour is another person's perfect choice.
It's subjective , the neighbours response was correct .
Perhaps plant some leafy green plants nearby to break up the blue, it could end up looking like a nice backdrop .

That sounds more like an muti occupied grave, have he got low chains around the edges? I see a lot of these in my line of work, and I can't look at coloured gravel chips in gardens without thinking wonder who is buried there.😆

And ridiculousness is quite amusing.
It’s a wall painted blue, not a photorealistic mural of Donald Trump in fishnets and a thong.

Reporting because the colour of a house is not to your taste. Good one, troll.

My bungalow is built with bricks like Lego, and they are fading now but coloured grey,😁 yellow, light green and brick red. This is probably outing but who cares.

That would certainly "misalign" my "visuals"!
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Do the family look like this?

https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-89d30dcb-5584-434b-b990-beb3ccc0dce4

If my neighbour did this I would paint my house buttercup yellow, that would look really good and I would hope my other neighbour would pick a good colour too. There are quite a few multicolor streets In Bristol imo it looks brilliant.

Why was it rude? Because she didn't bow down and agree to repaint her house to your liking?

That sounds amazing 😀

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As soon as I saw the title my brain started singing.

I'd pay to see that. 😂

I think it sounds lovely. There are a couple of terraces near me where each house is painted a different colour. England is so dull.

Just sit with your back to it OP then you don't see it. Not difficult.