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?

I don’t think you can do anything about the paint, but I think if they have pebbledash you’re legally entitled to burn the house to the ground. IANAL.

With "He's a lout" and "This isn't Bristol", I'm surprised you can even see with given your head is so far up your bum!

Surely it’s ok to feel a bit annoyed that my lovely garden will now not be such a sanctuary for me

There's really no reason it should destroy your enjoyment of your garden. Just ignore it, it'll stop being new eventually. Plant tall plants, create a new focus point, etc. This is very dramatic and hyacinth bucket I have to say!

@OttersOnAPlane Penelope Keith was a wonderful actress and she made Margo an iconic character - a byword for suburban snobbery. It’s hard to believe that these programmes were made around fifty years ago.

Are you Hyacinth Bucket?

It's VERY like this, though thankfully not at the front.

But I think you've got no choice. By all means speak to the council but unless it's listed or conservation they can have it as they please.

I mean if it had 'fuck off' in giant letters then maybe not but it's just a blue wall.

I used to love going through Bristol on the train, because there used to be a monkey swinging across the side of one of the houses on the approach to the station. I haven't been that way for a long time, doubt it's still there, but it brightened my journey up.

If you stand in your garden looking ahead, and slowly rotate, it will only be in your view for less than a quarter of the time, and no one goes outside to look up and sideways at the neighbours house! You normally spend time looking at your own plants, your kids, and if you're v lucky, a nice view of fields or something in some direction. This is not going to ruin your life, look at stuff you like looking at, and get on with life.

No! Hyacinth was funny and friendly. Also very neighbourly.

Consider painting your house bright orange so they compliment each other.

Can you not just angle your patio furniture/chairs the other direction?

Ah, I get it. You think he's common, right?

Don’t get attached to views you don’t own! YABU

Same I love watching people argue about paint

I think you've got to the root of the problem here. Clearly she thinks she's naicer than him.

The neighbours are free to paint their house blue if they’d like. It’s becoming more popular to have a bright coloured house, and not something that would be deemed offensive by the council.
Although it would really annoy me if they hadn’t painted the front to match!! Depending on how friendly they were, I might ask if they had plans to do front too.
You’ve made your life incredibly awkward by knocking on your neighbours door being so rude.

Nooo! I bet she's got a grey kitchen island and a black and white bathroom though.

It's funny when people get so pretentious, and so riled!

Its not up for discussion. You arent her spouse or LL so your opinion is irrelevant.

I think her response was perfect.

Don’t be ridiculous. This thread is the gift that keeps on giving. Many of us have said that we probably wouldn’t like the bright blue paint but there really is nothing that can be done about it. However, it is the sheer snobbery that drips through every single one of @Katey83‘s posts that keeps us reading for each new instalment. I think this thread should go into classics.

This made me laugh. I’m sorry you are upset but really - can you complain to the council because the neighbours painted their house a colour you don’t like?! Can they complain that they don’t like the colour of yours?! Madness.

Karen behaviour

Just out of sheer curiosity would your compromise have included you picking up the financial tab to repaint the place?

I don't think a conversation about it would have been in any way productive. You don't like it. They DO like it. That is all.