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?

Do you like in Balamory?

I think you are going to have to get used to it!

As. If.

Because they arent the ones wanting a new fence? You could however buy your own fence on your land close to theirs and get a 12 ft one and paint it beige

She probably doesn't want to live near you now.

What would the compromise be, to paint half of it blue?

In my town there's quite a few streets where each of the houses are painted a different colour, it looks lovely!

I don’t live in a conservation area buts still can’t paint my house any colour I like, door colours are also restricted. Check your deeds for covenants, there deeds may be the same. I can’t parks large van or caravan on my drive or keep chickens. It will depend what yours has in it.

Because you're the one requesting it for goodness sake!

I used to live in a village where there was a row of very old, very picturesque , thatched cottages - each painted a different colour. Looked lovely.

That's so lovely, very cheerful and picturesque.

🤣you have taken me back👏👏👏

But to look lovely together they'd all need to be of a similar depth of colour, with no massive clashes. Either all pastels and sugared almond colours or all stronger and brighter. If one stood out as too dark/bright against the others it would look jarring and awful.

I know I love it tbh. House near me has no top windows and newspaper covering the bottom ones, and here they are arguing over a blue wall. Life is good

If they are perfectly happy with the fence and have no desire to change it why should they pay even half the cost?

I think you should focus on it being a good thing that they are properly maintaining the house.

It's no more rude than what you said!

I assume it is because they decided to paint their house blue without first seeking OP's permission; therefore, they must pay to remedy it.

OP should ask for compensation also for the mental suffering she experienced from looking at the blue paint.

They could counter sue for depression brought on by her beige pebble dashing.

Love it! 😂

This is a bit bonkers too. I'm by no means wealthy but I can afford decent clothes and I also still wear some clothes with holes in if I'm just pottering about at home. Not everyone cares so much about their appearance. In fact (just due to circumstances) I know a handful of genuinely old money rich/middle class folk and have noticed that they generally do not care what they look like nor what they drive (pick their kids up from the local private school in muddy wellies, holey jackets, drive old cars etc). They have nothing to prove. Being comfortable in old clothes isn't indicative of 'common' anymore than designer clothes and a neat appearance means you're well-off and a member of the bourgeoisie.

Which is obviously considerable.

This thread has made me think of the Headington Shark. Which got retrospective planning permission with the comment from the relevant planning inspector that 'any system of control must make some small place for the dynamic, the unexpected, the downright quirky'.

It is affecting her mental health and giving her the blues 😆

I really thought this post was going to be an Only Joking. But apparently not.

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One of my back bedroom windows is half covered by a temporary paper blind from when we moved in (16 years ago) and a shredded bin liner.
My neighbour is a gossipy twat though, and she has windchimes. So the window is staying that way 😆

Yes! Down with beige pebble dashing and grey windows!